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?

My room growing up was 2m by 2.5m I managed fine

Our box is 3x2m, was a nursery for our last dc and then became my office. It could fit a single and a wardrobe and drawers I reckon. I think my box at my mums house growing up was 2x2, had a cabin bed thing with drawers etc underneath it, and a wardrobe, small
but functional as a bedroom - if I had a friend to stay we top and tailed! It was fine 😊

The anger here about someone not thinking 2x2 is actual bedroom is why you all have tiny rooms in UK...
Because everyone just tolerates that.

I had a bedroom like that until I left home at 25! Small single bed with drawers under, tall thin chest of drawers and half of the wardrobe in my siblings' room. Half of suburbia is made up of houses with one of these "bedroom 3" rooms, and lots of families do use it as an actual bedroom.

4x2m is literally twice the size though!

What do you want us to do about houses that are 50+ years old?

Any why are small rooms necessarily bad? We live in such a consumerist society, maybe we should be aspiring to a more minimalist lifestyle where we're not stacking up belongs by the dozen.

It’s a new build

This has been educational for me as I couldn’t picture a bedroom with that footprint so I did some google-research. I’ve lived in a few countries but only one as a homeowner, and here you can’t legally list anything that size as a bedroom, though I suppose what someone does with it after they move in is their business.

We have a room about that size. I use it as my office. It's cosy and I love it.

We use a room that size as a home office. Can’t imagine cramming a bed in there!

Is it exactly 2 x 2? I have a 1.7 x 2.9 and I have a bed and chest of drawers in it.

This was my bedroom in a 1930s terrace, I had a 2"6 bed and a 4 drawer chest of drawers with a book shelf on top, toys went into boxes under the bed. I didn't really have a lot of toys, books or clothes, but it was perfectly fine. Admittedly it wasn't spacious, but a lot of my friends had to share with siblings, so I was quite grateful to have my own space. And it taught me to be tidy.

@ChiefWiggumsBoy expecting bedrooms to meet the legal size requirement is not being privileged. People should stop charging bedroom prices for a room that is cupboard size.

I'm not in the UK, where I live a 2 x 2 room could not be legally advertised as a bedroom. Depending where you are you might not even get permission to build a home with a room that small in it, in case it is used as a bedroom.

I appreciate the UK is different and box rooms are common there.

Teen's room is about that, 190cm (literally just a single mattress, no space for headboard by just over that, maybe 210cm. Custom bed to fit mattress with storage under (not expensive, mdf by by go to joiner), then fits a small desk, ikea stuva wardrobe and drawers. The amount of crap she keeps on her floor suggests there is also floor space.

I don't get this obsession with bedrooms needing to be big, I know lots of people who think a child absolutely must have a double bed as a teen and can't stay in a single. You wonder how any of us got to adulthood in our single beds in box rooms. Even at uni my bed was one of those slightly smaller than a real single ones.

It would be ok for a desk to WFH.

Every house on this estate has a 3rd bedroom that size. DD has a bunkbed, slim desk and clothing rail in hers.
To be fair she does hate it and wants a double bed but it won't be happening.

Er, 4m x 2m is a lot bigger than 2x2

If you wanted three bedrooms and a study you’d look for a four bed on RM. So for house listings it kind of works. And it is a bedroom, just a small one.

Its a standard 3rd bedroom in the majority of semis in this country. Nothing wrong with it. Our 3rd bedroom is 9x7 (not sure about metres) and its probably about the same. Our 2nd bedroom is 10x8, not much bigger and thats a double bedroom at the front.

9x7 is a lot bigger

Not for us, but we only looked at houses with 3 double bedrooms. The smallest is 3x3m. Our house is actually bigger in terms of sqm than the nearby 4 bed new builds. Everyone is different though: my brother has a cot and toddler bed in a room 2.2x2.2m.

For those not good with metres 2x2m is 6’6” x 6’6”. Depending on the placement of the door, window and radiator it could be hard to get more than a bed and bedside table in. Certainly no desk, chest of drawers or wardrobe unless you have a cabin bed.

DD1's usable floor space is about that. A bed only fits in one way because one wall has a radiator and the other has a wall socket in the other direction. The room is technically longer but also has a built in over-stairs wardrobe reducing the remaining length to a door-width. It's a 3 bed council semi.

Of course it is. If it is upstairs and has a window, and you can fit a bed in it, then it is a bedroom.
Very, very, very normal for houses to have "2 beds and a boxroom" and one of the dc would have the boxroom as their bedroom.