Repurposing my rooms

[Gettingbysomehow]

I'm single and have a three bedroom bog standard terraced house. Up until recently I had the normal layout. Beds in the bedroom. Living room. Kitchen diner.
Then decided its not working for me. Why do I need three bedrooms?
I put my bed in the 2nd smaller bedroom. I dont spend anytime there. I just sleep then I'm not in my bedroom the rest of the day so a big room is wasted on the place I sleep.
The box room, I sold the single bed and made it into a lovely office. I mostly work in the hospital but have meetings and work days at home so I need an office.
The big bedroom is now my craft and hobby room where I spend most of my time on my hobbies and painting and I can have my sewing machine out permanently. I have a nice armchair in there too so I can read on rainy days.
At last my home works for me.
I have a blow up bed if anyone comes to stay that I can put up if needed.
How would you rearrange your home to suit you if you didn't have tplease anyone else?

That sounds lovely @Gettingbysomehow, particularly the hobbies room 🙂

Our current house was a huge downsize for us (there's just two of us at home now so no longer needed 4/5 bedrooms), but the layout and purpose of the rooms didn't suit our needs at all.

We hated the fact that the kitchen was in a dark room at the back with a horrid extension stuck onto it by a previous owner in the 1990s. It was so dark you could barely see your hand in front of you if the lights weren't on.

We took the radical decision to move the kitchen into the front of the 'cottage' (a former agricultural building), having first opened it up into the tiny second reception room that adjoined it. This works so very much better as we no longer have to trudge through two living rooms to get to the kitchen with bags of shopping! It's also a bright, cheerful space.

The dark back space has become our dining area - although we opened it up into the awful extension, which we've rebuilt with massive new windows and that now lovely, light-filled space is where we have our sofas.

In addition we carved off a bit of one end of the darkest room to create a rear lobby and cloakroom by the garden door.

We also altered the upstairs layout completely, creating a hall where there wasn't one previously and made the rear bedroom with garden views our room.

These changes have revolutionised the way we use our home!

I left off one of the most important bits - the old front living room had no garden views - ridiculous when we're surrounded by a huge outside space - but nor did the old kitchen.

Our new, improved living room looks out onto what we're trsnsforming into a pretty part of the garden which is probably the biggest game changer for me!

That sounds fantastic liberty, so much better and a great use of the space. There is nothing worse that a horrible, dark and poky kitchen!

Thank you! It is! I know many people think it's fine for a kitchen to be dark as you can just add loads of bright, task lighting but I found it so depressing to need lights on in there during daytime. Not helped by being an old property with typically tiny windows throughout.

We do this too. In our last house was normal 2up 2down terrace with kitchen and bathroom. We put the living room upstairs because it was warmer in the winter.

Our current house is 3 bed semi. Our bedroom is in the small box room and one of the other bedrooms is used by DH for his office/studio/wardrobe and the biggest upstairs room is used as our living lounge area. I have the downstairs 'dining room' as my office/studio/wardrobe. We use the 'breakfast bar' as our dining space because it's just us 2 most of the time.