Kids' Basement Bedrooms?
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Comments (11)I agree with a lot of what has already been said. If you are building this house with no intentions of ever moving, it doesn't really matter what other people think. If there is a possibility that you may move, however, I wouldn't have all the bedrooms in the basement. I think that some people even have a hard time dealing with a split plan where the master is on the main floor and the rest of the bedrooms are on the 2d floor and even more people have a problem with a house where are the kids are in the basement. That's not to say that people couldn't get over that feature, it's just that it becomes a "negative" that a potential homebuyer needs to overlook or deal with before deciding to purchase your home. In this market, at least, one would like to eliminate as many of those negatives as possible. I also agree with the idea that it's hard to anticipate your child rearing needs before you actually have kids. I guess that's the disadvantage of building a home before having kids, but at the same time planning to add kids into the mix. What works for you is so unpredictable and personal. If I designed my house before having kids, I think it would have looked a lot different than the home I designed after having kids. But I understand that we don't all have the luxury of that timing. Best of luck!...See MoreNeed basement pool/guest bedroom/living area shared bath solution
Comments (2)Consider making the pool bath have a door to the living room. Makes sense if people go in there to shower and change after the pool to not have to go back outside to enter again. You can make the other bathroom just an en suit then, which is great if you ever decide to use that room for an in-law suit or something down the road. Think about putting a linen closet in the pool bath too. It will be so much easier to just keep pool item there like beach towels, sunscreen, and other stuff there. If your kids fall and scrape their knee by the pool how great will it be to have bandaids right there? I agree the closet looks odd in the middle of the room. Eliminate it, make it into two separate ones so each bathroom has storage. Put a closet in the corner of the living room near the hall. Or better yet make it into a dry bar with cabinets, shelves, and a beverage fridge....See Morebasement flooring advice - kids' playroom
Comments (1)If you have a flood risk in the basement, I'd say something waterproof like tile or terrazzo. For the playroom area, put down a big cheap area rug (like a section of basic carpet that's not nailed down). Then if it floods again or the kids make a gross mess or spill, you can haul the rug out and get it cleaned, and the floor underneath will be unaffected....See MoreKids bedroom size
Comments (58)My girls grew up in identical 12x12 rooms with modest closets. It was okay; I'd have been happy to give up a bit of floor space for more closet space. Over the 30 years my family's owned this house, those rooms have supported the following furniture arrangements comfortably: - two twins with a nightstand between them + a double dresser - one queen flanked by two nightstands + a double dresser + a chest of drawers (that arrangement was a bit tight) - one full-sized bed + a double dresser + two large bookshelves We just moved our youngest into a college apartment, and I spent the night with her last weekend. (I measure everything, by the way.) Her bedroom is 11x13, and she has a full-sized bed + milk crates /boards stacked up for a bookshelf. That room is VERY comfortable because she has a walk-in closet that absorbs most of the stuff, and she doesn't have alllllll her cluttery stuff from home. A good rule of thumb: Consider the bed you want to place in the room, and allow 3' of walking space on each side. That's a VERY comfortable measurement. Also, if you expect to stay in this house long-term, consider that -- at some point -- this child may come back to visit ... with a spouse in tow. You'd want to provide a queen-sized bed ... though you could probably count on that bed being near-the-only-thing-in-the-room at that point....See Morelazypup
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