What is the ideal ratio of living space to bedroom space in a house

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I have this big bee in my bonnet about houses that have to many bedrooms in proportion to their living space, e.g. 5 bedroom house with 1/ 2 reception rooms.

What in your view is the ideal ratio of living space to bedroom space.

In our smallish 2 up 2 down we have more living space than bedroom space at the moment and I know this will change if we move but some houses I have looked at have twice as much bedroom space to living space (e.g. houses with massive loft conversions where 2 bedrooms put in loft).

I know you can always use a bedroom for something else but what do you think the ideal ratio is?

One or two more bedrooms that receptions I think is ideal.

So a 3 reception room house shoudl have 4 or 5 bedrooms. A 4 bedroom house shoudl have 2 or 3 receptions.

That's the rule

I have 3 bedrooms to 2 reception and 1 tiny kitchen.
Ideally we would have 5 bedrooms with, 1 large lounge, 1 dining room, 1 playroom, 1 kitchen large enough to eat in/store food in, 1 cloakroom and 1 utility room. so that's 5 to 3
I would settle for 4 beds with 3 receptions and a decent kitchen though

Never going to happen unless I buy/rent out of my price zone or I can get 2 houses knocked together.

I do agree though that houses are becoming narrow and tall with a huge lack of downstairs space. This is now due to builders cramming houses onto small sites and building up to give extra rooms

We have three reception rooms plus kitchen and utility, and six bedrooms. We moved from a house with two reception rooms/kitchen and five bedrooms - which we felt was top heavy and didn't fit the way we wanted to live.

Agreed that houses are becoming increasingly bedroom-heavy. Estate agents and, by extension, buyers seem to have become a bit obssessed with selling/buying a house on the basis of number of bedrooms. Which is why we ended up with a two-bedroom flat with one huge bedroom, one medium-sized bedroom, a really big reception space, big kitchen plus utility/storage space, and a garden. All the other three bedroom houses and flats we looked at had tiny living spaces and almost zero storage space, but were more expensive as they had three bedrooms. But I guess that's London for you!

But then again I also think it depends on the size of the bedrooms! We only have a small lounge/diner (2 rec rooms), but my daughter's room is large enough for both children to play comfortably in it, so it kind of doubles up as more room.

My big bug bear with the new builds is the complete lack of any cupboard space and idea that a big bathroom will do 3 bedrooms ...

We have 4 bedrooms (3 fairly big decent sized doubles and 1 boxy single) and 2 full bathrooms and one downstairs loo. 1 big kitchen/diner, 1 big lounge and small utility room. We want to extend into the basement now though as we've already done a loft conversion (bedroom and ensuite bathroom) and need more space. We want to put in a fifth bedroom (a big double) with ensuite bathroom and another big lounge/reception. Do you guys think this will be too bedroom heavy?

*I realise basements arent ideal for bedrooms but it will we are going to put in a few light wells and maybe external access too to make it more bright.