to think a 1.80m x 1.90m room should not be called a bedroom?!

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Just that. We are currently looking to buy and so many of the houses coming onto the market have a 3rd bedroom that wouldn’t even fit a single bed in!?

In my mind if it can’t fit at least a single bed in it, then it shouldn’t be called a bedroom!!

An EA told me that as long as a bed will technically fit in a room, even if that means nothing else will fit in it will be labelled as that size. So a room that could fit a double bed in but no wardrobe or bedside tables could still be claimed as a double.

There is a house near us with a 3rd bedroom with the dimensions of 1.1m x 3.4m. Ridiculous. It’s a storage cupboard.

YANBU. We are currently trying to move and I have been disappointed by so many houses. The clever photos don't help. One was a '4' bedroom house. Master bedroom you could have cart wheeled around. But they had created the '4th' bedroom by chopping a reasonable sized room in half with a stud wall. So one mahoosive room and 3 tiny tiny ones. I actually felt cross when I left there!

Used to be 70 sq ft minimum for a single and 100sqft for a double back in the day!

And don't get me started on the one with the ensuite IN the bedroom. No partition. No screen. No wall. Just a toilet, shower and sink in a bedroom. Wtf. And you couldn't put a wall or screen up because of the way it was designed.

My room, growing up, fitted my bed. The was it. It had an airing cupboard, which dad converted to a wardrobe.

I always check the small bedroom dimensions first when look at houses, I dont want my kids in one so small.

There is minimum sizes that classify doubles and singles but estate agents pretend they’ve never heard of them 🙄

Once viewed a house that had a small double chopped into two singles with stud wall down middle of window and access through one bedroom to another and the EA still insisted it was a 3 bed instead of a 2.

I live in HA property and the 'third bedroom' can fit a toddler bed in against the radiator and a small strip of floor stand on once the door is open. That's it.

Half of these properties have a bigger bathroom! It’s so odd!

We’ve been to view a couple (no dimensions of rooms) but whatever camera they were using made them look double the size

These are designed by men who think a 3rd bedroom would only ever be a study for his home office.

When we house hunted we just learned to read it as 2 bedrooms and a box room if it said 3 bedrooms and 3 bedrooms and a box room if it said 4 bedrooms. It's accurate most of the time.

Our last house when built in 1977 was 2 doubles and 2 singles.
When we sold 40 years on it was 4 doubles!

And don't get me started on the one with the ensuite IN the bedroom. No partition. No screen. No wall. Just a toilet, shower and sink in a bedroom.

Shouldn't that just be a large bathroom. How rediculous

I wouldn't consider a room of that size a bedroom. No doubt, there can be a use for it but it's not a bedroom. A bedroom should definitely accommodate at least a single bed and I would expect to be able to walk around that bed comfortably without having to squeeze myself around it.

Yes! I 100% agree, so frustrating.

Must be our area but all the places we viewed, you could fit a double into all the rooms. our current place is a 3 bed and you could squeeze a double bed into the 3rd room. in fact, there was one in it when we viewed.

They are mostly older houses we looked at tho. had anyone noticed a difference depending on when the house was built?

My bedroom growing up was that size, it’s very typical in houses built in the 30s. Thankfully I had a wardrobe built into the wall over the stairs and a sort of part bay window so used the big windowsill as a shelf. I had a slim chest of drawers which had to double as a desk and shelves on the wall above then bed- that had to be built in situ! With no space to make a mess it was always spotless at least. And yes the bathroom was much bigger than my room which I’ve never understood, but assume it’s cheaper and easier to have a bathroom above the kitchen.

You would all hate my house then . My daughters room is 2.6 x 2.1m, however that includes the recess under the stairs. It doesn't have an external window, just borrowed light from the bathroom in the front. However, this has been a blessing in disguise as she is very little. Putting curtains on the borrowed light window means we can make it cave-like and early morning light doesn't wake her up.

Regulations around size changed under Thatcher.

@Mizydoscape that’s still considerably bigger than the one I’ve mentioned though. I’d still consider that a single bed size room

My parents 1970’s HA house has a 3rd bedroom that fits a bed and nothing else. The bathroom is bigger. It does make you wonder what complete dickhead designed it definitely a man

Agreed. You can't even get a bed in it.

My 3 bed semi was built in 1960 and all 3 bedrooms fit a king size bed plus other furniture

We went to see a new build 4 bed. The 4th room wasn't big enough to get a single bed in it. It lost a couple of feet in length where it went over the stairs so you could have built in a full sized single. It should be described as a study.

Is it exactly 1.9 m long? A single bed would be about 195 x 95 cm so might fit? Our box room is 2.9 x 1.7 m, so a metre longer but slightly narrower and it easily fits a single bed.