Planning to put our house on the market - advice please

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We have a 3 bedroom house which we plan on putting on the market shortly. We are currently decluttering and styling the house ready. Our 3rd bedroom is bigger than the other houses on the street but it still isn’t large. It’s 4.2x2.6m so narrow. I can’t work out where to put the bed! It’s currently an office but it’s very much a family home so I want to style it up as 3 bedrooms.

1st question - would you bother?
2nd - where do I put the bed?

For context, the door is at one end and the window at the other. The bed needs to go lengthways or we won’t get a double bed in here. What does everyone think? It can only go by the window but then does that look ridiculous!

My son's room is 4m x 2.6m and when we bought it they had a double bed going across the room so across the 2.6m part because beds are 1.9m long or 2m maximum if 6'6" there is still room to walk past the bottom of the bed.

He has a single bed which is at the window end and down the length of the 4m part. However the door is on the other side wall of the 4m and not at the end. This allows a wall banked with wardrobes across the 2.6m part.

I would leave it as an office, at that size it easily fits a single bed in it. If it gets difficult to sell you could always have an AI photo of it styled with a single bed but make it very clear this is what it could look like.

The other thing is make sure the estate agent labels the photos, I hate it when it just has a picture number and no more information.

Don't hide anything under beds, you can usually see these in photos. Another pet peeve of mine is curtains, make sure they are open and straight, clear window sills, backs of doors, tops of wardrobes, tops of kitchen cabinets, clear the worktops for the photos. Make sure the bathroom does not have 18 bottles of shampoos and body wash, it just looks cluttered. You can always put stuff back after photos are taken. We actually hired a small storage unit and put loads of things in there as we had grown into the space, so we took out a load of things. And the best of luck to you for selling.

Do you hace enough space for day bed that can turn into a double bed? (the mattress and base collapses and is stored under the main bed

All very good advice. Our house is clutter free. Nothing drives me more insane than seeing clutter everywhere. We have added loads of built in storage so everything has a home. When we moved in there wasn’t a single piece of storage. We didn’t even have kitchen units 😂

Only if I remove other furniture. One half is my office space so desk, shelves and then the other side is wardrobes and chest of drawers. I have two big wardrobes and a huge chest of drawers. I work from home so I’m going to keep it as is and if people can’t visualise a bed in the room, I’ll reconsider.

We've just sold and our agent told us not to bother putting a bed in the room we had set up as an office - she said people would be able to see that a bed would fit in there.

As a compromise I went onto the Ikea website and used their furniture planner to do a layout of the room used as a bedroom, printed it out and left it prominently on the desk.

Many people WFH so office space is needed.

Not so many people as during the Covid craze for space, it isn"t a massive selling point now.

I’d just leave it as a home office, some people will be looking for that anyway. Those that do need to use it as a third bedroom will be able to work out if it’s big enough for their needs from the floor plan measurements

Guess it depends where you are I'd say 75% of the people I know WFH at least half the week

Fair enough, but it won"t make any difference if the house is overpriced, a box room to stick a computer in isn"t a major selling point IMO, if people must work from home they will do it from a flat if necessary.