Is A 10x10 Bedroom Too Small
We are in the process of building a house. After many tweaks and reiterations of the plans, they are now final and the smallest bedroom came out to be 12x10 ft. This will be the youngest child's room - she's currently a baby but obviously won't stay a baby forever. All the other bedrooms are larger. There was a way to make that room larger by about 2 to 3 ft, but it would have entailed some rejigging of the layout that would have been too involved for the benefit. We agreed not to do it. Now I'm having a bit of a remorse about it, although probably without much merit. The builder says that it won't feel cramped with a 9 ft ceiling that is planned.
Can someone please reassure me that a bedroom that's 12x10 ft is perfectly normal and not too cramped? I know I'm being neurotic but please humor me.
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Fine but very small. We have a tiny house with rooms that size. I would like them bigger. When kids are younger, its fine but hard to have a desk, bed (especially full sized), bookshelf and dresser in it.
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I think it's fine for a kid bedroom. My son's room is 11x11 and totally fine. He has a twin trundle bed, nightstand, double dresser, bookcase, and room to play on the floor (which is where you'd pull out the trundle for a sleepover). Totally fine.
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Anonymous wrote:Fine but very small. We have a tiny house with rooms that size. I would like them bigger. When kids are younger, its fine but hard to have a desk, bed (especially full sized), bookshelf and dresser in it.
+1
We have a small, older house and that's the size of DS room. It was fine with a toddler bed and a dresser and chair. It's a tight squeeze once we added another dresser and a bookcase. I'm anticipating a loft bed when he gets older so we can put a desk underneath.
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It is fine for a smallest bedroom and as long as not all the secondary bedrooms are that size. Also depends on the closet/door/window layout so you have enough space to put furniture.
I think it is fine for a kid to have a twin bed as long as they live at home and that goes a long way in making the room usable.
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My son (age 15) has an even smaller room-10x10.
He has a bed with drawers underneath so he doesn't need a dresser and a desk. It's a small room but most of the time he's so busy with school, sports, etc. he's not really in there that much anyway.
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Anonymous wrote:It is fine for a smallest bedroom and as long as not all the secondary bedrooms are that size. Also depends on the closet/door/window layout so you have enough space to put furniture.
I think it is fine for a kid to have a twin bed as long as they live at home and that goes a long way in making the room usable.
"Fine"? I had a twin bed until I was 30.
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It's fine for kids with a single or twin bed. Anything larger takes up too much space. They are also fine for a home office. I had one house that had 10X11 spare bedrooms. They really were too small to use as proper guest rooms.
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Our bedroom is 10x11 and way too small. We can't even have a dresser.
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That is the size of the smallest bedroom in our three bedroom townhome. I do wish it were a bit bigger, especially since we don't have that many other areas for my kids to play in. If I were building a home with other dedicated family room/play space areas I don't think I'd find that bedroom size a problem.
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Our smallest bedroom is 12 x 10.5 and its small but we have 6 bedrooms so we use it for laundry.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is fine for a smallest bedroom and as long as not all the secondary bedrooms are that size. Also depends on the closet/door/window layout so you have enough space to put furniture.
I think it is fine for a kid to have a twin bed as long as they live at home and that goes a long way in making the room usable.
"Fine"? I had a twin bed until I was 30.
How tall are you?
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is fine for a smallest bedroom and as long as not all the secondary bedrooms are that size. Also depends on the closet/door/window layout so you have enough space to put furniture.
I think it is fine for a kid to have a twin bed as long as they live at home and that goes a long way in making the room usable.
"Fine"? I had a twin bed until I was 30.
PP you quoted. I'm not sure what you're taking issue with here. I used the word Fine, but feel free to sub in the word normal or whatever will make you feel better. We're on the same page here...
As far as height, obviously if you have a particularly tall child, then you need to look at either a bigger bed or a Twin XL.
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It depends. My son is in that size room. It will be fine until HS. He is about 6 ft tall in 8th grade.
If he was going to be small, like under 6ft, it would be fine.
I think he will need a bigger bed soon. When his brother goes to college we will move him to the bigger room.
We fit 2 dressers but no room for a desk.
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It's small but fine. But it's kind of unfair if your older kids have bigger rooms. Maybe they could share rooms and use the small one just for their beds and the larger one for their playroom and desks.
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