To ask how big is your house?

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I'm grateful for what we have but I feel like I'm suffocating day to day.

We have a terraced house consisting of a small kitchen and lounge downstairs, a master bedroom, box room and tiny bathroom upstairs.
There's me, OH, DS (3), newborn DS and DDog.

There's no porch or wide hallways to have extra storage.
You walk straight into the kitchen where all the post and tat gets dumped on the nearest worktop or the table, no room for coat rack so jackets get dumped on the kitchen chairs, lounge has huge toybox as there's no room to keep DSs toys in his bedroom as its so small and now I'm having to figure out how to fit 2 DCs in there. The car seat for DS2 is in the lounge also as there's nowhere else to keep it.

There's clutter everywhere you turn despite trying to keep on top of it and it's a constant cycle of trying to cut down on stuff etc.
It makes me feel really down and I struggle to clear my head, it makes the days with the kids really difficult as sometimes you have to walk over stuff or trip over a bouncer or toy to get to the other side of the room.
I'm dreaming of a nice 3 bedroom house with an open plan kitchen and diner and a nice big lounge, oh and a utility room

AIBU to ask how big is your house and if you're happy with it?

Me Dh and two young boys. Two bed detached bungalow.

Small porch that stores hoover coats scarves bags and shoes.

Fairly big front room with fold up dining table

One double bedroom for me and Dh

Small single room, kids currently sharing with bunks but eldest will be moving to a cabin in our back garden so each will have their own room

Bathroom is all right size for us, bath and shower and stores laundry basket and has a big cupboard for towels etc

Kitchen is small

Garage with workshop that has our tumble dryer and washing machine

Front garden can have three cars and back garden medium I would say

If there was no room for a cabin we would of moved

We have a loft to which stores loads of shite

too big downstairs

too small upstairs

one bathroom - 2 teenage girls + me and small girl

Study and conservatory barely used

tiny 4th bedroom

Pollaidh

OP, I visited some friends in a small, two-bedroom council flat the other week. There are four adults living there - parents and older teen children.

The storage was amazing. Literally every wall had shelves and cupboards. Space over doorways was used, stuff was hanging from rods that they'd installed, every door had hooks on it.

Siblings shared a room with high rise beds with storage underneath.

It felt very cosy, rather than cluttered, because there was clearly a place for everything and everything in its place.

Shelves, hooks and wall mounted cupboards are the way forward.

3 bed 3 reception 3 bathroom with utility room, large garage & enclosed garden off road parking could fit about 6 cars. I love it but would love a box room for ironing, runnng machine - too many spiders in the garage!

Because the OP wanted to know how big other people's houses were?

I posted how big mine was, but also that it's only that size because we built an extension. The house was also a complete wreck when we bought it - we'd never in a million years been able to afford it otherwise.

Surely this gives the OP some ideas on other ways of extending her living space, rather than looking at houses which are simply bigger?

Op, the box room, is it the width of a double bed?

I have friends who had a similar set up to you and switched rooms - so had the box room for them. It was literally the width of their bed with an inch either side and two foot at the end, so they had to crawl into bed from the end...and they had their wardrobes in the hall. But then it meant the dc had the decent sized room and at least fit all their stuff in, leaving downstairs clearer.

Very big, and I am very grateful we managed to buy it. The area isn't "naice" but we have lovely neighbours, good schools and we feel safe.

Six bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 lounges, kitchen diner, small utility, basement. It's an end terrace.

Because the OP wanted to know how big other people's houses were

She's very clearly struggling. So posting suggestions and asking questions about options she can have to improve her circumstances is better than boasting about how much more than her you have.

Things like " can you afford to move""can you extend" "what storage options have you tried""yes we live like this and this works".

This thread is awful.

I have a 2 bed 1930's maisonette and I'm single, 2 daughters with 10 year age gap and have a dog & 2 cats. My kitchen is small but perfectly formed except for lack of room for a dishwasher, a decent, not huge, living room with dining table and sofa bed (where I sleep!), 2 decent, again not huge, bedrooms which house DD9 & DD20, narrow hall and nice sized bathroom.
Would love a room of my own but made the choice, 5 years ago, to give girls a room each as there is such an age gap and I don't want to force eldest out. She has a BF, they are both students and I want to give them some space as he doesn't have privacy at his family home. Smallest daughter's room has built in wardrobes which house my clothes.
House's redeeming features are the bath (my sanctuary!), back garden which is great when the weather is decent and the high-ish ceilings.
OP have you thought of getting a small double for box (or even a custom built one assuming the doors open out) and giving kids the big room?
Decluttering is imperative. Crap accumulates but you don't need most of it!
It does seem hard at times but it'll all work out, good luck and enjoy your wee family!

After growing up overcrowded I have always gone for a too big house. We will downsize to give DC a deposit.
Upstairs four bed, two bathrooms
Downstairs: massive kitchen diner, conservatory, two sitting rooms, utility, office, loo.
Lots of parking, decent garden, a good distance between the neighbours

Our house also feels very cramped at times! Mostly because my DS is at uni but we can’t exactly kick him out of his room, so that’s just an empty room that can’t really be used (although DD has been taking advantage of his double bed). DDs 12 and 13 share an average sized room, DDs 5 and 2 share a (quite small) room and then we have a box room that will be inhabited by DC who’s due in February. It’s spread over three floors so our bottom floor has just two rooms - a living room and a kitchen/dining(/dump everything when you get home from school) room. Worst of all, only one proper bathroom between all 6/7 of us! (And a small toilet room, but that doesn’t help on a morning when everyone wants a shower. We had to create a rota!!)

And terraced houses are a pain - our neighbours are lovely but on one side there are 5 kids 8 and under and the crying never ends, and on the other side there’s a professional flautist, whose music is lovely for the first hour...

A 3 bed detached barn conversion in a village. Downstairs is a large dining kitchen and a big sitting room.

Upstairs we have a bathroom, 2 double bedrooms, one with an ensuite and a single which we use as an office ('study' sounds a bit poncy for Leicestershire).

Outside is a small garden and standing space for several cars.

Ours is quite big for 4 of us we built on my husbands land 3 downstairs bedrooms 1 ensuite utility room kitchen bathroom sitting room huge hotpress. Upstairs 2 massive bedrooms both with ensuite it is an absolute nightmare to clean the whole house.

FGS it would probably cheer you up if I PM'd you a pic of my sitting room :)

Even the estate agents said it made him come over all queer just looking at it (it's full of absolutely everything and I can't even find my armchair, it's in the corner at the back).

Tackle it slowly, look into storage methods. One step at a time, you're overwhelmed.

No

Having looked again anonymous and bluntness are right

We have lounge, dining room, kitchen and shower room downstairs. 2 bedrooms and an ensuite upstairs. Small terrace, but it’s the perfect size for dd and I at the moment and cheap as chips!

Would kill for some more storage space / the ability to chuck out clutter though.

you sound really depressed with it, when mine were young we lived in a really small place, had 3 children, and it was pretty hellish, but things will get better especially as they get older. If you have only one box room though you will need somewhere bigger to put the baby, are you in a position to move? or at least to make plans to move? or are you able to extend your property at all?

We live in a 4 bed new build that we built a few years ago. 4 double bedrooms 1 with ensuite, 1 with play room, 1 family bathroom. Then downstairs is a big open plan kitchen/diner/living room with separate utility and shower room. We have plenty outside space but we live in the country. I agree with what others have said though, it is a total pain in the ass to clean and i feel like I am constantly cleaning bathrooms. It is the right size for us but if I did it again I would remove a bathroom!

FGS

There have been a few suggestions...not many....on here

Would any of them work

pegs are a good idea for getting even things like chairs off the floor which can make a difference

I agree that storage is key and above door book shelves (or boxes with junk/stationery) are useful.

A much bigger house since we moved to Oz. We left the UK where we had a two bedroom local authority flat.

Now we live in a 1930s bungalow with two reception rooms, high ceilings, three beds, large kitchen and "sun room" plus separate laundry.

The sunroom is really a ponced up long porch though. We use it for dog bed and shoes.

Ours is about 5000 sq ft. It's a beautiful, beautiful house but it's too big for us and costs a small fortune to get it marginally above freezing.

We're downsizing because I'm so sick of being cold.

625 square feet.

Just moved from a 1 bed flat with no garden and having to park on a main road to a 3 bed (well 2 bedrooms and office) with garden and driveway... it's me, DP, 3 year old, 10 month old and cat.

We were slowly going insane being cooped up in a small space, DP works from home, I'm a SAHM... balancing noise while baby was asleep in bedroom in the daytime.. which was right next to the living room where the 3 year old played. Having to whisper in the evening as baby was asleep in living room with us while 3 year old in bedroom. The older one had a slide so we used to get it out and have it in the hallway!

We feel lighter. Just having a shed to store outdoor things in, a back garden to sit out in, a washing line, the two bedrooms are upstairs away from the noise, DP can now work in an office instead of perching in the kitchen next to the kettle, we can unload the car calmly instead of trying to get shopping + kids across a busy main road, the cat can now go outside etc etc etc... I hope you get some more space soon and you are a bloody trooper for managing it so far. You cope and cope but when you do move you realise how bad it was.