Are small bedrooms a no go in your forever home

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Looking for our next move to be to our forever home.

Have seen somewhere in budget, one more bedroom that minimum, downstairs space & kitchen are superb.

We have two currently little DDS.

But all bedrooms bar the master are on the small size, singles, no room big enough for them to share. This would work for now, but what about teenage years, do small bedrooms become problematic?

How small is small? I was wondering the same about a house as the smallest room was 3x2.84m. Then I measured my old childhood bedroom as a comparison and it was the exact same size. Growing up I never considered my room too small. My mum now has one if those small doubles in there that admittedly takes up most of the room but it's fine

We bought the house by the way.

One is 2.9x1.9 m the other is 2.8 X 2.7, so pretty small. There is a guest suite downstairs which is 4x2m which could be used as they get older.

I had a small bedroom as a teenager & it was fine. I got the small room and my younger brother got a much bigger room because he was still at the stage of playing in his room whereas I was past that and didn't need so much space

My 3 share because they prefer 1 big room rather than 3 small ones - I think they are unusual though.

2 of mine will likely fly the nest in the next 5 years and then I would rather have a bigger guest room to come back for visits than small singles - depends how forever "forever" means.

I don't think I'd go for one that small. Our current 3rd bedroom is a box room and it's just too small to comfortable use as a bedroom.

If you can't fit a single bed, a wardrobe and chest of drawers then it's too small. (or a wardrobe big enough to have some drawers inside). If you can then I don't think your kids will think it's a problem!

If the house has enough other areas to hang out a bit separate from the family hubbub (to do homework at a desk, comfy chair to read a book away from the TV, more than one reception room so teens can socialise with their friends with some privacy) I think small bedrooms don't matter. They just need to be big enough for a bed and decent clothes storage plus some shelves for personal bits and bobs.

That's a really good point about having a separate downstairs space for some peace and quiet. We could put a summer house in when they are older. Hummmm. Need to think on.