Considering making lounge a bedroom

[fourplusfour]

Currently living temporarily with family whilst looking for a place to buy for myself and 3 DCs. Ideally we'd each like our own room but four beds are pretty much out of our budget. Would I be mad to consider a 3 bed with someone sleeping in the lounge? I'm thinking long term with rising living costs so running a bigger home would be more expensive and 2 DC are adults so only likely to be living at home for a couple of years anyway. Has anyone done this?

Sounds sensible enough to me in the circumstances, especially if two bedrooms are likely to be freed up soon. If possible, I'd try to carve out a bit of communal living space (ie. a sofa) in the kitchen.

In London houseshares landlords are always turning lounges into bedrooms!

Is a home with 2 reception rooms doable? I had what should of been the dining room as a bedroom until I move out, my mothers now turned it back to a dining toom. Otherwise perhaps a larger living room you could Partition?

I'm hoping to find something with a separate lounge then have a decent kitchen/diner. Like I say hopefully in a couple of years, at least one of the bedrooms would be freed up anyway. Thanks for commenting.

Yeah that'd be grand, especially if you can get a parlour house.

I think it would be fine if the bedroom could still be converted back to a lounge easy enough. I would imagine that teens/young adults may still want to have friends around, to watch a film, game, hand out. And it would be nice to still have usable space to do that and then you could convert back to a bedroom in the evening.

Good point @mindutopia. I'm thinking a good quality sofabed may be needed

I think its perfectly normal way to maximise space.
Some people also put a cabin or static caravan in the garden if enough room

My DC’s student houses all had this set up. It means there’s limited communal living area but you’ll get your own bedroom.

We live in our kitchen/diner, which actually also holds two sofas, Bluetooth radio and telly. I even mostly work from the sofa on a laptop table.

The official living room is now a sort of hybrid office/dumping ground, with the sofas nearly inaccessible.

So it’s not so mad to start off with the lounge properly repurposed.

Ooh I hadn't thought of a caravan. That might work too.
Thanks for all your replies.

I wouldn't want to be without a living room long term. Nor would I want to be sleeping in a room that others were using as a living room long term.
If you had 2 Reception rooms then it makes sense, but I think if you only have one 'sitting room' and a kitchen / diner, then I think having 2 of the dc sharing a bedroom would work better than trying to camp out in the living room.

Definitely look at 3 bedroom houses. My house actually has a space under the stairs big enough to put a bed in (not sure I would put a whole teenager in there lol), there are lots of options. Mine is ex council which tends to give you more space for your money.

I did this in my last house. I gave the largest two bedrooms to my teenagers with the intent of me having the smallest room as i was eternally single and didnt spend much time in my room. I then met somebody (he didnt move in but stayed a couple of nights a week) and suddenly the room was too small so I moved into the front reception room. It worked perfectly for us as the room was never used as we had a rear reception room too, also had a downstairs loo so no problems with traipsing upstairs in the night.

We currently have teen ds downstairs in our 2nd reception room. Still have a living room and a kitchen diner tho so still the normal living areas can be used by everyone... I wouldn't want a bedroom instead of main living room as where would people chill of an evening and where would guests/visitors sit - you wouldn't always want to be in the kitchen! And where would you keep your clothes etc?