Small Bedroom - how small is too small?
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Are these bedrooms too small?
Comments (5)Ugh...just typed a long response and lost it! Thank you all for your feedback. Mrs. Pete, yes, definitely a first world problem! On the other hand, it costs a small fortune to build here (Caribbean) and takes forever and a day to sell at the best of times, so I need to make sure I appeal to as many future buyers as possible, just in case. When in Rome, you build the bathrooms the Romans expect! ;0) DrewEm, the bedrooms are currently 12 x 11 not including the closets and study nooks. I could do reach-ins instead and lose the nooks to gain a couple of extra feet. Our kids are 8 and 18 months, so we do need play space for a good while yet. However, there is a rough patio below their rooms with fans, and we had thought of using that for a ping pong table, soccer goals etc., so they would have that at least. Also, yes, this is a canal lot, so the pool is not the only danger. The whole thing will be fenced, locked and alarmed. The kids rooms are up a half story, so not a full story away. Our youngest will be in the room closet to the stair tower so really just a few steps away from the master...not far at all. Funny you should all mention boomerang space -- I want it desperately! Our kids will likely go off island for university if not high school, so I want (need!) to encourage them to come home often, with friends, girlfriends, families later on...whatever. That is another big worry for me with these bedrooms. Maybe I could build in window beds or bunks in the hall like you see in Florida vacation homes...??? I am still tinkering with master down. Not very good at drawing, but I could do three slightly bigger bedrooms upstairs, one ensuite and two with a shared hall bath...or two ginormous suites! ;0) Just not sure how to design a master with WIC and bath in that long skinny space with the stair tower entering from the front. Any other feedback welcome! Thanks so much, everyone....See MoreCombining a Small Master Bedroom with an Ajoining Small Bedroom?
Comments (6)I did just what you describe and I'm tickled pink with it. In my case it WAS a load-bearing wall, but that just meant I had to header off the opening. I created about a four-foot archway between the two sections of the (now one)room - making one section the bed area and one the sitting/dressing area. I can't tell you what it costs since I did it myself, but I really don't think it would be that bad, depending on what needs to be done. I had to move a electrical box and add another (to stay up to code) but it was mostly a framing/drywall job. I would say the most important thing is visualizing the feel/scale of the new room as well as new traffic patterns and usage patterns to come up with a good design. In may case I created a couple of new walk-in closets to keep the scale of the resulting room comfortable. I know I've been in several "de-partition" rooms that feel just like that - two rooms with a wall knocked down....See MoreSmall Addition, how small is bedroom too small?
Comments (19)NaviJen, pleased to see you posting with us. Mass. is a whole different style of housing than what I'm used to in Alabama. Like lower ceilings, big basements, storm windows, dormers, angled ceilings upstairs. And I've been surprised at the absence of air conditioning (a necessity built into every home in south Alabama), and the intrusive nature of many heating systems--including radiators, baseboard heaters, boilers and oil tanks! Those things take up a lot of space and money to operate also. As older folks who married almost four years ago (second spouses), my DH has a home up there, and I have one down here. That's why I sometimes do a flip-flop from north to south, you will notice. I've been redoing his house AND mine. Jen, be sure to hang in there with us, a lot of creative ideas come from this group of folks. And Steph, you are so unique, giving your boy his own bedroom!!! I'm thinking you need to get out more? hehehehe Having huge antique furniture can be a drawback in a smaller home. Of course, ONE PIECE could fit, maybe, if it is a featured piece. Something that WORKS FOR ITS KEEP. I do hope you have room for the things you've STORED FOR 14 YEARS?!! At least, put it in place and see if it leaves enough breathing room. After all this time, you may have fantasized it into something it can never be, and you've grown out of it....so to speak. Dreams are hard to give up. If I had a good spot to put it, I'd be looking for a nice armoire...just because I like those. But I realize it won't fit my house or my lifestyle any more....See MoreMaster Bedroom, Bathroom and Closet too small?
Comments (27)When you build with the WOW and 4k square feet, (which sounds like a lot but is not ) . It is NOT when you give starring role /NEARLY five hundred sq ft of it to a great room in front of the entry. Another couple hundred to a "hearth" area ......and what will happen here is nobody will actually gather in the great room, the fire will be the traffic stopper. Then you give each of three bedrooms a "walk in " closet. etc Result? you are left with the master suite that seems ( is) out of scale to the wow in the middle. Also small scale kid/guest bedrooms. The only answer to this plan is to lose a chunk of the "covered porch" square off the kitchen corner, bump the master suite to flush with the kitchen exterior wall.Change the window, to two on the covered porch wall and center the bed between. Plan to lose the tub for a decent shower too. Adjust bath and closet , center the entry to those with a right and left side for each. Anything else requires a total overhaul of the plan. That would mean a second story with two beds and baths on a second floor. ..........a completely different house. But this much under roof on one floor, with allocation to functions as is ? Yup......this is what you get Bump the master suite....or build something else.. ( square off that breakfast nook in any scenario.)...See Moreandi956
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