Would you buy a 5 bed house with only 3 bedrooms upstairs?

[Jas8085]

Its being advertised as a 5 bed house. But two of the bedrooms are downstairs (extension of a 3 bed house). We are a family of 4. So our bedroom and the kids bedrooms will be upstairs. Guest bedroom downstairs. Would this work?

Asking price is in the same region as other 4-5 bed properties with all the bedrooms upstairs.

Is there anything I am not considering or seeing here?

[flownthecoopkiwi]

hmm, we are buying a 4 bed, but there's a room downstairs you could call a 5th bedroom, but it's not marketed as such.
Then again almost bought a 5 bed, that was really a 3 bed upstairs and then two rooms downstairs that were really a study/playroom

cheeky

[rallytog1]

We've just bought a house like this and I love it. It gives real flexibility.

[dotdotdotmustdash]

If you're still living there when/if you become old and frail, then you have no need to move to a flat or bungalow - there will be plenty of ground floor space for you.

[Whisky2014]

Me and my partner just bought a 5br house. 3 up and 2 down. We have 0 kids so it's just us at the mo :) We have made the downstairs rooms the guest rooms and we think its fab!

[mirokarikovo]

Those properties really irritate me. Usually it is obvious that at least one of the downstairs "bedrooms" is actually the dining room and no amount of twittering about how lovely it is to eat in the lovely extended kitchen-diner will make it a bedroom. The other is a study. It is not a 5 bedroom house.

An actual 5 bedroom house has 5 bedrooms upstairs and therefore has the footprint for downstairs to comfortably contain kitchen, utility, dining room, TV room/den, smart sitting room, study etc without pretending that any of these are bedrooms.

[RTKangaMummy]

Miro they can be found cos we have one IMHO and IME it depends how the house is extended or configured

We have built a side and rear extensions to include bedroom and wet/bathroom due to disability needs, DH study/office, utility room & TV/den room these are all extra rooms to the original house so the dining room and formal sitting rooms, kitchen etc and upstairs bedrooms & bathrooms are still there

When we come to sell in > 10 years these extra rooms can be used for whatever the new homeowner wants them for but we extended for us but hopefully it would still be viable to be used for whatever they want

I do think that have extra rooms downstairs is very useful so that they can be used for music room or games room or children's playroom or extra rooms for teenagers when they have friends round that aren't bedrooms with beanbags in and extra TV & PS4 or gym or a guest room for the PIL so that they have privacy and so do OP and her DH while PIL are visiting

[GrowingAPea]

It would be beneficial when you're elderly!

[Joinourclub]

Sounds ideal for a lot of people. Good to have the bedrooms you need upstairs, and the flexible spare bedroom / other use space downstairs. I'd love a downstairs bedroom for guests. I'd probably invite the in laws to stay for longer if I did!

[namechangedtoday15]

The only thing I would say is how does it compare in size to other 5 bedroomed properties in the area? You say its similar in price, but what about area?

For me, a 5 bed house with all 5 bedrooms upstairs is likely to be a bigger house (as you need the same square footage downstairs to support the upstairs if you see what I mean). A "5 bed" with 3 rooms upstairs, but extended downstairs, will invariably be smaller - it would (in my mind) be a 3 bed that's had a single storey extension.

If it works for your family, and is flexible, then perfect, but I don't think many buyers in the future will class it as a "5 bed" and that may impact on value.