Parents taking smallest room - would this work?

[dogsandbunnies]

We are looking at a house which is perfect in every way except the third bedroom is small-ish whereas the other two are decent doubles. There is also a study type room which we don’t need as neither of us can work from home. Would it work to give each of our teenagers a big room and for us to take the small one? There’s room for our King Size bed but not much else! We could make the study into our dressing room… To me this makes sense as we use the rest of the house more whereas the teens are often in their rooms and need space for desks etc.
In a few years when (if) they’ve moved out we can reconfigure things.

Have you done this? Is there something I’m not thinking about?

Makes perfect sense to me, as you said you don't spend much time in your room and the kids do.

I wouldn’t.

Give the teens a coin and flip for it - the other teen can use the 4the bedroom as a study - or they can use it to entertain friends between them - stick a sofa and tv in there

If you are happy why not? It’s just for sleeping in

We did it, we took the box room. It fitted a bed and 2 bedside tables. It worked perfectly well.

Our solution was this. We have the small room. It's working.

I’ve got the smallest bedroom here & ds has what would traditionally be the master bedroom, works fine - he has Lego to store I don’t!

I wouldn’t compromise on the size of bed or wardrobe space but if you can have your king size + a dressing room then sounds like a great set up for everyone

just do whatever suits your family.

Depending on the layout you could also give the teens both a small room each for sleeping and make the 2nd large room into a teen hangout. You then have the other larger room.

But equally I agree - grownups dont spend much time in thier rooms so makes sense to have it this way until they all move out.

It's literally your home. Use it as you wish

I actually love the idea of a room that has just my bed in it. No clutter keeps it really easy to keep tidy and make it a relaxing space. Would be very happy with a smaller bedroom if I had a functional separate dressing room. We did something similar in our last rental property before we bought our house, because we were on a funny schedule where I was nearly always up a couple of hours before DH . Wardrobes etc went into the largest bedroom which also functioned as our guest room, and we slept in the second bedroom. It meant I didn't disturb him while I was getting ready for work.

We have our third bedroom as a dressing room. The main bedroom has the super king bed, small bedside tables and a double wardrobe in an alcove.

The dressing room has wardrobes along one wall, a chest of drawer on another and dressing table etc on the third. Windows are on the fourth.

Sounds like a great idea - and like you said, can reconfigure when they move out. It’s your house, do what works for you all.

Yes i’d do this too.

I'd love a clear room to sleep in plus a separate dressing room with clothes and other clutter. So long as you have space for bedside tables it sounds really nice.

Yes. We took the middle bedroom, 2 shared the largest and 3rd took the smallest.

Are they next to each other- Could you knock through? Either just a door way or completely open up?

No not next to each other. A couple of you mentioned that it would be nice to have a clutter free space just to rest and I actually like the idea of that!

I wouldn't buy a house if all the rooms are sizeable, even if it's at Buckingham Palace. I lived in one with my family for 10+ years and it was a nightmare