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Playroom/Bonus Room Size

7 years ago

If you have added a play/bonus/all purpose room to your new build, what size is it?

I have 3 bedrooms upstairs and a space left to create a bonus room over the kitchen, but the size of the room would be 13'6" x 22'6". Seems massive, but after a TV, sofa, bean bag chairs, drawing table, etc I am thinking they fill up fast? Never had anything like this before!

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chispa

7 years ago

The best bonus room we had was over a large 3-car garage, so maybe 26' x 35'. The kids were young then and it was great floor space for a bunch of kids to play with Lego, Thomas, pop-up tents, etc.

Our current bonus room is 15'8" x 19' and it has worked ok for tweens/teens. One wall has built-ins with desks and storage. It was a bit crowded when we were still in the "dump all the Lego's on the floor and build a city" stage.

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gthigpen
7 years ago
Our bonus room will be ~ 17'8" x 17'8" and will have a 5'8" x 9'8" nook attached to it. Part of the 18'x18' will be eaten up by the top of the stairs, so it's usable space is smaller. It will be a smaller bonus room than what we have now (I can't remember exactly what we have, but I'd guess its about 22' x 16', all usable. We've liked the size of our bonus room as it's taken up with a large sectional couch, big screen TV/Entertainment center and all the toys my kids have used.

In our future house, most of the toys will be gone (kids are older and have outgrown them), so it's just going to be couch, TV/video games. The nook might house a desk for homework/school projects.

I like a big bonus room. Gives you plenty of options....TV, pool table, ping pong table, crafts, toys, bar, couches, etc....
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Brian Garber
7 years ago
Depending on what age/how many children you have, I would say that is certainly not too big. Once you stick seating in there and if your kids are young enough that they have toys, they will take up some wall/shelving space as well. I prefer a rectangular room like that so you can use one area for a seating/tv space and the rest can be for toys or just open play space.
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beachgirl315
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Meaning - your space will not be too big :)
jkliveng
Original Author
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thank you all for the feedback!

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