And bigger/more expensive houses generally come with an area to park a car and an area to chill in the summer.
What's the point in spare bedrooms?
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And bigger/more expensive houses generally come with an area to park a car and an area to chill in the summer.
Currently have a 4 bedroom house for the two of us.
One of the "bedrooms" is downstairs and is my office/man cave.
One is of stupid dimensions so has the overflow wardrobe and her desk/office space.
One is a spare bedroom, with a decent king size bed for guests. We have someone stay over on average once every 2 months.
One is obviously our master bedroom.
If the master had ample space, then we could do with 3 bedrooms.
One of the "bedrooms" is downstairs and is my office/man cave.
One is of stupid dimensions so has the overflow wardrobe and her desk/office space.
One is a spare bedroom, with a decent king size bed for guests. We have someone stay over on average once every 2 months.
One is obviously our master bedroom.
If the master had ample space, then we could do with 3 bedrooms.
its a good excuse to charge bedroom tax
stupid ****ing government
unless your too posh to be a council house resident
you've got a very low barrier for being 'posh' there
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its a good excuse to charge bedroom tax
stupid ****ing government
There isn't a bedroom tax. You are free to have as many bedrooms in your house as you like.
well that is fairly reasonable in theory, why should we be paying for more bedrooms than you actually need?
the tax payer...
well perhaps not now that we've got the 'bedroom tax'
but if the 'bedroom tax' affects you then we're talking about the taxpayer not wanting to fund your extra bedrooms
how is it a 'scam'
do you think we should be paying for people to live somewhere with an extra bedroom?
doesn't work like that for private sector housing benefit claimants, why should social sector claimants carry on occupying accommodation with more bedrooms than they need?
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4 bedroom house is more valuable than 3. Some rooms are so small theres barely room to squeeze a single bed and from a practical point of view it'd make more sense to knock 2 into 1 but 4 bedrooms are worth more than 3, on paper or otherwise.
As to why is there a bed in it, well its for guests isn't it? My mother keeps a spare room for me or my sister to visit, can't exactly pitch a tent in the garden there isn't the room.
3 or 4 spare bedrooms is ridiculous but its a house pride thing I guess. Women are like that. What else are you going to use them for? Storing junk in? Thats what the garage is for, heaven forbid anyone should put a car in it! Garages are men's territory anyway so get relegated to the cold unheated place in the house. If it was heated it'd have a spare bed and curtains and men would be banished to the shed!
I don't know why I was obsessed with having a huge house, never again it takes 4 hours to clean the floors and we just have a lot of unused space. I grew up in a tiny house and always dreamed of a big place but unless you need the space its not worth the trouble.