To think 2m by 2m is not a bedroom

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Advertised as a 3 bed house. What could you really use a 2x2 room for?

thats a box room you would only get a single bed in there with three feet down the length of the bed so no room for any furniture

For goodness sake, it fits a bed and either a wardrobe or a chest of drawers. Don't buy it if it's not big enough for you, but thousands of people manage to use box rooms as a bedroom 🙄

If it had a window it can be counted as a bedroom. but it's an office or walk in wardrobe at best

You could use it as a single room. We have a room that’s 4m x 2m that we’ve variously used as a nursery, office and now a spare bedroom.

If a bed fits in it, it's a bedroom.

For God's sake, pretty much every 1930s 3-bed semi has a room like that above the stairs. Nit everyone lives in a 3000 sq ft Palace. Many, many, many of us will have had a 6ft x 6ft bedroom well into our teens and early 20s. Bed, single wardrobe and slim chest of drawers, job's a good'un.

It’s classified as a nursery room, or a few people say a box room. Personally, I would not consider it, a room. Even for a child, it may be suitable now but soon there won't be enough space for their belongings

Are you very new to househunting? YABU. It's shit but it is what it is and plenty of houses with smaller rooms than this are advertised as three bedrooms. 🤷‍♀️ It'll still have more downstairs floorspace than a two-bed. Just scroll on past those ones to the ones that suit your requirements.

Gosh, what sort of room did my daughter have in our last house then if not a bedroom? 🤔

All 1930s houses have them. Ours over the years has been a nursery, toddlers bedroom, spare room with a single bed, walk in wardrobe and is currently a WFH office. Next door’s 20 something daughter is still using it as a bedroom! It would make a fabulous en suite though, if I could only kick DH out of it and into a garden office.

Yes loads of houses have them

I lived in a room that size with everything I owned for a year when a student - ate in it, slept in it, worked in it, had friends round in it, everything. So yes, its a bedroom

In much of Europe you cannot call something a bedroom if it is below 9sqm. So that wouldn't be considered a bedroom.

But houses there tend to be valued by the number of square metres rather than the number of bedrooms.

Nursery/Study assuming there is a window.

If no window, a walk in wardrobe.

Yup

This was my room as a teen ... worked fine for me. Plus I only had to stretch a little in any direction to reach things

My DCs bedrooms aren't much bigger than that. Roughly 2x3m. They have plenty of room for what they need. Which is just as well as I can't afford anything bigger.

Actually my childhood bedroom was about the same size. It was fine. The house we moved to before I left home was even smaller plus had a built in cupboard so there was literally only one place a bed could fit. To be fair i hated it.

Agreed that it's a box room and typical but it is worth knowing that in some other countries there are minimum room sizes and 4m2 would not qualify. It's shit really. I was surprised to learn that in NYC (hardly a city of palaces for most people) it has to be 80 square feet and have a window to be a bedroom. It's to protect people from landlords advertising closets as bedrooms, which they totally would if they could get away with it!

We have one like that. When we took in Ukrainians last year the council inspected it and said it was too small to legally be a bedroom.

2x2 is very small, it's not the standard size you get for the third room in a lot of 3 bed semis which is more like 2.5x 2.5 (which is 6.25m2 rather than 4m2, so quite a lot bigger)

We only really use ours as an occasional guest room.

I can beat that - saw a 2 bed flat on Rightmove last week where the second “bedroom” was only 1.9m wide - more like a corridor. They wanted £750k for it (ridiculously overpriced even for the area, there are many cheaper, nicer flats on RM).

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/135718910#/?channel=RES_BUY

I lived in a bedroom that was so small we had to remove the door and saw my bed in 2, it doubed up as the dining room too... not really but it is funny hearing people competitively describe their small bedrooms. We rejected the teeny tiny 3rd bedroom houses, I mean don't get me wrong the house we bought the smallest room is 3 x 2.5, still very small but is OK for a child with a shorty bed.

Only in London, eh?

750k and it's barely even a 2 bed. Still, it does look nice.

I’m not British and have never come across bedrooms so small before I moved to England. It makes sense though that it is a English thing as England has the smallest houses in Europe.

Under environmental health legislation if it's less than 50 square feet it's not a bedroom, and wouldn't be counted as a bedroom if considering statutory overcrowding. I would often have to measure rooms to decide this factor and there are many homes where it just wasn't big enough to be a bedroom.

That’s a cupboard.

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As an idea- my son's former room was about this size, he had a cabin bed with a desk underneath that I used to WFH and a narrow cabinet for his clothes. We were lucky enough that when he was ten we moved to a much larger house - lots of people don't have that option.

If you can afford something bigger then get something bigger.