Does a bed in the corner put you off a house?

[Magicalbeaver]

I'm rearranging my bedroom in the hope of putting my house up for sale in the next year. I want it to look as good as possible. I currently have the bed in the corner as I live alone. I think it's cosy and it makes the room feel so much bigger as there's lots more floorspace.

However I've seen lots of negative comments on Mumsnet over the years about bedrooms looking bad if the bed is in the corner.

So I'm wondering, would it actually put you off buying a house if the bed is in the corner?

I’d move it for the photos and viewings.

All I’ve learned from selling houses over the years is that there are a lot of stupid people in the world, who can’t look at the size of the room and see where things could fit, and imagine furniture in it in a different position, or a room having flexible uses.

They would probably see your bed in the corner and assume you couldn’t fit one in any other position.

I’ve had some clangers over the years, once when dh had one of the 3 double bedrooms as an office. We didn’t put a bed in as come on, it was a 14x14 ft room, you’d think it was pretty obvious that you could fit a bed in there. But most of the feedback was “we need 3 bedrooms, not 2 and an office.” We stuck a bed in there and it was sold after the next viewing. I’ve never underestimated how daft some people can be since.

I'm single and used to have my double bed in the corner, but I moved it into the middle of the room because changing the sheets was a complete pain when I couldn't walk right round the bed. I had a bad back for several weeks and wasn't prepared to compromise on my 'clean sheet night' but sitting on the bed while tucking the fitted sheet on was agony.

@Magicalbeaver I hate beds in corners or against the wall! it means than one person always has to climb over the other to just go to the loo in the middle of the night! not so bad for a single bed but even then, making the bed against the wall is a pain in the neck!

Still incredibly disturbing for the other person at 3am. Or in my case, having to get out carefully without waking 2 sleeping cats and a 5 year old…

Choosing to use a corner is fine, but it gives the impression of inadequate space to have it centred which is the “norm” in a double but not in a single.

And if you have one of those metal beds with the high footer - you can't.

As there are some truly thick and unimaginative people out there, I would possibly put the bed more centrally just for the photos.

No, and I have currently have the bed in the master bedroom in the corner for the exact reason you say - it feels more cosy and leave space around for an extra piece of furniture that I like. I really didn't like the bed where is was 'supposed' to go because it felt just stuck in the middle of nowhere and cold.

Not me personally, but if it's a "thing" then for the sake of an easier sale then position the bed where it's obvious 2 people can easily access it.

If the room's big enough for the bed to be in the centre, it wouldn't be a problem for me seeing your bed in the corner.

Also, I can understand why you like it that way.

I can assure you that I have never not viewed a house because the decor was awful, it was untidy, the furniture placement was not to my taste, the beds weren’t made, the loo seat was up, the photos were dreadful or all the myriad reasons that come up on Mn. Our current house had been a student party house, and was, to put it mildly, absolutely wrecked. I mean, it stank of weed and had graffiti scratched into the living room walls. We still bought it because its bones were beautiful and it was exactly the location we wanted.

I don’t know, you’d be suprised at how many people are incapable of extrapolating information from a floor plan.

I’ve sold quite a few houses over the years and it’s always really surprised me.

“You can’t fit a car in the garage”

“If you look on the floor plans the garage is marked as storage, you can see the other half has been turned into a utility.”

They then get pissy that it’s not a full size garage when it’s clearly bloody marked on the floor plans, along with sizes. Had that one a couple of times, including someone arguing it with me, they still couldn’t work it out from the floor plan when the agent was standing there pointing it out to them.

I don't think it's a matter of being thick and unimaginative, it's just that some people's minds don't work that way. I'm reasonably intelligent and I write novels for a living so my imagination is top notch but my spatial awareness and ability to 'visualise' a room empty is nearly nil.

It wouldn't put me off, but you'd be surprised by the number of people who lack imagination/spatial ability. Move the bed to the centre to show that it's obvious a person can get out either side/there's room for a bedside table.

No, because I’d know I could put my bed somewhere else when I move in- assuming there is space for this of course!
When we were looking at houses to buy I would never let anything like this put me off as I knew that when the house would become ours, we’d design it and put our furniture as we like it!

I like to think I could see past it, but as a seller I would stage main bedrooms with access to both sides of the bed wherever practical. Both for photos and viewings.

Wouldn’t put me off buying a house if I could see the room was big enough not to have to do this. I do t like it though looks squashed in and it’s a bugger to make.

A friend bought a hoarder house that everyone rejected as it felt too small. They saw past the clutter by looking at the size of the ceiling to get a real idea of the size of the room. House is now beautiful and a really good size.

People view photos before they view the house so it would depend on the angle of the photo

If I saw a photo with a bed in the corner but initial reaction would be that it’s a small room for a master and would scroll on… unless the photo showed the space around the room

i have sold two houses in the past six years for thousands more than they were ‘worth’. And by that I mean the zoopla price and the price they were listed for. I really believe that’s because I’m brilliant at staging them. Impeccably tidy, no clutter anywhere at all, every selling point maximised (for example, my last house had patio doors out to the garden and the garden was beautiful, so the doors were flung open and the lawn freshly mowed). I have three kids so it’s not easy but I’ve sold on first viewings both times, both offering over asking because they were so keen. Three and four bedrooms sixties semi-detached houses so nothing niche. Having viewed dozens of houses myself, I understand why…some people show houses in appalling states…messy, disorganised, looking unloved. It’s not personal, it’s business if you want the best price. Think like a buyer and move the bed!

I’m single have my bed in the corner. But if couples are looking at your house they need to see the bed central so they know they have enough room to get in and out the bed either side.

No, my son has his in the corner but i know the bed can fit various different ways he just chooses that way. Long as the buyer knows theres other ways for it and theres space i dont see the problem. Its when you have a tiny room & can tell.

Completely agree with @Shuttupmeg

There are loads of people out there who cannot envision a room or where to put things so will just look at what's in front of them with no spatial awareness of how to do things differently.

Definitely move the bed for the photos and viewings

For me it depends if the floor plans are available to see with dimensions. I’ve noticed there’s really not many listings where we are now which include this so if I saw a bed in the corner & didn’t have the dimensions to check, I’d think it was probably there because the room is too small for it to go anywhere else.

I once viewed a house I was planning to buy to rent out. As we opened the door to one of the bedrooms, this dreadful sweaty sock/BO smell hit us. The owner, undeterred, threw the door wide open and we were treated to the view of her teenage son’s naked butt as he snored in his pit. I was traumatised about viewings for weeks! 😂
I didn’t buy that house!

Have it where buyers will list like it. A friend used to do up houses and sell them. Buyers never cared about the roof and eco friendly boiler but a good staging would see things sold quickly. In the end she just redecorated some houses and made a fortune off them!