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?

It wouldn't bother me at all. In my previous house I had my bed against the wall for the same reason, it just worked best for me. I left it like that and the house sold with no problem.

Probably wouldn’t consciously put me off but it might make me feel that the house was small and not suited for us in photos.

For me it wouldn't entirely put me off but if I had a few options that would suit my needs and I was putting them in order of viewing choice or deciding which not to bother to view then it would plant a niggly minus in my mind...if I am thinking the house looks a bit pokey anyway....or the garden isn't how I'd like it ideally....the kitchen or bathroom looks in good nick but I loathe it..... Basically you want to give prospective buyers the best possible impression from the get go.

Have a look at other property sale photos and judge from those…….also, your estate agent might advise you but personally, a bed against a wall wouldn’t put me off but buyers don’t always ‘see the bigger picture’

No. I’m not interested in the furniture. I’d be looking at the room size.

Don't have the bed up against the wall in sale photos. A lot of people can't see past the current furniture and decor so you are better off showing it set up as a standard double with space around the bed.
You want to make it as appealing and easy to sell as possible.

Would not worry OH or me but we can visualise a room empty and how we would place our furniture.
A family member on the other hand, they cannot see past what is already there. When house hunting recently, they dropped houses where the living room layout was not to their taste as they just could not see how it would look with a sofa or dining table in different positions etc.

I agree that it is crazy to judge a place by the furniture, but I think people- even subconsciously- rate a place on its current decor

No because I'd think "I have my own furniture and can arrange it how I like".

Agree!

Yes, it would and has put me off houses. So many newer houses have SUCH small bedrooms (and inexplicably millions of bathrooms) and I would assume there wasn't really space to have the bed comfortably in the middle of the room.

Thank you everyone! Interesting posts. I did think that a lot of people can't visualise a room and I don't want a little thing like a bed position to stop people from viewing!

I'd say double bed needs space around it if possible - but it depends how big the room is and what else you have to fit in.
But one would hope buyers would realise they are buying the house and the furniture etc won't be there!

I guess this is fir rich people. I've always had the bed against the wall everywhere I've ever lived 😁

I think the opinions you see on mumsnet tend to not always represent the average Joe, because people who want to show off about how much space they have and how amazing their house is are more likely to post. So you'll see a lot of "I could never live somewhere that wasn't detached/affluent area/multiple bedrooms/enormous garden/orchard/billiards room etc"

This was essentially the house we bought, but there were five rancid young men living in it (messy divorce, long dispute over the house when no one lived in it, then former family home left to be inhabited by their student sons and their friends for years before it went on the market.).

I like to think that superficialities would never put me off. One of the first things I look at is the floor plan and room dimensions, so no.

Corner of the living room yes, corner of the bedroom no.

It wouldn’t bother me but a lot of people are surprisingly bad at visualising a room as different to what’s in front of them it seems.

When I bought my house the owners had moved the bed for the pictures and at the viewing the bed was in the corner. It’s not the biggest room and they had a small child that sometimes slept in with them so it was moved so he didn’t fall out,
I knew the bed would fit in a different position from the pictures so it wasn’t an issue.

I stayed in a cupboard single room in an expensive Highland hotel recently. There wasn't enough enough room for one bedside table, let alone two! I will never be back. I could barely fit in the shower.

Depends on if it’s obvious from the photos that there is plenty of room for it to be moved elsewhere. If it’s clear that there is lots of space, then there’s no issue with keeping it in the corner (even for couples who would want to access both sides of a bed if they bought the house).

But I admit I do find it off putting in house photos when the bed is under the window for example (headboard often blocks light, closer to drafts and outside noise) and it’s not clear from the photos if there’s enough space for it to be positioned elsewhere. Yes, you can try to work it out from the floor plan/room measurements- but it’s nice to make it easier for your buyer from clear photos.

Me either

It wouldn’t bother me as I tend to look at the floor plan before anything else, but for those who struggle to visualise space, I think they might be subconsciously put off by it. It’s one of those things that makes the room seem smaller in pictures even if it actually creates more space in reality.

It wouldn’t put me off if it was very obvious that it could be put elsewhere , if the room is a bit tight then yes it would put me off as I’d be thinking how awkward it would be to change the bedding if I had to keep moving a bed out .

It's like asking if decor that isn't to most people's taste or the smell of dogs would put buyers off. Some people can overlook the superficial stuff and visualise how it would be if it was theirs; some people aren't so good at it. Put the bed in the middle, take the pic and put it back if you need to. But more people will see it as a grown-up house if you keep it in the middle for viewings; the corner thing looks studenty.