What constitutes large rooms?

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I was wondering what you would class as bigger than average rooms? bedroom/living room'dining etc.

I told a friend about a house up for sale that had 10x8 bedrooms and she said they were a really good size.

I'm always getting itchy feet about moving and have decent sized rooms so wonder if its worth doing.
thanks

Totally subjective and can very much depend on what part of the country you are in.

Our biggest bedroom in our titchy cottage is 11 by 10 - that is a good size for the area and bigger than the brand new flats across the road.

I generally think large rooms are lovely and square like 15 by 15 - there is much more of a sense of space.

I find the modern fashion for having longer thin rooms very unappealing and claustrophobic - there is a trend near me in the 4 bed 'executive' houses to have bedrooms that are 13 foot by 7 foot - yuk!

We live in a 3bed terraced with decent sized rooms and are always looking at modern houses but like you said some of the rooms have quite bizarre sizing.

It would make financial sense to convert the attic to a 4th room (when or if we ever get our finances sorted)

We live in the North West and a lot of the houses seem to be no bigger if not smaller than ours but with a lot more rooms.

10 x 8 room is a good size??? I think not! Once you've got a standard double in there there's not going to be much room for anything else. I would say around 15 x 12 is more liveable. For living space, I reckon any room narrower than about 12 feet is too narrow. Overall square footage of a house is a much-underused way of valuing/ assessing a home IMHO, not number of bedrooms etc.

Hope I don't sound spoilt - we are in rented at the moment and looking to buy - am finding that houses built in the 30s, 50s-70s are much more reasonably sized than victorian homes (generally tiny round us, what a premium for a few original fireplaces) or anything more modern, especially anything built in 80s and 90s. What were the developers thinking??!! (I know really, they were thinking $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ kerchinnng!).

WE have 15x14ft rooms downstairs and 3 big bedrooms.

The only modern houses of similar size are waywaywayway out of our price range!!

I'd love a house with big rooms but for now (and probably ever really - a 3rd room for dd3 is much more of a priority!) I'll just have to keep searching out space saving ideas to make them seem bigger.
I think it would be lovely to have a bedroom with a proper dressing table and chair, or an armchair to sit in or even a sofa!!

I consider a 12' x 12' room to be a standard size room, as every house I've lived in before this one has had rooms that size.
Don't know how that compares with others though.
DS' bedroom is around 10x8, with an alcove, it's what I'd consider a single bedroom.
Mine,at 15x12, I'd consider a large double.

I asked my friend this question and about moving and she said you could have the biggest poshest house ever (never going to happen) and it would still be full of crap. Very true