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Practical or pretentious?

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AgnestaVipers · 09/08/2023 19:40

AIBU to secretly hanker after a dressing room?

I don't much like getting dressed or undressed with my partner in the bedroom, so I would love to have a dressing room where I can disrobe in dignity. (I'm clumsy and rushing, and end up tangled in my knickers and lurching across the room).

What about a boot room, for chucking dirty footwear in and hosing down the dog?
A wine cellar?
A home gym?
A wine cellar?

Do you secretly hanker after any of these, or others? Are these things genuinely useful or merely pretentious status symbols?

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Ponderingwindow · 09/08/2023 20:21

I put a makeup table in the corner of my bedroom last year. I absolutely love it. I don’t even wear makeup that much, but it’s just so much nicer to have a comfortable spot to get ready n those occasions I’m doing more than quickly running a brush through my hair.

I’d love a full dressing room. My DH would be in there constantly. I swear he has naked radar. I just like the idea of a whole organized room with my things.

LadyPoison · 09/08/2023 20:23

I had a dressing room in a previous house - I still miss it and have co-opted the smallest bedroom next to mine as a replacement. Sadly though it has no connecting door.

This place though does have a studio for me to use and I've also taken over an old kitchen as a craft room so I can't really complain.

KimberleyClark · 09/08/2023 20:27

I’d like a library.

eosmum · 09/08/2023 20:29

Forgoodnesssakewhatnow · 09/08/2023 19:48

I used to have a craft room in my old house. It was truly serene and lovely. Then I had kids….

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Wow you gave up a craft room for a child. What a sacrifice 😇

continentallentil · 09/08/2023 20:31

Who wouldn’t love a dressing room ?? It would mean your bedroom could be really minimalist and calm, which I’m not bothered about generally but in the bedroom - yes.

I would also like a laundry room

A separate home office

A spare room

A pantry

I live in a rabbit hutch..

Bluevelvetsofa · 09/08/2023 20:36

I have a craft room. It’s the smallest bedroom really and could easily be returned to a single bedroom, but now it houses my yarn, cross stitch kits, patterns, needles, threads etc. They’re in IKEA storage.

I’d like a dressing room and a pantry.

Hatsforbats · 09/08/2023 20:37

We live in a newbuild with multiple very tiny bedrooms (one fits a double bed in but it has to be against two walls). We made one of the rooms into everyones dressing room, so we all keep our clothes in one room, with the towels, spare sheets, ironing board and airers. It's great and means nobody has to have a wardrobe in their bedroom and generally bedrooms stay much tidier as there are no clothes all over their floors.

Howmuchfurther · 09/08/2023 20:39

AgnestaVipers · 09/08/2023 19:40

AIBU to secretly hanker after a dressing room?

I don't much like getting dressed or undressed with my partner in the bedroom, so I would love to have a dressing room where I can disrobe in dignity. (I'm clumsy and rushing, and end up tangled in my knickers and lurching across the room).

What about a boot room, for chucking dirty footwear in and hosing down the dog?
A wine cellar?
A home gym?
A wine cellar?

Do you secretly hanker after any of these, or others? Are these things genuinely useful or merely pretentious status symbols?

I would love a dressing room !

squashyhat · 09/08/2023 20:40

A library and a cinema room. Or maybe a library/cinema room incorporating a cocktail bar complete with mixologist.

Neverknowinglysensible · 09/08/2023 20:43

I’d love a proper utility room - mine’s actually a utility cupboard that just fits the washer, dryer and hoover - but I’d kill for a library!

DoesItHaveKosovo · 09/08/2023 20:47

I want all of these. Boot room, pantry, dressing room, craft room, home gym, utility room, library, and a snug (or a living room without a tv in it)

I live in a three bed maisonette so it’s a bit of a pipe dream but I’ll get there one day…

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 09/08/2023 20:53

I’d love but no room for:
walk in pantry
utility room
en suite

ActDottie · 09/08/2023 20:53

Yes to boot room! We plan to add one eventually we have two dogs and the amount of mud in the winter is madness!

Would love a walk in wardrobe we have plans for a loft extension in a few years so hoping to get one in then :)

leftoversfortea · 09/08/2023 20:54

I quite fancy a cellar (no, not a wine cellar) to put lots of stuff in. Shelves, boxes, organised zones....well lit and dry of course. All my outdoor stuff, luggage etc. I have an attic but it's not the same.

Bearpawk · 09/08/2023 20:54

Yes I'd love a small dressing room, as I like a minimalist bedroom.

Fivecluckyhens · 09/08/2023 20:57

I want an orangery

NannyGythaOgg · 09/08/2023 20:59

I have a dressing room.
One room with a wall 2/3 down the middle. Shower, loo and basin on one side of this wall. The whole of the other side is my walk in wardrobe and the 1/3 at the end has washing machine and tumble dryer (heat recycling costs about 10p a load), dressing table and mirror.

My bedroom has my bed, a couple of rugs and one wall is a fitted set of library shelves for all my books. Wall lights near the bed and a little bedside set of drawers for medications. Oh, and theres a tv on a wall stand for Saturday morning coffees in bed watching Mat Tebbut and Helen/Olly on Saturday Kitchen

NannyGythaOgg · 09/08/2023 20:59

Unfortunately that is all I have on your list

jays · 09/08/2023 21:00

DaisyAndDonaldDuck · 09/08/2023 19:41

I don't much like getting dressed or undressed with my partner in the bedroom

Well this is odd.

why is it odd? There’s absolutely nothing ‘odd’ about wanting to put together an outfit, wriggle into a pair of tights, fasten your bra at the front and twist it round etc without your partner watching. No need for the performative bafflement 🙄, it’s not that hard to wrap your head around it.

KohlaParasaurus · 09/08/2023 21:02

I'd love a dressing room. I'd even share it with DH on condition that he put his dirty clothes in the laundry basket instead of leaving little nests of them on the floor. When the last DC moved out we considered moving some walls and doors to create a suite with a dressing room out of his room and ours, but decided it wasn't worth the cost and upheaval. Just as well, because that DC and one of the others boomeranged.

We have a home gym. It's a treadmill, a set of bike rollers and some weightlifting equipment in the garage and an old rug for floor exercises. No TV screens or smart trainers. We don't need it now because the local gym has extended opening hours, but we've more than saved its cost by not needing gym memberships for the past 12 years and it was priceless during lockdown.

Mushroo · 09/08/2023 21:02

jays · 09/08/2023 21:00

why is it odd? There’s absolutely nothing ‘odd’ about wanting to put together an outfit, wriggle into a pair of tights, fasten your bra at the front and twist it round etc without your partner watching. No need for the performative bafflement 🙄, it’s not that hard to wrap your head around it.

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I completely agree. I really like the privacy to faff about in old underwear in peace, pluck some chin hairs in nice lighting and go through various outfit changes without an audience!

TheFrenchLieutenantsMonkey · 09/08/2023 21:04

A reading room, a craft room, a room with a floatation pool and ambient lighting and a planetarium for those cloudyvevening when i still want to stare at the night sky 😀

TheFrenchLieutenantsMonkey · 09/08/2023 21:06

Ooooh and almost forgot, the reading room will be soundproofed so I can have a break from people shouting about the newest imagined slight tgeir sibling has dared to put forward.

ZigZag21 · 09/08/2023 21:06

I just want a bigger kitchen.

SusanSHelit · 09/08/2023 21:07

A dressing room, a boot room /utility room with a European style floor drain and hose for rinsing stuff down as well as washing machine and dryer, a pantry, a big spacious kitchen with a dishwasher, an ensuite and a cleaner are all things I will have when I am rich enough!

As it stands I have one downstairs loo, one kitchen /diner, living room, upstairs bathroom, one bedroom, two box rooms and a hall full of damp and mould that my arsehole landlord is stubbornly ignoring. (I have spoken to environmental health about the mould though so hopefully that will be sorted eventually)