To think nine bedrooms is a bit much?

[houseymcmousey]

Someone I work with has just bought a nine bedroom house for two adults and one child to live in. They aren't having more children or having anyone else move in.

Just out of interest, how big would you go if money was no object? For me I think 5 or 6 just to have a couple of guest rooms but nine seems bonkers to me. It has enough space downstairs for a playroom and office so they aren't using them for that. Just thinking of all the bed linen makes me feel faint.

Friends have a 28 bedroom house.
They bought it for the view.
They only use one wing of the building.

I have pondered this when looking at property porn. There are some lovely houses that have 8+ bedrooms and it’s just too much for me. I don’t think the house would ‘feel’ right if you only had 3 people living there. I’d have no problem with a 5 bed house that had a separate converted barn or cottage with three bedrooms. You could shut up that space and only only use it for guests.

If it was up to DS 1 for me 1 for him and as many as possible for lego. I think he would go past 9

With one child I wouldn't want more than 4 bedrooms max.

16 bogs though.

A 9 bedroom house would have a lovely huge downstairs area.
Nice if they want to move elderly parents in later on in life- you could convert some of the spare bedrooms into a lounge etc.
I'd personally want a max of five.

I think it’s easy to use up space with his and hers dressing rooms and ensuites, guest bedrooms, maybe a treatment room for when a beautician or hairdresser comes etc on top of the library, music and cinema rooms downstairs etc.

Personally, I wouldn’t go bigger than what a cleaner can manage in a day as I’d hate constantly having staff at home.

The bedrooms will easily get full when family and friends visit.

A friends house has six bedrooms (my flat entire flat is six rooms 😂). He bought it as the downstairs is a good size and it has a good size garden. It does have an amazing downstairs.

Hmm, just DH, me and DS, but we often host so DB and SIL, 2 DNs, PIL , my parents that's easily 7 occupied and then DH would love a hobby room and I'd like an upstairs snug/library/reading room, as DS gets older would be nice for him to have a study. If I had the money I could fill the rooms

What's the point of wondering, they may be exaggerating, or being inaccurate just for the joy of boasting calling a study, a games room, a dressing room etc "bedrooms".

Or they may have a "Granny annex" and are counting those rooms in as well.

If money were no object, then why wouldn't you buy a nice big house, it would mean you could have a family over to stay and you aren't all on top of each other.

You can never have too much space imo.

It begs the question if you work with them, why they need to work if they have a 9 bedroom house. That sort of investment needs serious amounts of resource, not only to purchase but to fund and maintain. I expect they have 4 kids all being privately educated....

Their families all live locally but I guess they might have friends staying sometimes. I hadn't even thought of the energy bills although I suppose you could keep some rooms closed up most of the time.

Tbh I would give 3 to a teen/preteen DS one bedroom, one for study, one lounge/chill out space for him and his friends

I can understand wanting more than one bathroom, and perhaps using one bedroom as a work space, but I could never consider nine.

@JamieLeeCurtains

16 bogs though.

They're responsible for all that bog roll shortage during lockdown, damn it.

They can host all their relatives at the same time, surely.

Sounds great for Christmas.

Maybe they thought they needed the space after going through confinement?

Maybe they’ve just fallen in love with the house, can afford it and want it on that basis? Rooms could be quite small so they might plan to knock through a couple to make a gorgeous master suite

Only if I had to clean it myself. I don't really care how other people live.

It begs the question if you work with them, why they need to work if they have a 9 bedroom house. That sort of investment needs serious amounts of resource, not only to purchase but to fund and maintain. I expect they have 4 kids all being privately educated....

They both work full time and they definitely only have one child. I know them quite well having worked with the one for many years (he has a very good job in senior management but I'm pretty sure it's his DW who's the higher earner as she runs her own business)

@InDeoEstMeaFiducia

Yes, YABU. This is none of your business. If I had more money, I'd have an even larger house. I have a dear friend who has no kids and a 4 bedroom house. She's fabulous. I'm happy for her.

What exactly was the need to get nasty?

Everybody else seems to have understood what OP really meant with her post and replied in a decent manner. Have you got some kind of a chip on your shoulder?

Lets see,

1 bedroom for us , 2 for guests; 1 dressing room, 2 offices, 2 workrooms, and a junkroom.

I NEED 9 bedrooms.

One for me, one each for the DC, one as a sewing room, one as a dressing room, one for guests, and two to bung sundry crap in. I think that makes nine.

Six for me. There’s one for each of the three kids, a spare and a dressing toom

Bedroom for DH, bedroom for me (to escape snoring/duvet hogging), studies for both of us, bedroom for DS, a couple of guest rooms for GPs... Already at 7 ! We might want a couple more in case of any more DCs in the future...

In fact, 9 suddenly doesn't seem enough... Gym, craft room etc... And what about the live in staff you'd need if you didn't want to spend your life cleaning!

6: one for me and DH, one for each child, an office each for me and DH, and a guest room