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?

Meanwhile I've just found a 4 bedroom, three storey townhouse near me for sale for £600,000 where the lounge is 3.5m (in to a bay window) x 2.6m. The "box room" has a bigger square footage!

Haha I will have seen your old house! I always watch Location, Location, Location

@Twiglets1 it was a small flat in Croydon and the prospective buyers were horrified at how small it was! I think it was a curve ball to show what size they'd get with their budget if they really wanted to be walking distance to the station needless to say they did not buy it

It’s very small, whether people consider this fine or not doesn’t change this fact, and nor does it mean anyone else has to agree.

Our house has one and we consider it a storage space, not a bedroom.

And also explains the name "box room"

My first flat when I was 19 had a bedroom that was 6ft by 6ft (1.8m x 1.8m).
It was a room with a bed in it.
Stayed there for 4 years absolutely fine.

I'm not in the UK. I don't know if there are any minimum size requirements, but in order to advertise a space as a bedroom here it has to have a window (which makes sense to me for fire safety) and a built in wardrobe.

I just looked it up. There is a minimum of 70 sq ft (6.5 sq metres) for a space to count as a bedroom. So at 4 sq m your room would definitely not be big enough where I live.

I don’t remember it sadly but I’ll keep my eye out as I watch old episodes too.
Croydon. Small. Horrified. Got it.

My childhood bedroom ( in a mid 1960s house was that size. It never seemed a problem at the time.
One DS and family have a room that size in their 2013 house. It has been a child's bedroom for five year, but they do struggle with lack of space.

The biggest problem seems to be the amount of possessions that the younger generations have nowadays, both adults and children. A bedroom that size is still OK as long as the house has good storage space elsewhere, but many houses, especially very modern ones, don't.

Our smallest bedroom is 2.5mx2m and includes a raised box over the stairs.

One of my sons was in that room as a teen. He had a mid-sleeper cabin bed that I altered so that one half of the bed was over the stair block and he had storage underneath the other half. He had a locker style wardrobe at the end of the bed which was adequate as he didn't have many clothes than needed hanging up.

On the opposite side of the wall, he had a desk, a chest of drawers and a shelving unit. He had plenty of storage his clothes, his stuff and a place to do his homework. He had a tele and his xbox on top of the drawers and could sit in bed to play games or watch TV.

He was perfectly happy in there and didn't feel neglected!

My childhood bedroom was 6ft by 6ft up until 17 I moved out of home. YABU.

6ft is 182cm.
Standard single bed is 190cm

I would read 6ft by 6ft as probably 6ft by 6ft something, a measurement that would allow for a single bed, measurements are often rounded!

The OP says this one is 2.05x2.10 so not quite sure how she's going to wiggle a bedframe in there. Toddler bed it is!

I read it as "i think it was 6ft".
As siad, I don't think people realise how little these measurements actually are irl

soon there won't be enough space for their belongings

Problem here is not the size of the room!

I think it's fairly easy to visualise if you know the measurements of a single bed. 2.05 x 2.10 is pretty much the size of two single beds.

The nationally described space standards will get adopted into local policies in local plans to make them a minimum requirement for all new builds. This will take time.

In my area they are the minimum of all new builds as we have our local plan adopted.

However, as many others have said if you can fit a bed in and it has a window no reason you can't use it as a bedroom.

My bedroom is 2.3x2.6m. It’s tiny, but it’s big enough for what I need.

2x2m isn’t great, but if it can get a bed in it then it’s usable for those that need the room.

4 by 2 is 8 metres square, whereas OPs room is only 2 by 2 so 4 metres square.

Your room is double the size of theirs.

My childhood bedroom was a box room. As an adult I bought a 3 bed semi where the previous owner had done some work and moved the bathroom into the box room to allow for a larger bedroom. I think it works well. Bathroom is tiny but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Whoops, forgot to add that the bathroom is 1.9mx1.9m.

We're using ours as a nursery currently but it will literally only fit a wardrobe in alongside a cot bed, so when DD needs a single bed I've no idea what we'll do. Ours is also particularly awkward as the radiator takes up one wall, the door another, and the window another. So we're left with only one uninterrupted wall to play with