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Post by NastyWoman on Jan 6, 2019 13:50:07 GMT -5
I have a 2/2 condo with a small office. The second bedroom has a twin bed and who sleeps where depends of who comes to visit. For instance, when DS2 and his family were here last summer, he and his family had the MBR, except that at night DGS2 slept in the office (napped in the MBR during the day). And I slept in the second bedroom. When DS2 comes for a work visit next week, he'll get the guestroom and I will stay in my own bed. Coming from a family of 9 and growing up in a 3 BR house has made me flexible if nothing else. And the kids with their SO/family take after me
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Post by laterbloomer on Jan 6, 2019 13:50:28 GMT -5
Technically I have a six bedroom house for 4 of us. It's not as big as it sounds, 2000 sq feet of living space, but I think it is really well laid out. Anyway, one of the upstairs bedrooms has the sliding doors to the deck so I would never use it as a bedroom. It's the den with a desk and bookshelves and the pantry closet is in there. I guess I could get rid of the bookshelves and put in a Murphy bed for guests if I wanted to. I've always wanted an excuse to get a Murphy bed. Each of us have our own bedroom and the extra room is currently the room I used for projects.
When I had a room set up as a guest room my Mom would visit for my birthday week every year. She stopped doing that when I no longer had a spare room. In fairness there were also 5 people living here at the time. So in my case I have stay over guests when I have a spare room Not often but I like it when my Mom visits or we can offer out of town friends a place to stay so one of these days I'm going to set up the extra room with a bed again..
We can't really go to a smaller house with the number of people we have now. I'm not sharing my closet space with ISO! Some day when I'm on my own I will go to renting a one bedroom.
None of which helps you with the financial decision part. Sorry.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 6, 2019 13:54:06 GMT -5
Zero guest bedrooms. I've had people crash on the couch downstairs in the living room.
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Post by Malarky on Jan 6, 2019 13:57:14 GMT -5
I have a three bedroom with a little bonus room that can only be accessed through one of the bedrooms. Originally a nursery or a sewing room, maybe? That was DS's room. No such thing as a "master" in a house this old. DH and I have one, DD in another. I intended to turn DS's room into a guest room when he moved out a year and a half ago. But DD has a good friend who lived with us for a while who had moved out and ended up coming back home. The girls used to share DD's room. I had just bought DD a queen so having an extra bed in her room wasn't an option. They had been way too crowded anyway. I thought I'd have a guest room that also held my elliptical that sits unused in the cold, spider infested basement. Instead, friend is in the bonus room with a twin, a bureau and a desk. I thought she was only staying a couple of weeks, it's been more than six months. DD turned her brother's room in to her art room. It started out innocently enough..."Just let me finish this painting in here..." Now it's full of canvasses and paints and stuff. I must say, her actual bedroom stays pretty clean now that her art supplies are elsewhere. I did get my bookshelf set up and there is a futon so I can sit and read if I can stand the clutter. Guests can sleep on the futon or the couch. They're mostly DD's guests anyway.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jan 6, 2019 14:54:18 GMT -5
No guest bedrooms. We have a semi-finished basement and a clik-clak in the section that is the play room. It only has a 6 ft ceiling in that area. My parents have used it about 2 or 3 nights a year. We could convert my craft room or DHs room/storage room in the basement into a bedroom, but these aren't anywhere near bedrooms now. Just semi-finished basement.
My BIL sleeps on the couch when he visits. But that is only once a year or so.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 6, 2019 15:45:08 GMT -5
Technically we have a 4 bedroom house. One of our bedrooms- the door faces the front door and is right off the TV room and kitchen. It isn't a very private space, so we put a desk and a couple if recliners. It is now a second TV room and where my kid's video games are. If there was a long term emergency and we needed another bedroom for someone, we could convert it, but it would make the rest of the house seem small.
If in the future, we want extra guest rooms (as in we do something else with the kid's rooms after they move out, or if we want enough beds for kids and grandkids to visit) I could easily do a Murphy or fold out of some sort.
We purposely did not buy a house big enough to house guests. We just didn't think there were enough people out of town who would want to stay. And the money we have saved over the past 17 years could easily pay for a hotel room for someone to visit. There is actually a bed and breakfast walking distance.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jan 6, 2019 15:55:35 GMT -5
Three bedroom house for two of us (DH owned it before we met); mortgage was paid off over 15 years ago. One room is a walk-in pantry with an extra fridge and storage space for kitchenware; the other is a combined guest bedroom/workout space/office for both of us. Guests are pretty rare, but we make use of both rooms every day. So I don't see it as a waste. When our parents were alive, they stayed with us. They're all gone now, but it is nice to have the extra bed (it's a trundle bed, with a stunning quilted cover my MIL gave us, so it's a good way to remember her.)
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Post by andi9899 on Jan 6, 2019 16:26:20 GMT -5
I had two, but one of the girls bounced back so I'm back down to one.
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Post by busymom on Jan 6, 2019 17:13:07 GMT -5
We have one guest bedroom in our new place. The problem is, since storage is an issue here, it's turned into the room where we put all of the boxes/totes that we don't know what to do with (yet).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2019 17:25:34 GMT -5
Three bedrooms - one is the master, one is DH's tv room and one is my office. Only 1300 sq ft total so no other place for stuff. No spare bedroom, no family, no guests. If anyone ever visits, we have a very nice Hilton close by Only 1-1/2 baths so we really can't offer all the comforts of home.
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Post by sesfw on Jan 6, 2019 17:32:59 GMT -5
We have a 3/2 home with an extra den. We use the master suite as our bedroom, 2nd bedroom is our computer room, the 3rd is my craft/ironing room. This room has a trundle bed in it that is used on the rare occasion we have over night visitors. Then I have to put away all my junk.
Den has bookcases and a model train in it.
We down sized about 11 years ago from 3K with a 3K basement to 2K home. Way too big for 2 people and 1 kitty. Didn't have a lot of guests at that home either.
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Post by bean29 on Jan 6, 2019 18:38:15 GMT -5
We have what was built as a 3 bedroom ranch with an exposed basement (Basement with large windows). We have a "Walkout Staircase" to the backyard, so it has its own enterance. Our basement has a full kitchen, guest bedroom, full bar and family room. We kind of designed it as a mother in law apartment. We pulled permits for the basement, so the city counts the guest bedroom as a legal bedroom. It has a window and a hardwiered smoke detector in it and a walk in closet. We have a 5th bedroom that also has a hardwired smoke detector and a window in it, so it could be a legal bedroom too, but we had it set up as an office, so the inspector did not "count it" If he had, our property taxes would probably be even higher than they are.
DD is in college, DS graduated and lives down the street. Both kids still have stuff in their rooms, but they easily count as "guest" bedrooms. I want one of them for an upstairs office. DH said I could have an upstairs office, but I would have to give up my office in the basement. I have too much stored in the office in the basement. He wants to take the TV from the office and give it to his parents. I don't like that idea as I use the TV when I am filing. There is a leather couch in the office, DD used to sleep on it when we first finished the room, but it has only ever been lightly used. The office was the first room that was finished. My DD was "home" last night. She went out with friends, I had no inkling she was "home" until I went to leave for my workout and found her car in the driveway. Checked her room, she was not there, and went downstairs and the door on the guest bedroom was closed - I assumed she was in there, maybe with her BF, so I did not open the door. She actually slept down the street at her friends house.
She said her friend's smoke detectors have been going off in the house for years! I asked her if we should send her Dad over there to fix it, she just shrugged her shoulders. IDK how DD stood it, I would have walked down the street and come home.
I could rent my basement if I wanted too. I have considered listing on AirBnb, but having the full bar down there presents a problem. I would not want any wild parties going on in my basement.
If we sell, I don't think we need anything more than a 3 bedroom house, but the entertaining space is nice. DH wants exactly what he has though, so he would pretty much want to buy what we have now.
Before Christmas DD came home, and her BF had reserve duties in Chicago, so he spent the night - we are 1/2 way between their apartment and Chicago. We had some friends stop in earlier this year to use our shower, but they did not spend the night. We had some friends stay in the basement bedroom once. DS had a friend stay a few times when he lived at home.
We use therefrigerator a lot. When we have parties, the bar is popular, and we usually use the kitchen downstairs and upstairs. BTW, the smoke detector per code for the guest bedroom is too close to the kitchen, so if we use the stove in the basement, the smoke detector goes off. We need to move it. I told DH before Thanksgiving to disconnect the smoke detector, he did not hear me, and the f'in smoke detector when off. Since they are hardwired, if one smoke detector in the house goes off, all of them in the house go off - it is very loud!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2019 19:30:49 GMT -5
Will make this brief- computer ate my last response.
Ground floor of my house has a large MBR and a tiny smaller one, now set up as an office with a twin bed and rarely used. Lower floor is a walk-out basement with a porch overlooking the lake, 2 bedrooms, a living area and a full kitchen. (Elderly parents of previous owners lived there 13 years.)
So- way too much for just me but WONDERFUL When DS and DDIL and the kids visit about 4X/year. When DH and I were looking at houses we wanted room for them to visit and the 3-BR homes felt claustrophobic to us. This is a LCOL area and my mortgage (P&I only) is $700/month. Utilities are better than they were in the McMansion; I think it's better-insulated and I'm conservative about keeping it at reasonable temps. I have a programmable thermostat and shut off the vents in the downstairs rooms when no one is there. The kitchen and MBR windows are WAY off the ground because the house is built into a hill, so I can open the windows in warm weather and not worry about someone climbing in.
I could live quite nicely on just the main floor but it would be unsaleable with only the large MBR and a tiny second BR. Who knows- when I get old and creaky I might want someone to live in downstairs but I'd REALLY have to trust them. Don't know if I could do that.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 6, 2019 20:11:26 GMT -5
Will make this brief- computer ate my last response. Ground floor of my house has a large MBR and a tiny smaller one, now set up as an office with a twin bed and rarely used. Lower floor is a walk-out basement with a porch overlooking the lake, 2 bedrooms, a living area and a full kitchen. (Elderly parents of previous owners lived there 13 years.) So- way too much for just me but WONDERFUL When DS and DDIL and the kids visit about 4X/year. When DH and I were looking at houses we wanted room for them to visit and the 3-BR homes felt claustrophobic to us. This is a LCOL area and my mortgage (P&I only) is $700/month. Utilities are better than they were in the McMansion; I think it's better-insulated and I'm conservative about keeping it at reasonable temps. I have a programmable thermostat and shut off the vents in the downstairs rooms when no one is there. The kitchen and MBR windows are WAY off the ground because the house is built into a hill, so I can open the windows in warm weather and not worry about someone climbing in. I could live quite nicely on just the main floor but it would be unsaleable with only the large MBR and a tiny second BR. Who knows- when I get old and creaky I might want someone to live in downstairs but I'd REALLY have to trust them. Don't know if I could do that. I'm already old and creaky but I would chew off my right arm before letting someone move in with me. But I've also been "alone" so long that I don't want anyone breathing my homes air. I might breath their homes air but that is totally different Geeze, I sound like such a meannie when I post things like this.
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Jan 6, 2019 21:09:22 GMT -5
We have 4 bedrooms in our home. (1) master bedroom; (2) office for me/also used for kitten fostering; (3) office/workout room for my wonderful DH; and (4) a 2nd master bedroom-sized "rec room" that we use for ... umm... feeding the cats? (grin) We have three bathrooms. We don't have a guest bedroom, per se, because we don't want or like guests.
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Post by hoops902 on Jan 6, 2019 22:47:09 GMT -5
1 guest bedroom, in our basement. We probably have it filled 30 days per year. Do we REALLY need it? Not necessarily...though there isn't really much cost to it. It has my wife's old bed and old dresser in it. Neither of our kids are old enough that we'd want them sleeping in the basement, so we wouldn't have any smaller house if we didn't have it. The endpoint is that it is essentially just a bit less space for our personal use than we'd otherwise have.
Obviously many folks are different, but around here most guest bedrooms are essentially storage areas or home offices or something else that if people weren't sleeping in them would still be used. Someone comes to spend the night and people clear out their storage or other items enough to clear off the bed. Having the bed in the room isn't really costing folks any more/less than it would if they didn't have the bed. It's space they need, and they just put it to dual-use when needed.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Jan 6, 2019 23:01:07 GMT -5
Another thread got me thinking about how much they actually cost. How many extra bedrooms do you have? How many guests and how many nights per year are they staying? Could you live without the extra rooms? Do you really enjoy them? Ballpark figure of annual savings if you downsized to a house with less bedrooms? 1 extra bedroom We have overnight guests frequently- once or twice a month No. It’s also DH’s computer and music room Yes I LOVE being able to offer overnight guests their own room with a private bath. Some of them drive a couple of hours to visit us and I like to make it comfortable. They call it tne “GG B&B”
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Post by sheilaincali on Jan 7, 2019 10:02:54 GMT -5
We have a 3 bedroom house so "technically" have one guest bedroom but we don't have a bed in it and it's the Dogs' room. Our leonberger is a giant breed so her kennel is huge, the corgi mix has a smaller kennel. My son isn't coming back to live with us anytime soon. He's a junior in college and will be staying at college over the summer for his internship. He's cool with us turning his room into a guest room.
We've been in this house since July 2017 and haven't had anyone stay with us.
My parents have 4 full guest suites (each with an attached full bathroom)- they have guests a couple of times a month. Half of my siblings live out of town and all of our extended family does.
I HATE imposing on people. We'll stay at my sister in laws from time to time (they live 14 hours away) but I prefer to just book a hotel room.
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Post by swamp on Jan 7, 2019 10:37:49 GMT -5
None.
I wish I had one so I could go hide.
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Post by bookkeeper on Jan 7, 2019 10:38:05 GMT -5
We have a 1977 ranch house with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths upstairs and a third bedroom with a bath in the full view basement. We bought the house specifically because of the number of bedrooms and bathrooms. We have a large immediate family. We are happy to host our family and friends for overnight stays. Guests enjoy the basement rooms, because there is another living room down there and it is very private. I would guess we had someone sleeping over about 20 to 30 nights in a year. This house is also 3 blocks from a large hotel complex. We can host a huge party with that many rooms at our disposal. Our Arizona home has 3 bedrooms/2bathrooms. We often host friends and family. It gets a little tight because the house is on a slab, no basement space to spread out. A developer has put an option on a lot close by to build a hotel. The hotel would be a welcome addition to this area, as right now the closest rooms are 15 miles away. We probably have guests stay over 30 nights during the winter season. I don't mind having people over for the night. For years, we lived off the beaten path and never had anyone passing through. One extra note: I am a horrible motel sleeper. I do much better winding down to sleep in someone's home. Therefore I am happy to return the favor. And I make DH change the sheets when it's his family staying the night.
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Post by nittanycheme on Jan 7, 2019 12:16:16 GMT -5
My DH and I live in a 3/2 home. However, it is pretty small as it was built in 1958 (~1200 sq ft), so none of the bedrooms are that big. We use one as our bedroom, one as a guestroom/extra storage, and one as a office. The one we use as an office is really small, about 8' x 10', the guest room and the "master" bedroom are about the same size, 11' x 12'. The only difference really is the size of the closet; the master is closet is 2x the size of the one in the guest room. My house is a split level, so there really isn't a lot of extra storage -especially out of sight. I have one attic I can put some stuff in, but its accessed through a 1/2 door in the main bathroom, so it needs to be something that fits through the door and that I can lift into the attic. So, a lot of storage of off-season clothes, window A/C units, etc. is in the closets in the guest room and office. We do have guests that stay in that room about 1 a year; we have guests that stay over more often but they tend to sleep on the couch in the basement. I don't think its that much extra to heat, and I don't think that we'd really be able re-sell it effectively if it was 2 bedroom. There are 2 bedroom houses around, but the market is pretty specialized for them as they tend to be small. My house already is much smaller than any new construction houses around my area, so it likely would be considered a "downsized" house for many. I can't imagine our office really being used as a bedroom today - at most you could put a twin bed in. We have one bathroom in with the bedrooms; the second bathroom is in the garage and is used a lot by the guests to my DH's mancave in the basement. I've been pondering putting in a murphy bed in the guest room, maybe make it into a project room. The problem is a lot of my projects I need to do in the garage with tools; they aren't really geared to do in the house. Maybe someday I'll pick up sewing or some other activity I could do in there. Once I get another cat, it'll be their room again anyway.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Jan 7, 2019 12:50:47 GMT -5
We have a 5 bedroom house.
2 are used as regular bedrooms regularly occupied. 1 is used as a guest room. 1 is my spouse's office (it has a closet and a window, so technically it's a bedroom). 1 is my exercise room
Yes, our house is too big. We initially had 4 of the rooms as bedrooms because we wanted spouses's 2 kids and my MIL to be able to come at Xmas, etc. So for a long while they were. But then the kids aged out of coming home for holidays and we've reused one and turned it into my exercise room.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jan 7, 2019 16:01:16 GMT -5
None. I wish I had one so I could go hide. There are drawbacks to living alone. This is NOT one of them
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Post by TheHaitian on Jan 7, 2019 16:56:38 GMT -5
When we were DINKS we always lived in either a 1 bedroom + den or a 2 bedrooms in case guest visited (mostly MIL).
For the first 3 years of homeownership we did have an extra bedroom then DD was born so no extra room. But we do have a finished basement with a bathroom, and inflatable bed ... we have had a few guests used it in the past 2 years we lived here.
Now we are contemplating #2 DW would like a 4th bedroom; but most likely DD will have to accept she has a roommate (the first couple of months the baby will sleep in a crib in our room anyway).
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Post by cktc on Jan 7, 2019 19:45:20 GMT -5
We have a 3 bedroom plus den for the 4 of us. DD still sleeps in our room and we talked about putting her in with her brother eventually, but I think we need to just give up the guest/cat/storage/hobby room. We have guests for a total of probably 2-3 weeks a year. I do like having the option for guests, but don't really want a bigger place. Some of our neighbors moved to bigger houses when their kids were younger and then downsized to move back here. I'd like to avoid that and just downsize some of the clutter now. DS has a bunk so DD could give up her room temporarily, and I'd like to put a sofa bed in the office for guests.
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Post by nidena on Jan 7, 2019 20:00:35 GMT -5
While I have two bedrooms, neither is set up as a guest bedroom. In the 9 years I have lived here, I have had exactly one overnight guest. I'm not setting up a room for a guest. If they don't want the couch, they can stay at a hotel. This is how it's been for me, in regards to frequency of overnight guests. I think I've had five or six in 13 years. I do have a guest room *now* but don't plan to when I move. There's no point. I will probably just buy a really comfy couch for the next place.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jan 7, 2019 20:05:30 GMT -5
I had an air mattress at that time so used that and put in one of the bedrooms.
The two bedrooms now have junk I need to go through and I'm not setting either one up as a bedroom.
I can nap on my couch and it's where I slept after my surgery.
There is a bathroom upstairs and another in the basement.
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Post by Bonny on Jan 8, 2019 11:22:21 GMT -5
One official guest room, three theoretical guest rooms. Two got used this past Christmas when our good friends came up with their children. Yes, it took some adjusting!
At 2500 sq.ft. for two we are way over-housed. We bought this place as a "move-up" house to give us some extra room and because we really liked the view. Our former house was four doors down the road in a slightly older subdivision and was only 1050 sq.ft.
Downsizing in the same area to a home with similar view would not likely result in much of a financial savings. It's the land and not the house that is so valuable. The smaller houses are likely purchased to do close to a "tear down" although they will keep a wall in order to call it a "remodel". Therefore the houses won't be in great shape and will likely need some substantial work. By the time one adds up the transaction costs, the remodeling costs, et cetera it's unlikely there would be substantial financial savings. And our climate is so mild the incremental heating cost savings might be $25/mth. Definitely not worth the hassle.
Downsizing to an easier to maintain single level home does make sense but I'm targeting doing that in about 10 years when dh turns 70.
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Post by happyhoix on Jan 8, 2019 17:02:19 GMT -5
3 bedrooms, one is my room, for me to do my stuff (DH has the den turned into a man cave - we like our own space).
Technically the third room is the guest room, but it contains a family bed, one my great uncles made for my grandmother when she got married. It's a rope bed, and it's not a standard size, it's somewhere between a single and a full sized bed. Too small, really, for anyone but a single person, and unless they're very short, they would have to sleep sideways. Grandma and Papa must have been stumpy. And very thin. Or they liked to spoon. It's easy to dissuade guests, having a runty sized bed. I think the last person to sleep in it was DS, about 3 years ago.
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Post by chapeau on Jan 8, 2019 18:04:43 GMT -5
Three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, plus a shower in the basement. Since we still have the crib as the only bed in our currently unoccupied bedroom, guests do not invite themselves.
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