What do you use your bedrooms for?

[Aimeedyan]

Oh gosh that title sounds R rated!!! Not what I mean, promise!

Do you have extra bedrooms in your home? What do you use them for? DH and I are buying our first house, we want a 4 bedroom with the plan of 2 children in our future. 1 bedroom will then be guest, and ours. However, we don't have 2 children yet! =) So what to do with 2 extra rooms?

We've decided we'll have an office that will also have his guitars and PS2. I will have an office at work with my library and such so I won't need space at home.

A year ago I would have said I'd make the other a scrapbooking room but I'm hooked on digital scrapbooking now and don't need the space!

Maybe an extra guest room? Heaven knows we'll need as much as we can get, but that involves buying another mattress ($$$) and bedframe.

So what do you do with your extra bedrooms? Or what did you do with them before children took up residence?

 

[Sparx]

We don't have extras, and we bought this house because it had just enough. I like the idea of the office. You could get a couch and some videogame chairs for the other one, and hook up all your gaming systems, and put the guitars up on the wall, to where they are off thefloor. Then you could put a pc in that room. But I am just a big electronics geek, so I would love a room like that lol.

 

[Barb D]

I have to admit that pre-Kids our extra rooms were junk rooms. I'm much more organized now.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

We have a 4 bedroom house. When we moved in we only had DD, with DS on the way. We set up our room, DD's room, a guest room, then put all the unpacked boxes in what would be the nursery. It gave me a time frame to have them unpacked.

 

[Sandy22]

An exercise room. I have my treadmill in my own bedroom and I hate it there. Wish I had a spare room for it.

 

[crz4mm2]

Our 'spare' bedroom is my walk in closet and the dog's room
It is the all purpose junk room... We store everything in there. My sewing machine, scrapbooking stuff, file cabinet, books, dog's crate, and it truly is my walk in closet

Cathy

 

[Aimeedyan]

I have to admit that pre-Kids our extra rooms were junk rooms. I'm much more organized now.

That may be exactly what that extra ends up being!! =) But I'm trying to start out more organized, LOL.

 

[Honu]

Well they are supposed to be guest rooms, but one is filled with scuba equipment and the other is my closet. I recently threw away the bed in closet room to make more room for racks.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

We are only two people, so we really only need the one bedroom for sleeping.

But we have two extra bedrooms. One has been turned into an office, where our computers are, and where we keep the dogs' kennels and toys. The closet in that room is where my SO keeps his clothing. I keep mine in the bedroom with the bedroom stuff.

The other one is slightly smaller and has been turned into a library/den.

 

[DVCLiz]

I have two upstairs bedrooms and a "bonus room" so the (2) children are upstairs in their own rooms and the bonus room is our "junk" room. I have the master bedroom/bath downstairs, and there is one extra bedroom next to my room. I have made it into a sitting room for me, because I don't have any company that would stay with me.

I have a double-size closet that I've made into my "office." It holds a computer desk, a small file cabinet, and a printer/copier. I can close those doors if I have company and don't want to show the mess! I have a comfy chair and ottoman, a loveseat, two side tables, and several sets of built-ins. On one side of the room, the built-in holds my TV/DVD stuff, with bookshelves on either side. On the other side of the room, I've built in more bookcases. Some of them hold actual books, and some hold my needlework supplies. If I ever get organized enough to do scrapbooking or organizing pictures, that's where I'll store that stuff, too.

It's really nice to have my own little room!!! The chidlren know they can't borrow my stuff without permission and I don't allow them to spread out in there to watch TV (they can go in the den or my bedroom for that.)

This is not a large room - about 12 by 12 max. But it's very nice and a real treat for me!!!!

 

[Annette_VA]

We have a 4 bedroom house & when we bought it, we didn't have kids yet. One bedroom was ours, one the office, one a guest bedroom & one a junk room.

Now, it's one for each child, one for us, and the office. I miss having a guest bedroom!

 

[Disney Doll]

One is a bedroom, one is a combination bedroom(guestroom) and computer room, one is a den.

 

[Poohnatic]

We have a four bedroom. Each boy has their own room, and I'm sitting in the fourth bedroom. It's an office for now. Eventually, it will have a Murphy bed, so that it can be used when we have visitors.

The model of this home we toured with this builder had three bedrooms and a formal living room. We asked if the living room could be converted to a bedroom, which was the other option for the model. DH thought it was unneccessary, but I felt any guests would prefer the door. Glad we did it that way-we decided we didn't want the kids to have adjoining bedrooms, and if we'd done w/o the 4th bedroom, that's how it would have worked out.

Suzanne

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

I have 4 bedrooms, one is mine, each of the DDs has one, and the fourth is my office. I like having a separate office where I can leave all my business out in the open then just close the door instead of having to be ultra organized at every moment.

I would have a guest room but then people would actually EXPECT to stay here... lol

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

oh...

and CONGRATS on buying your first home! It's a wonderful feeling!

 

[Kermit]

We have a 4 bedroom house, which we bought before we had any children. We used the extra rooms for a variety of purposes over the years. For a long time, one of them housed our computers, but then we got wireless, so our computers are all over the house now. We had an extra daybed with trundle when we got married, so there has always been one guest room. Then we bought a cheap full mattress set with frame only (no headboard) so that married people wouldn't have to sleep on twin beds. It's so cheap that it wouldn't have held up to someone sleeping on it all the time, but it was fine for a guest room. One spare room has been and still is my sewing room. I have a regular sewing machine, a serger, and an embroidery machine, so I need lots of space.

I would recommend living in the house for a while to see what you need the space for. Since you plan on having kids in the rooms later, don't start something that you won't be able to give up. If you give yourself time, you'll come across good deals on the furniture you want in the extra rooms, so it won't be so bad when you have to get rid of the stuff later.

 

[Brendita]

We have 3 bedrooms.
1 for DH & me.
1 for DS 11.
1 we use for the PC's & cat.
No! I don't want a guest room.
We have 8 children & 4 grandchildren between us.
As long as they have to sleep on the floor.
They only visit for short stays.
Only have love seats & chairs.

 

[kimisabella]

We use our extra bedroom as a computer room, and here I sit, on the dis!!!!

 

[Meriweather]

4 bedrooms and now only 2 people here.
Our bedroom.
Guest room ( I like guests, as long as they don't stay too long ).
DD just moved out 7 months ago, her room is now also a guest room.
4th is where our computers are and there is a sofa bed in there as well.
We also have a basement that used to have beds in it, but those moved up to DD's bedroom, but my scrap book room is down there.

 

[Beth76]

We have a 4 bedroom house and two kids. So our extra bedroom is my "office". But, it also doubles as a junk room. I clean it out every so often, but it always gets junked again.