Would you live in a flat where the only bedroom is on a mezzanine?

[ploppythepoop]

The mezzanine is over/open to the kitchen/living/dining room. So this effectively means that it feels like one big space.

It also means that if you have guests over to sleep on a sofa bed, you're all sharing one room. What if someone farts in their sleep? etc.

Could you reconfigure the space or impossible?

No I wouldn't like that at all

So is the bed on a sort of shelf in a room with a high ceiling? Does it have a proper staircase access or 🤢 just a ladder.

We stayed in a hotel with this arrangement once ( not ladder), they called it a ‘junior suite’ 😅. We asked to be moved after two nights. The slight advantage of having a sofa and a table was offset by not being on the same floor as the loo.

well there is that

I don’t think it would bother me, if it was just me living there, or me and a partner providing we had similar sleep patterns.
How often do you have guests that this would even be an issue?

It’s basically a studio apartment, isn’t it. Seems like a slightly nicer version of a studio. If they were my alternatives, I’d prefer this, but if actual places with actual bedrooms were my alternatives, I’d go for them.

I wouldn't consider it now, and I would never buy a place like that. But when I was in my early 20s I might have liked it and rented it.

Two words

Cooking. Smells.

I occasionally rent a tiny cottage by the sea with this arrangement, but it’s a pain after a night or two, and depending on whether it’s a stairs/ladder, mildly hazardous for sleepy night-time loo trips.

Done it a couple of times - I think it's great for a singleton/couple as the place felt spacious (one had floor to ceiling, double height windows - it was fabulous) - even had it when DS1 was a baby and liked it because I could always hear him. Both of the times I lived in these kinds of studio we had ensuite upstairs and a toilet downstairs

I've also stayed in one as a guest of a family member, and yes, it's a little bit odd being able to hear each other, but not a big deal - a bit like camping really.

Big fat no. Apart from the guest problem, heat rises, so it will always be warmer in the mezzanine and if it’s in a roof space it will be even worse for holding heat.

However a bigger no for me is going to bed breathing in the lingering smells from the kitchen which will rise to fill the sleeping area. Worse than going to sleep in a cloud of curry is waking up to the fug of the kitchen the morning after.

Finally, a mezzanine means that if one of you wants to go to bed, the other has to be very quiet, telly turned down etc

These arrangements are fine for occasional use, definitely not for permanent living arrangements.

I used to
tbh it was so tiny that upstairs only fitted a small double and a chest of drawers.

kitchen was a tiny block thing (fridge, 2 burner stove, sink)

it was in a good area with balkony and pleasant communal gardens. was ok for single life.

It depends on whether it is very spacious/properly double height, with stairs up to the mezzanine rather than a ladder and with a toilet on the sleeping level. If it’s all crammed in to a tiny low spec space then no.

Fine for young singles/couples if it’s a cool loft apartment.

I guess you assess the suitability/willingness of overnight guests on a case-by-case basis. Agree it would not work if you are in your twenties and have your parents to stay very often, but who at that age does?

I would have to be in my early twenties, and the property be an absolute bargain that would appreciate considerably in value over a shortish period of time to allow me to significantly profit when moving on. Have you really found such a bargain ? I assume your talking about buying because a short term rent in such a situation would obviously be acceptable if that's what you needed temporarily

Yeah it's a high spec apartment. The living room has a double height ceiling and huge windows, and then the mezzanine is a proper floor with a large en suite.

It's not an after thought. There's a nice solid wood staircase not a ladder.

I would if I lived on my own with occasional guests. I wouldn’t buy a property like that though as it would have limited appeal but I’d give it a go as a rental.

Sounds lovely.

I need dark to sleep and presume windows downstairs likely kitchen without a proper blind. so I’d need to curtain off which defeats the purpose.

I love quirky homes so that would appeal to me 🥰

I think it would have a limited market when you came to sell, for the same reasons as your current quandary.

No, that’s not a room, it’s a ponced up shelf.

Do you have a link to the listing? Would love to have a nosy. Sounds lovely.

If not keen on the mezzanine could you wall it in?

If I find myself living alone, I think it would be fine.

I’m not inclined to have overnight guests anymore, except perhaps my own child when she becomes an adult, because of the severity of my allergies. Most people aren’t going to be able to follow the necessary rules.

No, I don't even like open plan on the ground floor so the bedroom being effectively open plan wouldn't appeal to me. I like to cook, I like the cooking and food smells confined to a kitchen with a closable interior door and a back door which opens to the outside.