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?

Ours is quite big on the main floor but the upstairs is small because it's in the roof so only part of the space can be used so two bedrooms and a toilet and a small clothes room upstairs but downstairs we have a medium size kitchen, study, big lounge and a playroom. Have a basement too which is where most of the excess 'stuff' gets stored (one room is a store room, then there's the music room, then shower and sauna and washing machine are down there too.

But I've lived in tiny homes too so can feel your pain. When DD was born I lived in a studio flat (36 square metres) and it was really cluttered and horrid. Later on lived in a one bedroom flat but that was much better because me and DD moved there with nothing so there was nothing to clutter the place up!

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms upstairs (master bedroom has an ensuite and two other bedrooms have a Jack and Jill style bathroom)

Lounge, dining room, kitchen, playroom, bathroom and maid's room with an ensuite downstairs. (We live in the Middle East - maid's room gets used as a utility room and ensuite gets used as the cat's room!)

It's me, DH, DS (and the cat) and DC2 is due next summer.

We moved here last summer from a 2 bedroom apartment and although it's lovely to have more room (especially a playroom), I feel like I'm forever cleaning and tidying and our utility bills are a lot more expensive (especially the AC)

4 bed smallish detached, 1 main bathroom, en suite and downstairs loo. Lounge, dining room, kitchen and utility room. We’re about to convert our garage into another room - a second lounge for children- which I’m a little worried about as we’ll lose a lot of storage. My biggest bugbear is the hallway is tiny and gets cluttered easily. There’s 4 of us, 2 adults, 2 children ( although one is 14 and taller than the adults ) and 1 dog

Purpose built, Edwardian two bedroomed flat. The Estate Agents would describe it as a maisonette-imagine a terraced house with 2 front doors, and you've got it. There's only the 2 of us so it's fine. Living room, one double, one single, bathroom, kitchen diner, small back yard (think Corrie.)

Op. Are you going to come back?

Three bed for six of us! Old farmhouse though so the rooms are big and there is storage and two proper bathrooms. I think it's about 200 square metres, apparently the average three bed is half that which would be a challenge for us.

Ours is big enough but I'd like to eventually move the bathroom upstairs, do a loft conversion so dd doesn't have a box room and turn old bathroom into a utility room. . Our previous house had 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms but zero living space or storage- I much prefer the current set up.

1960s 4 bed detached, loads of space, has been extended over the years too. Only thing which is annoying is that we don't have a downstairs loo.

I think a lot of houses are unprepared for 'stuff' particularly shoes and coats. We live in a country with 4 seasons so we all have winter coats, summer coats, wellies, sandals etc. Lots of people have buggies, umbrellas - but no houses seem to be built with a really big porch.

3 bed mobile home bathroom, shower room, kitchen, utility room, there's 5 of us including 3 teenagers but my 18 yr old sleeps outside in a caravan. It's perfectly safe here private land so I know she's safe.

A bungalow 4 double bedrooms 4 reception rooms 4 bathrooms and a large kitchen, we also have a large study as well and half an acre of garden.

It’s a bit big for us now that why we might move, but it was brilliant when the children were small as we made one of the bedrooms into a playroom so most of the toys stayed in there, now they older we reverted it back to a bedroom. Thinking about it we could of made the dinning room a playroom as we never really use it as we always eat in the kitchen.

3bed semi 60s build. two rooms downstairs and tiny kitchen. 3 small bedrooms and a one bathroom. downstairs toilet.
It has more room at the front than inside and does get cluttered with 4 adults, but i do like this house, even though it needs work.

Recently went from a small 2 bed and a box room terrace in Sarf London to a whopping 4 bed and playroom house in. Scotland. The extra space makes a massive difference to us, esp as DS has ADHD and really needs to fling himself around physically. So we have a room with a crash mat, exercise balls, sensory toys etc. Like others on this thread, we went for a tall skinny townhouse to make this affordable as small footprint - lots of people didn't want it because of all the stairs

90's built 3 bedroom semi.
Very long hall, kitchen at the front, side door leading to garden ( massive )
Pantry cupboard off hall, living room across the back of house, stairs go up from the hall and aren't straight in design. Small bathroom, small bedroom at front for dd, 2 decent size bedrooms at back for us and for ds.
We moved from a much smaller 2 bed semi so felt bigger for a while.
I would love a 5 bedroom detached, a room for everyone plus an office

Every time I think that my place is small I think of my friend who was brought up in an small upstairs flat. Her mum had 4 children all close together. Tiny, tiny kitchen. One of the bedrooms was chopped in half to put a bathroom in. She slept in a very small bedroom in bunk beds with one chest of drawers between 2 of them because that's all you could get in the room.

1930 semi. 3 beds but one is tiny as has the airing cupboard in it. Entrance is a tiny square leading straight on to stairs so no storage space. Downstairs is a kitchen diner - reasonable size - and a lounge, toilet and bathroom. Saving grace is that we have a large garden so sheds give us extra storage space.

All in all - could do with more space as I have four children but it’s big enough to work with 🙂.

I've just moved to a smaller new build 3 bed.
It's in a very naive area though so I was willing to downsize for that.
I've never lived in such a good area so I was willing to declutter for that.

falange. Exactly.

My father was one of 8 children, they grew up in a house with two rooms. One was a kitchen/living area, the other was a sleeping room.

Started off in a 1 bed flat in an awful area.
Moved to a 3 bed semi with box room.
Now in a 4 bed detached. It's taken nearly 10 years of hard work! And very grateful for what I have. And have 2 dc, and doggie

Ok my gran was one of 12, they lived in a 2 bed back to back house!
I remember her saying that all her older brothers had to work nights as this was the only way they could get a bed, i.e. Sleeping during the day then out of the house so that the others could sleep.
They all got married very young too and moved out.

I have a 3 bed new build (7 years old)

Has small square kitchen (no room for table) and a huge lounge/dinner.

Upstairs has 3 good size bedrooms 2 double and a single.

Its a ok size house but I am single with 4 children so bedrooms are bit of a squeeze, especially the smallest as it has my two youngest 3 and 10 in and tons of toys, after Xmas I'm swapping rooms with them as I can just fit a double bed and dresser in the small room.

In a ideal would I would love a extra bedroom and a big kitchen big enough to have a table in, would happily take a smaller lounge.

But to be honest it's social housing I was given after my divorce and I left abusive ex so I'm just very grateful to have it and I'm getting good at doing things to make rooms work and storage etc

To who said they don't like coats shoes in porch, ours is a funny shape t shape so Dh installed two shelves which hold all the bags plus wellies with a basket for scarves and hats and we have a really tall shoe rack by the doors that lead to the front room which holds so many shoes, it's so handy to as kids shoes are always where they should be so out the door quickly.

I love my house but I have started to outgrow it since I started a business. I have a two bed terrace with a lovely large bathroom upstairs and a large garden. I just have nowhere to store my business stuff. We were fine before space wise before my business stuff started spreading everywhere. There are 3 of us in our house. I'm just saving to buy a bigger project at the moment as I want to stay in the area and most of the bigger homes are owned by older people which need some tlc.

It's me who doesn't like clutter in the porch.
In our house shoes live upstairs.