Goodbye 1987 Bedroom - Remodel for Kid's Room
Amy
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Remodel to make small bedroom bigger vs LR
Comments (14)I understand what you're trying to accomplish, but personally I wouldn't want to give up space in my living area. There are other ways you could layout your LR furniture so that you could enjoy the view thru the slider and it would save you moving the fireplace and adding another window. I see you have a large window on the left wall and if this is a TV watching area I would hesitate adding more windows. Keep in mind that moving the fireplace would not be a minor expense and I'm not sure adding a jog in the hallway next to the kitchen would be an improvement. How old is 'kiddo' and how much time does he/she spend in the room? Is it possible to set up the 3rd bedroom as a playroom or study instead of trying to make the BR larger? If the ceiling is the main annoyance I suggest you change the ceiling. Have a contractor check out why it's built as it is and see if you can't change the ceiling line to a vaulted one....See MoreAbout bedrooms accessed through other bedrooms . . .
Comments (9)In the two places I've lived with such an arrangement, some investigation into the original floorplan has revealed that there's been either an addition or some remodeling going on. And people just took the easy way out and slapped a new room on right next to an existing room, without bothering to add a hallway or the like. In my grandparents' house, you had to go through their bedroom to get to the upstairs bathroom, which was, for a time, the only bathroom in the house, other than a toilet in the basement. The house was built in 1865 and the bathroom was originally a closet. It was the only space for a bathroom. That is, until my grandparents had 7 kids and took the smallest bedroom and made it into a bathroom. They also made a pantry off the kitchen into a powder room, to get a downstairs bathroom. My brother and SIL have a child with disabilities. They needed to either buy a wheelchair accessible house or modify the one they owned. They looked at many houses that had been remodeled for handicap access--SIL was appalled, really, at some of the remodeling. She said it was clear they just added a ramp where it was easiest and threw on extra rooms where it was easiest to expand the house, without any consideration of the flow of traffic through the house or how the rooms would open up to each other, or even trying to match the style/ finishes of the original home with what was going on in the addition. She mentioned bedrooms opening directly off the kitchen, or off the master bedroom, or just a section of the family room walled off to create a room. In one house, they punched through the dining room wall and added a bedroom/bath right off the dining room. And another where they enclosed a porch off the kitchen to make the accessible bedroom, so everyone entering the house walked through the accessible room into the kitchen, unless they used the front door. Which no one does in farm country. They ended up hiring an architect to add on a wing to their house--you can't tell where the old house ends and the new wing begins. They did end up with a dining room with no windows, but it has two sets of french doors opening into rooms with tons of windows and sunlight and you really don't notice. They paid extra to get the addition done right, but I think in the long run they have a house that doesn't *look* handicapped accessible and hasn't lost any resale value....See MoreCOUPLES Question, Where do you watch TV most, living room or bedroom?
Comments (34)My husband and I have a TV den upstairs next to our bedroom (designated a small bedroom), and it's great. I absolutely did not want a TV in the living room because it would be in the way, we don't do TV as a social activity, and it would be unsightly and anachronistic in our Victorian AF main floor. We also did not want a TV in the bedroom because we've just never been into that and it's terrible for sleep hygiene. My aunt and uncle had a bedroom TV for ages but ditched it when they moved to their new house. Having the TV den upstairs near our bedroom has been great - you can retire to upstairs and watch TV/play video games before bed but not IN bed. And we'll stick with one TV. There are enough old coax cables on our house to put a TV in every room (previous owner was obsessed with TV, I guess?) but I couldn't imagine. I don't even like TV that much....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 MoreAmy
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