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?

Upstairs utility room - which we have done. It is a game changer. A box room for guests, as we have more laundry than guests

We have a playroom, husband and I have separate bedrooms (i co sleep with one of our children and the dog), husband has a study which is also a guest room, and another guest room is where I see clients, also have a dedicated laundry room

I have a peloton/gym room it’s not posh, also has wardrobes and I’ve put shelves in for bulk buy storage of stuff like toilet roll

The small bedroom is now my study/ sewing room; we have a spare bedroom; DD has a small home office, a bedroom and a lounge in the loft.

I’ve got a room like this and it’s a library. Would love another for a gym

I would love loads of extra rooms. A library, a music room, a dining room, an office, a sewing room. The dream.

Kitchen with room for an island and a dining table.

Box room.

Study room so spare room could be craft room too as well as study too. And I'd shove a sofabed in the craft room so I could have lots of guests without people having to camp in the living room.

I would love a sensory hang out room for my son, or if it was one for me, I would do a home gym set up.

Ooh yes, utility room with ironing board up all the time and a TV on the wall. And a big clothes drying rack.

Potting shed. Greenhouse.

A home gym, definitely. Kids are 18 and 16 now so maybe in a few years time!

We have an office downstairs.
Upstairs, we have 2 full double spare bedrooms (one of which I do muse about turning into something, but no idea what), and we turned the huge third double room into a giant dressing room for our teenager. I love it, it’s fabulous.

Bought the house because it had a garage. That's now a laundry room. Ds's old room is my office / craft space / chill out space and we've done the loft so dh has the equivalent space. It's amazing having my own space (dh hates it because it's so cluttered)

Downstairs the extra room is the TV/cinema room.
Upstairs we have 5 bedrooms but only need 3 for that purpose. One we converted to an upstairs laundry, the other to the study.

When DCs were all living at home I thought that when they started to leave home we would downsize.

Now only DS still living with us. Instead of downsizing we extended.

We now have

• dressing room
• office
• sewing room/guest room
• snug/airbrushing room

In my fantasy home I would have a warm but airy sewing room in the garden complete with small kitchen, toilet, changing room.

DH would have a workshop with separate areas for motorbike restoration and woodworking.

My daughter was born with gross neurological damage and before sensory rooms were a thing. On the advice from Sense,I made her a sensory area out of an old tea chest and would put her in there as a tiny baby, it was the only time she felt comforted (and I got a break!) . Fast forward a good few years and I gave up my bedroom for a wonderful sensory room that we can both chill in, it's amazing.

I've got 4 kids, one is 19 and autistic so probably won't move out anytime soon so id make a nice big bedroom for him so my younger ones could have their own rooms

Downstairs we had 3:spare rooms so had, a cinema (never actually used) a play room and an office. Upstairs one spare room as a spare bedroom

A craft sewing room to be able to leave my sewing machine out. A library I could have my fiction in alphabetical order and my information books in categories sad really.

We have two extra rooms downstairs - one is the library/study, the other the playroom (actually toy storage because DS never actually plays in there, he prefers to play in the sitting room). Then upstairs we have a guest bedroom and an all purpose dumping room where we dry laundry, do ironing, have lots more bookshelves and a table where I work sometimes. Also if we have extra guests we put them up in there on a pullout bed.

I want a study/library. I used to have one but now its DD's bedroom. But perhaps in a few years DS will no longer use the playroom (that is connected to the lounge but would have been a separate room once upon a time) and we can put the wall back and put a door in and then I'll have an extra room to turn into a study/library. And a summer bedroom, because it is way too hot upstairs in the summer.

Utility/laundry room
Craft room

Same as you library , cinema and dressing room.

Just put an offer in on a house with an open plan lounge/ kitchen/diner plus three other downstairs rooms and a good size garage. Thinking 1 room as library/ study/spare room (Murphy bed), 1 room as a grown up lounge/snug (with office setup that can hideaway), 1 room as playroom. Then use the garage as utility and gym as well as outside stuff storage.
So excited after our 2 up 2 down terrace with stuff everywhere.

Absolutely a library room. If it was big enough id include a dinning table, to eat at or stack books on

We have a large kitchen which also has a lounge and dining area plus 3 other downstairs rooms. One is the main lounge, one a study and the third was a playroom for many years but I’m slowly reclaiming it as a dining room. The third room is hardly ever used now so will eventually incorporate it into the kitchen.