What would you class as a small, average and large house?

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Interested on others perspectives.

Our house is 108 square meters in total and I feel its small. I grew up in houses four times the size, so maybe Im spoilt?

DH thinks our house is fine but he grew up in houses of the same size.

Sometimes I have felt a bit embarrassed when relatives or dd friends have said comments along the lines of "oh its nice- but really small".

Then others have around and said it seemed quite big.

I suppose I class our house as small, an average house about 130-160 and larger anything over 160 square meters.

What do you think?

Unless ofc retailers start selling 190cm length beds for houses built after 1980s

Thats the thing furniture seems to be getting bigger and houses smaller.

Makes no sense

I would say average in the UK is a 3 bed terrace or semi with one bathroom, perhaps a downstairs toilet, 3rd room being a single. Perhaps a garage depending on age of house.

We're househunting at the moment and looking for a 4 bed, 3 recep. Plenty of new builds around with 5 or 6 beds in our price range and area but haven't seem a decent one yet as the bedrooms are tiny. Even the master bedrooms aren't usually big enough for free-standing furniture and there are usually single and double bedrooms where you don't really have clearance to open and close the door properly once the bed is in. To my mind, if you have to open the door, sidle in, then close the door before you can move round the bed, then it is definitely not a double bedroom. I'd rather have fewer and larger bedrooms. Our shortlist is Victorian and Edwardian because of this.

When people calculate area, do they include hallways, loos, bathrooms?

The other thing I really love about the older houses is having a decent sized hall. I've looked at too many new builds where the hall is too small to get coats and boots off the 2 DC. We're renting a 4 bed new house while we house hunt and there's not even room for a row of coat hooks. Even if the landlord let us put one up, we'd have to limbo under it to get past.

Bumblequeen it's currently the nursery with a cotbed in it. We were thinking of moving DD into the larger bedroom and turning the box room into the guest room. I measured it, and it's only 194cm. It's a square room, the other wall has a radiator and the third/forth is the door. So there's only one way to fit the bed. It's ridiculous because 194cm is shorter than a standard single bed. They shouldn't be able to call it a bedroom if you can't even fit a single bed inside. It should be a study or a nursery only. (It'll fit a cot bed or a toddler bed, but they are only 150cm long).

Even the master bedrooms aren't usually big enough for free-standing furniture and there are usually single and double bedrooms where you don't really have clearance to open and close the door properly once the bed is in.

That's us!!

I live in a small house now little 2 bed with kitchen diner and loving room- I want to move to a average house this year which I would class a semi-detached 3 bedroom with 2 reception rooms and garage.
A big house to me is detached 4 bed+

kindlemum When people calculate area, do they include hallways, loos, bathrooms? I don't know the answer because like many others, I got my house floor size from the EPC. But I think these extra areas make a difference. Like you say, a decent entrance hall is very good to have. Our tiny 80s house has a hall that is one door wide and two doors long. There is no where to hang coats or leave shoes. Once you enter the second door, it's an open plan living area. (So popular with newer builts because obviously a corridor is a waste of space).

we have a small 3 bed.... one through lounge/diner and a kitchen downstairs (never again - there is no where to "escape" to when everything takes place in one room!) the bedrooms are 2 just double and a single, one loo and it is in the bathroom - typical 70s redbrick box house.

Wishfulmakeupping I think we would all like to hear more about your loving room :-)

Ha oh yes! I'm sure my OH would like to hear more about it too!

Its all relative surely? We have a big living room and kitchen, all open plan, but no dining room. Big table though, just not a separate room. The only 2 rooms downstairs that aren't open plan are the playroom and the loo. 4 double bedrooms upstairs. I'd say our house is average to big for the area. I'd say a 2 bed mid terrace in our village is small. And a 5 or 6 bed on the outskirts of the village is big.

We made our house seem much bigger by knocking through, extending a bit, reorganising and we have a massive hall which gives a feeling of space. The disadvantage of space is that you can lose the cosy.

Some houses have teeny upstairs with widgy bedrooms, others more evenly proportioned.

I think for me it's the other way round. I have what is a fairly small three bed terrace (London). It's about 1200 sq ft. It could always be bigger but what I like about it is that it's on four floors so you feel that you can spread across the house without tripping over each other. I like the fact that it's not open plan (apart from the kitchen/diner which is the absolute best thing in my life) because although the rooms are not at all big, they are not all together in one big area.

I remember the first Christmas we had the open plan kitchen. I couldn't believe how much people helped! Washing up everything I put down on the island etc.

It makes you keep it tidy though. I'm not an esp tidy person but it makes you so as its always on show.

It's more to do with sq ft than number of rooms.

Having a one huge, light, spacious room will feel better than lots of pokey dark small rooms.

small 2 bed flat, or terrace 2 bedrooms maybe boxroom,
1 reception room kitchen/diner and 1 bathroom,

average 3 double beds or 2 double and decent single 1 bathroom and downstairs toilet, kitchen diner big enough for table and 1 -2 reception may or may not have garage but will have garden unless a big flat

4 beds with 2 receptions and single garage probably still average

large 4+ bedrooms at least 2 reception rooms kitchen big enough to eat in too
garden with shed, (a garage unless in centre of city like a georgian townhouse) 2 proper bathrooms, utility room possibly study/playroom too feels spacious, useable attic or cellar plenty of storage

We partly based our house purchase on price per sqm. You can always change the layout but the space is set (unless you extend obvs)

We're in London in a terraced house and technically have 5 beds - but you'd have to re-hang the door to get a bed in the little room! We use it as a study. Other bedrooms are a good size. We have 2 bathrooms, sep loo, and a knock-through sitting room. Kitchen is a good size (side return done). It is about 2000 sq ft and we could (if we won the lottery) convert the loft (which would make it bedroom heavy). For my part of london, it is Big imo. I love it. Tiny garden and backs onto a railyway.

Thanks wonkylegs, what an interesting link. It's nice to have some figures to compare floorplan / EPC m2 values to.

Really interesting link. I am always taken aback by the titchiness of some new builds - DH's parents have a 3 bed detached new build, the footprint of which including (completely pointless imo) garage and three bathrooms would probably fit into our (Victorian) sitting room. Having said that it seems to cost pence to heat and maintain. We are in a typical London terrace with 4 double beds, fully extended up into the loft and to the side return. About 185 sqm/2000 sq ft. It feels absolutely enormous to me as I grew up in tiny 2 bed with three siblings, and it looks as if it genuinely is quite big according to that report. But the garden is tiny, as they all are in my part of London.