What do you use the rooms in your house for?

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I am obsessing about how to organise what goes on in the rooms of our new (yet to be rented or bought) house - Ok in my defence I am pregnant! We will be renting a house withing next few weeks or buying within next 2 months). We have a 3 year old ds aswell. This is what I am thinking:

Kitchen - big enough to have small table for breakfast at least and definitely to have toy cooker and shelving unit for a few toys

Sitting-room - drawers for ALL of the kids clothes and my cosmetics and lots of shelving for ds's toys and a corner with sheepskins rugs etc for baby. So that ds can play in here while I do things with little one. Maybe no tv (ds doesn't watch and we watch it when he's in bed at 9 p.m.).

Other downstairs room - a little unsure whether I should have this for the tv or as a chill-out room and a dinning room table or as a room for organising laundry? Not really sure what to do with this room.

Upstairs -

Bedroom 1 - big enough for king-sized bed for whole family (ds still co-sleeps) and also single bed for ds. No clothes or anything else in here.

Bedroom 2 - Study for dh who works from home

Bedroom 3 - Dressing-type room with all of the clothes in there and can double up as spare bedroom.

Bedroom 4 - Bedroom for ds if he wants his own room.

Does anyone have any innovative ideas for using rooms? I'm used to smaller spaces myself and tend to do a lot of living in the kitchen and sitting-room - including drying hair, putting on make-up etc. I had thought of having a dressing room downstairs, but dh thinks I'm nuts and should just walk up the stairs!

Kitchen - cooking. It's tiny
1st reception room - computer room full of DH's technical stuff
2nd reception room - TV, sitting room and eating in

Bedroom 1 - our room
Bedroom 2 Spare room/junk room
Bathroom - bathing and toilet

kitchen- cooking only
reception 1- have large table open plan to
tv snug
reception 2- play room for ds
reception 3- office for dh so he s close to family

bed 1- our room
bed 2- ds room
bed 3- spare room
bed 4- spare room
bed 5- fitted out dressing room.

we also dont have anything in the bedrooms apart from beds.

Imagine a 2 story terrace, but as a semi. OUr usage is a bit odd, but it works.

Ground floor
Front room & back room - knocked through to make 1 large room. Used as Kitchen/diner, with 2 fireplaces, toy storage and a new back door. Nice bay window and 2 other windows.

Old kitchen, in the bit out back where all Victorian terraces have their kitchen. Now turning into a playroom with patio doors, although will have large [1.2m w by 2m h] built in cupboards housing washer dryer and laundry storage. Panicking room won't be big enough

Understairs, wrestled with idea of little lo, but went for built in storage for coats, jumpers, bags and shoes.

Landing - Bathroom above the old kitchen.

1st floor
1st double bedroom - now the lounge.

2nd bedroom, single - spare/office. Maybe bedroom for dd1 or 2? We'll see.

2nd floor
3rd bedroom, ours, large double. One day when rich will have ensuite.
4th bedroom, girls will share.

We really like our house, although it is feling cramped. Probably need a good clear out.

Kitchen- cooking and dining area. I love it as I can cook and chat at the same time.

Ist reception room- sitting room

2nd reception room formal diniing room considered changing it to a reading room but decided against it for now.

Ist bedroom- ours

2nd bedroom- dc

£rd bedroom- chill room. No tv just a music system and sofa bed so we can use it as a spare. I keep all my books in there.

$th room- DH's study but is full of wires and computer parts.

One day will convert the garage but not yet.

Lounge - eating, watching TV, working.
Kitchen - cooking and washing.
"Dining" room - junk store.
Bathroom - washing.
Bedroom - sleeping.
Nursery - baby sleeping.
Guest room - junk store.

kitchen, tiny so just for cooking.
front room, used to be living room when we moved in but we switched a few years ago so is now dining room, books, bikes and general dumping room. (needs a tidy AGAIN)
back room, living room with music system and tv, back door opens into garden which is lovely right now, hence the swap.
bathroom, obvious really
back bedroom, our room, bed and built in wardrobes.
front bedroom, sofa bed, small tv and DHs xbox, laundry etc. Not sure how i feel about this really as would prefer to have a proper guest room but it works at the moment.
box room, currently my office and craft storage room as i used to be self employed and still WFH once a week. hopefully will be turned into a nursury one day soon.

at which point, the layout of the whole house will have to change. i am still pondering how this would work and think it would involve getting rid of lots of crap, moving xbox downstairs and maybe getting rid of one of the tvs (if i can talk DH into it!)

Kitchen - small so purely for cooking
Lounge/diner - one half is set out as traditional living room (sofa, tv) and the other half is where vast majority of toys are stored.
Conservatory - we use as dining room.
Main bedroom - ours with large built in wardrobes so lots of storage
2nd bedroom - ds's room. Bed,clothes,more toys.
3rd bedroom - cd's, dvd's,books, huge ironing pile, several new doors awaiting fitting and a whole lot of junk!

Kitchen: quite big, but wrong shape for eating in, open plan to:
Rec 1: Family room, open plan to:
Rec 2: Dinging room, and:
Rec 3: Conservatory - play room.
Rec 4: My studio
Rec 5: Study
Rec 6: Living room
Boot room and utility crammed full of junk stuff to keep forever! Also a shower/WC room, and another separate WC.
3 beds on 1st floor, all children's rooms. And bathroom.
Our room is on the 2nd floor.

Would eventually make the living room into my studio, and my studio into the living room but it's too far from the playroom for me to hear the boys.

Kitchen diner- Cooking, eating, washing
Sitting room - Sofa, chairs, tv, books, boardgames, craft stuff, some toys (my hairdryer is here too actually)
Main bedroom - DC room, their beds, built in wardrobes, airing cupboard, most of the toys
Small bedroom - my room, bed, small chest of drawers
Bathroom - normal bathroom activity

LOL at this thread.

Kitchen - eating, cooking, storing dog beds/paperwork/washer/dryer/laundry baskets x numerous/overspill of toys

Sitting room - TV, books, PC, toys corner, storing paperwork/laundry/filing

Our bedroom - laundry, laundry basket, paperwork, books, and mainly large bed in which all 3 of us fit, and feck knows where we'll put the cot when

DS's room - tidiest room in the house (he spends at most 4 hours in it, asleep, each night!), bed, various toys, armchair from BFing days

Bathroom - can swing a cat but only just

Landing - everything else

I'm moving into the garden shed!

Our house is a semi, it was a bungalow but we've converted the loft to make it a 'villa'. It also has a small extension out the side and a conservatory at the back. It's small but perfectly formed and lately I really feel we've used every room to best advantage.

Downstairs:

Open plan L shaped kitchen/dining/living room.
Kitchen: teeny, just for cooking & storage and I listen to the radio in there.
Dining room: meals, crafts, homework, crockery storage, present wrapping and card writing. We have a small bureau which can be worked from if needed.

Living room: reading, playing, surfing, watching TV/DVDs, playing Wii. Books, photos & 'media storage' here mostly.

Conservatory: toy storage. Shoes, coats, winter woolies, bags etc get hung up here. Display area for artwork . Sofa bed.

Bathroom: as well as the obvious, makeup and over bath clothes dryer.

Study - teeny but fabulous. It has two desks (I WAH and dh does sometimes) and a sofa bed in. We can bung the kids in there to watch DVDs on the desktop computer, it's like a mini cinema for them . We also keep activity stuff in there, swim bag etc - hanging on hooks on the wall.

Side porch - laundry & storage room. Plus we start off seedlings in here, so gardening-y stuff.

Upstairs is not very radical, 3 small bedrooms, toys, & clothes storage! We've a small ensuite which the kids use.

This is the way it is now, with 2 kids 7 and 4. I am sure when they were littler I had different uses - ds got his nappy changed in the study for example and I'm certain my clothes rarely made it upstairs when I was barfed on 8x per day. I think a dressing room downstairs could actually be a really good idea - imagine no hauling laundry up and down stairs - but I'd choose a playroom or a TV den - a second living space - over that.