Do you have a room in your house that you hardly ever use?

[cepmom]

we have a living room that we really don't use. the front door opens right into the room and we need to walk through it to get to any other part of the house, so basically it's just a big hallway We have a loveseat and a a couple of chairs in it and I have thought about adding a tv above the fireplace, but I never do. It's a waste of space.

 

[DMickey28]

We have only been in this house for two weeks so I don't think counts. We have a 'formal living room' but right now it's a playroom. We are planning on getting furniture for it in the next 6 months or so (read: when we can afford it) and use it as a living room/usable family room. We have a family room right now that has the TV in it. We have a formal dinning room but don't use it, we have the table in it but currently are using the chairs as step stools in other parts of the house! We need a sideboard or something else for it because it's too big for JUST the table.

 

[emdav]

Dh caulked the bathtub a couple weeks ago. When ds wanted to take a bath, I took him to the basement bathroom. He was so surprised we had a bathtub in the basement. Does that tell you anything?

 

[HOGFAN]

Formal family room. will never build a house with one again or will convert to an office space.

 

[ashleybea]

We have two hardly used rooms. We have a piano room, and because I am the only one who can play the piano in my house, I am the only one who uses it.
We also have a formal dining room that is only used on Thanksgiving and Christmas

 

[Micca]

It's just DW & I but we have an upstairs that consists of a guest room & guest bath. It's used maybe 6-10 days a year. The cat gets to keep her box in the bath, and DW gets the closet for her stuff.

 

[golfgal]

We use all the rooms in our house. We have a formal living room that gets used all the time-it is a great place to lay on the couch and read a book or take a nap away from the rest of the house-tv's, etc. We also use that when we have friends over. We have a formal dining room that gets used, not all that much but pretty much any time we have people over. We have a tv room that we use the most (besides the kitchen). The kids use the family room in the basement all the time, I rarely go down there. Heck, even the furnace room gets "used" as that is where we have the marks on the walls for how tall the kids are . Part of what we bought this house was the great layout.

 

[MomofKatie]

We have an extra bedroom that we hardly ever use -- it's more of a guest room/den and we hardly ever have overnight guests, so ... it kinda gets forgotten!

Same here. Our house isn't too large (1850 sq ft), but there are just the 3 of us in it. So, the 3rd bedroom doesn't see much action. We don't have a formal living room, per se- but we use our "bonus room" above the garage as our family room. The downstairs living room does get used, but not as much as the bonus room upstairs. We have a formal dining room, and we eat dinner there about 50% of the time.

 

[luvsJack]

Right now we have a bedroom not being used. Its ds's bedroom and once he and gf get married, I will transform it into something else (not sure what yet, maybe an office/exercise room). I won't do it until he is actually married because the last time I thought he had moved out for good and did something with the room; he moved back!!

We have a family room and a living room--not formal, just a living room, even though our house is really not that big. Both are used pretty much all the time. I wanted both rooms so the kids would have a place to entertain friends without us having to be right on top of them.

What we don't have is a dining room. Our family room and kitchen are all a large open area and the table is kind of just between the two. When we designed and built the house, I specified no dining room; it would just be wasted space. The contractor kept wanting me to make the living room into a dining room, but I like it much better the way it is.

 

[luvflorida]

Yep. It is called the kitchen.

...the 3rd bedroom doesn't see much action.

Sorry, couldn't resist!

 

[lulubelle]

We have about 2200 SF for just the two of us. It's a five bedroom, but when it was built we combined two bedrooms into a great room. The plan was to put a pool table in and make it a game room. Well, it just has all the junk in our lives in there. We call it the "boneyard". Ya never know what you might find in there! And we have 3 full baths - one which has never been used - it's next to the boneyard.