What would you use 'extra' rooms for in your house?

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If your house had a big kitchen, living room and a seperate dining room what would you use the other rooms for?

In a dreamland, what would make you happy, and do you think your partner or family would agree?

For me I think I would love a library room. Comfy sofa, various throws, loads of books with a ladder that attaches to the bookshelves.. I also quite like the idea of a cinema room, but that feels like something we'd use less often, especially with how big the normal televisions are now. That just feels like another living room to me...

What would you do, if you had the space?

A playroom/study room. Although kids are getting older so more likely to be a games and hang out room

bedroom for myself. I sleep so much better alone.

A separate dining room, a walk in wardrobe, a craft room, a full of crap room, mostly I dream about a utility room.
My home is a small terrace house with one small upstairs bathroom.
There is no extra room.

Our extra room was a playroom, then a guest room, now an office / second lounge. I always wanted a craft room but… stopped crafting.

Exactly the same for me.

I'd like a bedroom for me. Currently sleeping in the living room.

We already have a music room, and a library upstairs which is also my wfh office. I recognise I'm really privileged to have these spaces and really appreciate them - although the music room is used mainly by our sons. The only thing I'd really like to add is a walk in pantry (and have a bigger library as it is overflowing 🤣)

We have craft room, dog room, office, music room (guitar dumping room) dry washing room,

In my fantasy house, I have a utility room, a proper office and a dining room.
Ideally I’d like two offices. One ground floor with its own entrance and a small side room, (to be a clinic suite for me) one elsewhere in the house that is entirely office space.
I have decided that when we move, which will hopefully be soonish, we will have a dining room and utility. For definite.
We can manage without an office, if needs be, but I can’t cope with the tumble dryer being in the garage any longer! It’s horrible.

I knew this was going to be Warhammer! I too would like a Warhammer room for all the painting gear and the endless bloody armies to be in one place where I never have to see them

In theory I’d like a second reception room for the (grown) kids to use in the evenings for their movies, gaming etc while DH and I have the living room. A spare bedroom for guests and a reading room so the bedrooms wouldn’t have towering stacks of books that can’t fit on the already double-stacked shelves.

But in practice that would just be more rooms to fail to keep clean and tidy.

I'd love an utility room

We have a 5 bedroom house. DH bought it 10 years before we met as a sort of house that would do for house parties for friends. I put up with that for 20 years and then got tired of people taking the piss. (We live in a very popular tourist area).

So now we have a master bedroom. two bedrooms for the Dcs. A study and a library. The latter 2 do not have beds.

Home gym - weights, mats, tv, massive mirrors, speakers, nice lighting, maybe a Pilates reformer machine, rowing machine, bike. Large enough so multiple people can workout at once eg 2/3 reformer beds.

Walk in wardrobe/dressing room: think floor to ceiling shelving and mirrors and generally a space for everything fashion/beauty related. No real need for any clothes or makeup to be in the bathroom or bedrooms.

Hobby room: not sure how to explain but a generally creative space for physical things like arts & crafts & musical instruments

Pet room: I like the idea of going all in with a ridiculous set up for your dog like a mini house, giant ball pit etc but not having it out in the main living areas.

Also my house is quite contemporary. I have an office but it doesn’t make sense to not style it in a contemporary manner. If I had the right space, I’d just like the option for classic styling that is dark and gloomy, lots of built in wooden furniture, maybe a secret door behind massive wall to wall bookshelves, dark carpet and ceilings.

My third bedroom is a library/reading room and I love it, I’ve wanted one for years. Shelves covered with books, armchair, footstool, side table and standing lamp. Perfection!

A strictly screen free, electronic device free room.

A garden room full of plants and books and art on the walls.

A music room with piano and record player

A minimalist room that never needs tidying. Just light dusting.

An office

A guest room

A play room if kids still small

Hobby room

Walk in wardrobe

Am I allowed two in this scenario? 😂 my partner and I talk about this all the time, we’d have a playroom for our children (both under two) so we’d be able to make it age appropriate for both of them as they grow older, and a little games room for us with a dartboard, air hockey table, mini fridge, TV, little sofa etc. So basically a playroom for the actual children and a playroom for the big children 😂

Office, library, guest room, crafting room, and I’d like an orangerie as well.

I would love just a laundry room! That's all!

I was satisfied but now I want an orangerie too. 🤣

Orangerie is making me expand my ambitions!

Now I’d like a sun room.

I know this is truly chavtastic and not very mumsnet but we would put in a bar, pool table, and darts board. Maybe a pinball machine or some old arcade games. We play in a darts and pool league together, so this way we could get in some extra practice and decimate the competition… also host people as well I guess. Kids have enough space to play, if we had extra room we would do something for us, being selfish makes us better parents.

I will say that we absolutely prioritised a house for living when we last moved and sacrificed what others may consider asessentials to them.

There are four non essential rooms which are used as two offices, a TV room and a games room with pool table and dartboard.

Definitely horses for courses but it's created so much fun and relaxed living in our house.

Craft room or workshop is my dream.

Actually, my vair vair posh grandfather's enormous ex vicarage house had a laundry room - when I was small, it had a twin tub and ironing board and the most enormous hanging rack (the type of maiden that pulls up to the ceiling). I don't remember them moving to automatic washing machines but I guess they did!

I would go for this with an acre of Lakeland heated airers, and some contraption of my own invention that would be a heated airer inside but would wheel outside for when it's sunny.

Unfortunately though we are past the washable nappy stage, both DCs are fond of outdoor stuff (DD is in Scouts and DS wants to be, DD cycles as a sport and they both go on outings with me), and DD has bouts of constipation and leakage.
So we are still washing central.

for us with 3 teens I would like

Lounge - nice calm grown up space
Lounge - kids hangout, video consoles etc
Study with bookshelves and comfy ready chair as well as computer desks
Kitchen/breakfast room
Dining Room
Hobby room - for crafts and fossils and lego etc
Utility room for all the mess