13' by 6' 10" - is this just too small even for a child's room

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For reasons to long to go into, I'm considering dividing one large room into small rooms for the children. The smaller of the two rooms will be 13' x 6'10". Is this a waste of time and I should just - oh I don't know - move house or something. I can't picture it properly. It's pretty small isn't it?

I lived in a room that size til I was 18. You could just get a full-size single bed going across the short direction, so maybe more like 6'8.

Our house is Victorian and ds's room is 13 x 5.6. Its fine.

See we all want floor plans now so we can help design for you!

dd room will be 7 by 6

and Olive ds2) 6 footer has a cabin bed and yes he is very near the ceiling and can not sit up .He has perfected the roll of the bed to get down

oo if i get chance to do some plans can someone help me sort out rooms .I shall have 3 bedrooms one for me and by default its the biggest due to the fact it has a thru floor lift in t .

Then will have 2 smaller rooms and have ds1 17 and ds2 15 .then dd age 8 and ds3 age 6 but has sn so more like a 4 year old .

ds1 and ds2 have always shared and works ok for them but unsure am thinking about carving tiny amount of mine for dd and ds3 in the box

Downastairs all open plan so that wont work

Thats fine for children's rooms. OK, in an ideal workld, the rooms would be bigger, but everyone has to work with what they have. Much better, I think, to allow the DC to have separate small bedrooms than to share a very large one, especially as they get older.

I second the idea of a cabin bed, and also using the fiull height of the room (I assume that the ceilings are not very very low) for storage. Bear in mind that the hanging space they will want when they're small is not the hanging space they'll want when they're teenagers.

If there is a cabin type bed which will accommodate a desk and a chair underneath, and you can fit in a small single wardrobe and a chest of drawers somewhere you'll be fine. The wardrobe can be used for storage now, and for clothes storage as they get bigger. Use any other space for toys and books storage with those floating shelves.

Aspace do lovely looking cabin beds.

We lived in lots of houses when I was a child and I always had a bedroom smaller than that - generally about 6.5 x 10 foot - bed along short wall, wardrobe, desk and chest of drawers along one long wall. Fine.

Just one thing, get a vertical bunk or cabin bed ladder. DD1s sticks out into the narrowest bit of her very odd shaped room. I'm forever catching my toe on it!

we are in 1930's semi and ds's room is 6' x 6'!

Could you not put the bed across the 6'10" bit?

Ds1's room is long and narrow, and we fitted all the furniture down one long wall. He doesn't need to play on the floor in there, mainly sits on his bed playing on ninentdo ds reading or works at his desk. He is 8.

Ds2 had the wider but shorter room as he played with cars on the floor etc.

Use masking tape and mark the furniture out on the floor then you can see what you are dealing with.

Before we moved to this house I plotted out where all the furniture was going. A laser tape measure make measuring up very quick, Dh measured, I did rough sketch of room and marked the dimensions on.

Agree with Fizzy. My son's room is narrow and long. By getting him a divan, without posts / headboard / etc, we were able to put the bed across the end, which left a good big square for him to play in (we built a wardrobe across the other end).

Ds' room is about that size, we have put shelves in, the floating ones from Ikea and a narrow but tall chest of drawers. That saves space. He did have a cabin bed with storeage under it when he was younger and it worked fine. Also we have an outside 'den' and stored a lot of his play stuff in there.

OP I am looking at dividing the eat-in bit of my kitchen into a small bedroom (for me - my DS gets the big bedroom!) and that room would only be 8 ft 3 x 6ft 6. I'm looking at getting a studybed so that I can use that space as my study and my bedroom (www.studybed.com) - not cheap but will give me more space. Get yourself some squared graph paper, measure up and draw a floorplan so you can decide how the furniture would fit before you decide whether to go ahead or not?

I will be dividing my room into two for my Dc's soon too.

Ds will have 7' 5" x 8' 9" and no doorways and Dd will have 7' 4" x 8' 9" and two doorways; one to get into the room and another that goes into a cupboard over the stairs. Ds will have to walk through Dd's 'room' to get to his and I'm dividing the areas by putting old wooden wardrobe doors up hinged together concertina style and then curtains along Dd's side of the doors to lighten it up a bit (doors dark wood). I think it will work well and will give them their own space and privacy. Ds is 13.4 and Dd will be 5 this month, so there is a big gap and big differences in interests not to mention puberty going on too for Ds plus GCSE's etc.
I think your Dc's will have plenty of room each if you plan it out properly.

Solo, I feel mean saying this when you have obviously planned it all out but when I viewed my current house they had a similar situation except it was a permanent wall that divided the rooms but the walk through one room to get to the other was the same.

My mortgage company wouldn't agree to the mortgage until both bedrooms had their own door due to fire regulations. Is there any way to have a door to each room?

Op, sounds fine to me.

No, there isn't Buck. Also, I don't really want it to be a permanent thing, so just having hinged doors means I can open the area up when I need to to clean etc, plus (hopefully) Ds will be off to Uni in 5 years time and Dd can have a less restricted area albeit still her brothers. I'm not planning on selling (I wish I could though), so that wont be an issue and if I did, I could just open it up into one room again! :) thanks for the feedback though.

Instead of beds for the kids, use single futons on the floor. During the day put cushions and a throw on them. Doing so massively increases the perception of space - instead of taking up masses space and height the futon just acts like a cross between an extension of the floor and a sofa. We have done this with DD's room (which is smaller than the one you are proposing) and it works brilliantly. She loves it and so do her friends!