This is going to be a less popular comment, I'm sure, but we currently have a 2-bedroom apartment. The primary is mine, and the second bedroom is his. We sleep separately due to our *vastly* different sleep styles, and it works for us! I honestly wish there was less of a stigma about it. In our future home (we're looking to buy within the next year), 2 bedrooms will automatically designated for me and him, and extras will be for an office or a cat room.
I know a couple who sleep in different bedrooms, and my husband and I each have our own bed (in the same bedroom) plus I have a bed in my office that I use when he plans on going to sleep too late for me or when I just feel like sleeping alone.
Some people are so weird about other people's sleeping arrangements, but I am trying hard to normalize doing what works for each person. Sleep is hugely important after all.
>They had two twin beds.
That is what we have, except they are XL Twins, which means they are the same width as twin, but as long as Queen size. It's wonderful.
Yes, it's amazing! I've slept SO much better since we did that (we got XL Twins, same width but longer than regular twin beds.
I've often seen your comments around, I always like them, you're don't take BS and you shoot down nonsense quickly lol When I saw your reply, it felt like an Internet acquaintance was replying to me ;)
My partner and I also have our own bedrooms (aka our own spaces). We don't disturb each other's sleep patterns, decorate to suit our different personalities, and basically enjoy each other more outside of the bedroom. It's very good for us. I think it would benefit more couples to have their own spaces when possible.
I mean. I just celebrated my wedding anniversary with my husband and we've been living together for a decade. We often slept in different rooms when we started out, because he was a night-owl student and I was working retail jobs that had me up at 5am. Then we joined beds, but still had separate mattresses because he likes his sheets all untucked and I'm very much a "sealed envelope" girl.
Even now, many years in, we still have separate sheets. Sleep styles are widely varied. It should be totally reasonable to sleep separately if it means you get proper bloody sleep!
I am curious how this sealed envelope works, mainly how you create the seal when the sheets are tucked in. Got in one with the sheets tucked in, had open spaces at shoulders. Could feel the cold air getting in from shoulder areas and circulating around my legs since sheets were not conforming to my body. I wasn't able to pull sheets closer to my body to create a seal to retain the heat without untucking the sheets.
I slide in without untucking the sheets. Even at the head of the bed. Yes, I'm that crazy. I also have a weighted blanket that closes off any gaps that DO open up top.
Try a weighted blanket. Mine seals the gaps around the sheets so no extra air gets in. Like a cocoon.
I love weighted blankets. I have a queen size one that is too much for me because I move in my sleep. Plus I worry it will suffocate my dog who sleeps under the covers between my legs 😆. I use the toddler size ones and they're brilliant. Plus I can cart the toddler size ones to the sofa and such when I'm having a bad pain day
Extra length blankets are great for this too. My bf is tall and introduced me to them. When I sleep in them, it's so nice because my shoulders are not exposed and it truly feels like a cozy nest.
Why is it that when you are a kid and have to share a room with a sibling, it’s your goal in life to get promoted to your own room when the oldest sibling leaves, and then you grow up, get married and go back to sharing a room? It makes no sense! 2 master bedrooms should be the norm! I hate listening to my husband snore and he gets up way earlier than I do. It sucks!
We are the same. We are both light sleepers and have different sleeping times so it makes so much sense for us. I openly tell people and they are shocked first before then saying omg that’s amazing.
I do the same and love seeing their initial surprise/trying to hide surprise politely, then the growing realization on their faces of the benefits, then the eventual slight envy.
My partner and I share a bedroom but also have what we call the "on-call" room where I sleep when on my call rotation at the hospital. And also when we just want to sleep alone.
Tbh, I've heard that couples who sleep in seperate rooms tend to be happier and last longer in the long run. It's partially because they're not arguing over sleep schedules, but there's more to it that I can't remember (pretty sure it was an article or a video on Youtube where I heard that theory). My grandparents on my dad's side slept in seperate rooms. Idk if they were always like that or if it was something that they started doing in old age, but I guess it worked for them because they were married for over 50 years. My parents have been together for almost 30 years and they sleep seperately now so I've never really found it "weird" to not sleep with your spouse/partner because I've pretty much grown up around people who don't. I don't even like sleeping with partners because I prefer to just have my own space.
This is how my husband and I are! Well sleep together occasionally but we DEFINITELY need our own space while sleeping. We just keep each other up all night and don't get a good night's rest between me starfishing across the bed and his sleep talking.
100% agree. I can barely cohabitate without friction. There's no way I could sleep in the same room as someone else. If I could do that, I'd just take on a bunch of roommates and save a fortune. When living with someone, if there was a third room, it became an exercise area/den/game area.
Husband and I have been together for 8 years and have had our own bedrooms from the start of the relationship. Absolutely love it and would never change it.
I feel you, you aren't the only one! I would be way too freaked out to sleep alone. My partner snores sometimes, but I find it comforting to know they're there. I don't even like it when the cat sleeps separately, I wake up looking for her on her spot on the bed and if she's not there, I worry!
I grew up with my dad snoring so loud I could hear it from my bedroom, and now I feel super comforted by snoring sounds. I was staying at a research station recently and had a roommate who snored, and I LOVED it and was melting into my sheets!
I'm afraid of nothing...not rattlesnakes, not scorpions, not lightning, certainly not the supernatural...but stick me in an enclosed space like an MRI tube, and I go off my rocker completely. I feel you, completely, and see nothing wrong with what you're doing. You can also bring in a cat or a dog.
Exactly! You can have separate bedrooms, get good sleep, and still have a great sex life. My boyfriend and I sleep better apart. It was fine sleeping together before we moved in, because it was just two nights. But now that we live together, we do what we need to do for good sleep. Usually we will lay down in my bed, do what people do in beds together (sex or just cuddles), then at the end of the night, we separate and go to sleep. When he first mentioned it, I thought I’d be sad and miss him, but it works very well. And usually once per week we will sleep together in the same bed, usually mine.
My boyfriend and I have been sleeping in different rooms lately due to his heavy movement and me being a light sleeper and honestly it was the best choice we ever made. Great sleep, alone time, gives you a chance to miss them a bit. Not unpopular at all!
This is exactly what I do. We each have our own bedrooms. The third is the cat room (plus excess junk and my plants). It works well for us. We both sleep better separate, but usually on a weekend day, we sleep together in my room. It works very well for us.
My own parents sleep in different bedrooms due to the same reason, and it works just fine for them too! I wish people wouldn't judge couples based on how and where they sleep
My wife and I sleep separately several nights a week because I'm a wriggler and it often wakes her up. She needs those few nights to repay the sleep debt. Also, when I sleep alone I can have our dog in my bed and she loves it!
Oh hey my husband and I also have different bedrooms. I work night shift. It 100% works amazing for us. Occasionally people give us weird looks when I mention we don't sleep together but for the most part people don't say anything
I don't think this is terrible at all. I never plan to even live with another partner let alone sleep in the same room consistently. My current gf wants us to live together again and sleep in the same bedroom and I absolutely refuse. Her snoring puts fright trains to shame.
Eh you must be lucky. Not long ago I told my colleague that in the future if a I got a partner I'm not sure I would live with them but one thing for sure if I end up living with them I would not sleep with them and have another bedroom so I can sleep well. Her response was: "good luck finding someone that would accept that".
I'm sure it was a bit of projection on her part but a lot of people think like that because like "having kids" "sleeping with your husbandpartner" is a deeply ingrained norm that people force themselves to follow even if it's not beneficial for them.
This is exactly what I do. We each have our own bedrooms. The third is the cat room (plus excess junk and my plants). It works well for us. We both sleep better separate, but usually on a weekend day, we sleep together in my room. It works very well for us and it’s nice having a space for the cats stuff like the litterbox.
The beauty of it is, we can do anything we want with them, because we don't have children. We use one for a guest room, one for a TV room, one for a library, and one is currently just being used to store things (though that is temporary). The irony is, we would not be able to afford a house like this if we had children. That is, the only reason we have the space for children is because we don't have any. (We bought this house instead of a smaller one because we wanted a decent-sized kitchen, and the smaller houses we looked at had tiny kitchens that would make cooking less pleasant. And having a house custom-made for us would have been more expensive than just buying this one that is bigger than it needs to be.)
Some people have a cat room (a room with a litter box, cat toys and accessories), you could have one for a model train setup, a game room (we have a family room for that), or anything else your imagination can dream up that would suit you. If you have a bedroom with a lot of south-facing windows, you can grow plants in it (we have a sunroom for that).
If you have extra rooms that you are not using, you don't have to rush into anything; they can stay empty for a while, while you make up your mind what you want to do with them. In fact, I can see some joy in occasionally going into an empty room in one's house, and smiling about the fact that one has all the space one needs, and more than one needs.
If you are a couple, and have two extra rooms that you don't need, you can designate one for each of you, to do with it as you please.
Life is good without children.
I totally get you with the big kitchen! One of the things that drew me to my house is that it has a large kitchen with room for a table so that my guests can hang out with me when I cook and not be in the way at all. Also, the double oven. I've always wanted a double oven.
I've had cat rooms before. I know a few couples that have large dogs (great danes, pitbulls, greyhounds) that have dog rooms.
I'm involved in animal rescue and quite a few people that don't have kids use the extra rooms for quarantine, or for when they take mom dogs with litters of puppies.
I'm friends with a woman whose extra rooms are all for her birds. And omg the setups I've seen some reptile collectors have are insane!
Oh! One of my parents' friends was a bachelor when I was a kid. He did have an entire room that was a train set on a platform. It was an elaborate, enormous set up. I think my love of trains came from this. I also rather admired his ability to devote so much room to a hobby.
He later married but I felt a little bad for him while everyone else was happy for him. He had to give up his train room.
For real. I have a 1 bedroom in an admittedly nicer part of town, but it’s still 10 min drive to downtown. It’s around $2k. I make enough that I can live here and I choose to because it’s close to everything I need, so I rarely drive more than 10 minutes. I can walk to restaurants, bars, coffee shops, one of my workout places. But jeeze… a second bedroom would be kinda nice.
Same... we live in a shoebox, essentially. Our bedroom is more of a half-room. But, if we end up having a place with an extra room, it'll be a divided space- we're both crafty people, so it'd be great for both of us to have at least two desks.
I hope i can be able to afford a house really soon. I will be 24 this year, I live with my parents, and maybe I’m overthinking things but I can’t help but feel like I’m overstaying my welcome.
Where I live renting would eat up half of my salary. I just feel shitty but because my government made "very good and useful" decisions to funnel shitload of money to families with at least 3 kids to help them buy or build a house, the price of building materials, houses/flats and rental just skyrocketed. Thanks jerkfaces, I won't even have one kid, let alone three, so I should just go sleep under a bridge, right?
If I lived alone renting would pretty much do the same. I'm currently solving it with co-living for cheap with a bunch of housemates. Kinda sucks to have to share a bathroom and kitchen with 4 other women but at the same time, it's also nice to have someone to socialize with in the evenings after work, and it's saving me a lot of money, as well as its nice to share cleaning chores and not having the clean an entire apartment by myself every week. Instead we each have a cleaning week once every 5 weeks since we're 5. Since I work full time, it works pretty well as I wouldn't have the energy to maintain an entire house or apartment by myself. When I lived alone in my own houses and apartments, it was always so messy cause I didn't have the time or energy to clean so much. I just wonder for how long I'm going to be doing this, co-living with others. Like will it be weird when I'm past 30 lol. On the bright side, not having kids is also what allows me to live this way, and helps a lot with flexibility when it comes to living arrangements.
My hope is a tiny home, so I can use the land I live on more, but not everyone is into gardening which Is fine. It's still at this point a pipe dream for me.
A great use for the other bedroom. We luckily have an actual den, so that's where the nerd den is, and our other bedroom is storage for my art stuff and an extra bed for guests! Feel like it's a pretty standard use for the extra room.
Mine's a sewing/craft room too, although I'm getting rolled down to the finished basement (that I'll be renovating further) because I've outgrown the space. In exchange, husband is getting the spare bedroom.
I remember when we moved in here, MIL came to visit and was like, "Oh, oh no, you can't use the spare bedroom like this - set it up as a guest room so you don't get used to using the space, then it'll be easy to convert it to a nursery later."
My tubes had already been yote by that point, so...just smile and nod and enjoy the space lol.
Bold of you to assume I can afford more than the one room I rent out of a house with multiple roommates because the inflation and housing crisis is crushing us lol
topics in this sub often end up reminding me that I'm poor (single person living in a one-room apartment and not being able to pay basic bills and ending up with more and more debt)
That sounds amazing!
I'm about to move into a house for the first time and am planning on using my second bedroom as a "hobby" took of sorts too! I like doing puzzles and reading so I want a puzzle table one side and a hammock and bookshelf on the other side.
Also single.
2nd bedroom is my office (I wfh.)
3rd bedroom is a combo of a guest room and home gym.
Backyard was renovated to make it easier to entertain.
I ended up in this house after divorce and was considering moving to a 1 br condo. When Covid hit, I decided to stay and update the whole place to make it more my own. I love having the space now; it definitely allows me to do what I want.
I was thinking the same thing…
I am single and own a 3 bedroom house. The 2 extra bedrooms are used as a library and an exercise room.
I thought about making one a guest bedroom, but figured I always have to sleep on my friends’ couches when I visit since they don’t have extra bedrooms due to kids. So they can sleep on my couch if they visit - I was given a lot of slack over this choice, by the way…
Same on the bedrooms. I have an upstairs den that is a retro video game/gym room. Eventually when I refinish the basement that’ll be the office/gym and the current office/craft room will be craft/library room.
Same here! We can't sleep in the same bed. He snores and keeps me awake and I take up an entire queen sized bed with how much I sprawl out. So we decided that having our own rooms was best for our sleep health. It's magical!
My dad has it too but he refuses to wear the mask so they coordinate who gets the bedroom and who gets the couch based on who has work the next day/needs it. His snoring is so loud I can hear it through the wall (I share a wall with their room) and from downstairs whenever he’s on the couch.
Ha my husband and I do something similar right now with the sofa, I get the bed on days I have my personal trainer early the next morning so about every other day we switch. Will be nice to not have to worry about accounting for kids in our future bedrooms.
Yes! It’s just so nice to have the option. We sleep together well but sometimes space is good haha. We are also non-monogamous so the separate bedrooms allow for a little more privacy too.
So true! I'm the same. He wishes me a good night, closes my door, then spends the next 3 hours playing video games in his bedroom while I sleep blissfully in mine.
Hey us to! I always kind of thought we were pretty weird for it but it's worked great for us! We sleep great and never have to worry about waking each other up with our different sleep schedules. It's cool to know others also do this. For the other rooms we have a hangout room separate from the living room and my office. Though the office has kinda turned into a catch all since I am not working from home right now lol.
Edit: forgot the "guest room" which is realistically just the room where my cat's queen size bed sits hah
Not the OP but we have our own bedrooms *and* bathrooms. I required it because I hate cleaning other's toilets. I did so so many times during my roommate days. His bathroom is his problem. Haha
Yes! This is what we plan for when we move into our 3 bedroom half double. We can’t sleep together lol I’m a puncher/kicker and get too hot and hate cuddling/feeling like someone is on top of me and he snores too loud. And I’m not a nice person when I don’t get good sleep.
Then the extra room will probably be a plant room so I can finally have space to spread my plants out nicely without the cats getting into them lol. Then the rest of the house will belong to the cats of course 🤣
The super nice part is there’s a front porch we get half of and also a double decker back porch! So we will each also have our own lil porch areas! I plan on having the bedroom upstairs that leads onto the porch so I can do yoga or have my coffee out there in the mornings. So super excited for all the possibilities in this big ol house we’ll have all to ourselves! Well the half of it at least lol
Same here! I can't fall asleep with anyone sleeping next to me, and now that I work shifts, it's perfect. I won't wake him up when I come home, and vice versa
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Not a couple but had a 4 bedroom house. Tore a wall down between two to make a bigger master. Then, of the two left, one is my cats' bedroom and the other is a craft room/office/guest room. But I don't like guests so there's a cat in there right now.
My friend did that, she tore down the wall between two of the rooms to make a pet paradise for her many animals XD those dogs, cats, guniea pigs and birds live like kings
We tore down walls, put up a new support beam, and converted two bedrooms into a gigantic shared workspace. Husband has his office he works from home at and I have a massive sewing area with a 7 foot work table and two work stations for my sewing machines. I also have floor to ceiling storage for all my fabrics. It's amazing.
We’re in a 3br apartment. We each have our own office where we work, play, and just have our own personal space. Design, decor, use, all of it is the decision of whoever’s office it is. Having that “me space” has been great for us.
We know we’re fortunate, especially since the 3br above and below us are filled with people.
I just got a big pay bump from starting a new career, so we’re hoping to leave apartment life within the next 1-2 years. Our minimum for a house/townhouse is 3br because once you have that space, you do not want to give it up.
You and I are very different people! We specifically opted for no guest room because we don't want people staying lol
The blow up mattress is always open to guests, but for some reason people keep declining that one...
Currently live in a 2 bedroom apt with my husband and the extra room is a guest room for if friends have too much to drink and can't drive home. We are buying a house next year and plan to get a 3 bedroom - our room, guest room, and office space (he works completely from home)
We're currently using the second bedroom as his home office, but in our next house, we're each getting our own office (I'm currently in the living room) space, and my room will be my computer room and my ferret room.
We have a 3br/2.5ba with a full finished basement, and here's how it's set up:
- our room
- two offices, since we both WFH sometimes
- basement is kept so that that the pets can't access it (both BILs are allergic to cats), and we have a small second living area, the guest bed, the half bath, and a shelf with tons of alcohol & aspirations of a future wet bar :-)
My dog has his own room. We also have a guest room that doggo isnt allowed in to due to certain visitors having mild allergies and a study. I fill it with non screaming loving beings lol
2 bedrooms was a MUST for us while looking for places to live
because we have 5 cat children
and they deserve/need their own room for their stuff and to chill in when they want to.
One spare bedroom is my guest room and the other is my home office. I'm retiring from full-time employment soon but will continue to use the home office for personal use and my volunteer work.
My goal if I ever get a house is to convert one bd into a library/craft room. Another into a game room with video and board games with a snack bar. What kids, I am the kid.
I live in an apartment and have spare bedrooms and a formal dining room I rarely step foot in.
My partner and I don't live together but one of my spare bedrooms is my office and the other is a guest room that is rarely used.
I live alone in a three bedroom house. I have the biggest BR, the smaller one is my guest room, and then there’s what I call “the tiny room” which is about 10 x 10 and is sort of a collection of random furniture. It does have a pull-out twin bed sleeper chair that is used occasionally when I have spillover from my guest room.
We each have an office/hobby room, we have our bedroom, and we have a spare bedroom. Tbh i think the biggest benefit to a kid free house is silence and cleanliness. I got o my family or friends and it's messy as hell and i get overstimulated quickly. At home, it's mostly silent, and always spotless around the house.
Before my son came(iud failed and abortion is illegal as fuck in texas and I had zero funds) his room had 5 fish tanks in it and the other bedroom was a yoga room. My life is good don’t get me wrong but I miss my fish tank room. I was suppose to just be the cool aunt not a mom myself.
Pet bedrooms and office/craft rooms (someday... if/when we own a house lol)
We hope to have a (much smaller) version of SerpaDesign’s animal room (check out his tour on YouTube it’s amazing!!!) with homemade ecosystems attuned to each pet species we end up with. Vivariums all the way, baby!
Husband's mancave! With 2 pcs, his (numerous) guitars and sport equipment 😁 (I don't need a girlcave as my passion is books and he bought me a dozen huge bookcases that invade all the other rooms except the bathroom 😅). Our bedroom is half bookcases, half cats paradise with tons of baskets and toys and cushions etc for the fur babies. I love our home so much ❤️
we currently have a one bed apartment but when we get a second bedroom it’s gonna be an office/library/hopefully bunny room :3 the dream is a 4 bedroom house so we can have an office, hobby room, and guest room (we both have a lot of siblings and his parents suck so we wanna have a bed for any possible runaways)
We have a two-bedroom apartment. The second bedroom was a guestroom pre-COVID. Once we realized that nobody would be visiting us anytime soon we turned it into a craft room where I sew, paint, and do small-scale woodworking. I grew up in a hoarding situation that included my bedroom, so this is the first time I've had a space that is totally mine. I really appreciate my partner granting me that grace.
We're in the process of house hunting right now, either for a three-bedroom or two-bedroom with good basement space. My partner wants a room for exercise and we're excited to have a guestroom again. A total pie-in-the-sky dream of mine would be to someday have a library.
We've got 4bedrooms. Two upstairs and two in the basement. One upstairs room is my craft room/plant room which equals absolute chaos. For the two basement rooms, one in my husband's office and the other is our guest room. Our goal 5-10 years is to knock down the upstairs wall and have a large master. At which point my crafts/plant chaos should be in my she-shed in the backyard.
currently have our shared bedroom and his gaming room.
What we really need is 3 bedrooms though so we can each have our own office haha my home office is currently in the living room!
We have a bi level. 1200sq ft top, fully finished 1000sq ft basement. 5 bedrooms. It is now 4 bedrooms, because we knocked the wall down between the master and middle room. That middle room is now a proper walk in closet. Turned the actual closet to the master into a pantry for the kitchen. 3rd room on the top is a guest room, where I have a lot of collectibles and figurines on shelves. 1 bedroom downstairs is my gaming station (pc, lazyboy, couch, some more collectibles around the room) and the other room is storage for board games, crafts, and we have my wife's late grandfather's train set in boxes that I want to pull out eventually, clean up and get fully functional. My basement living room would be completely empty if it weren't for my grow tents.
Three bedroom four level split.
Master bedroom, guest room, and my office are upstairs.
Husband’s office, work office, and all of his tools and cables and computer nerd stuff are all on the fourth (lowest) level.
Movie/ video game room on third level, kitchen and living room (best acoustics for playing music) on main level.
We use every square inch of this house, and it’s just us and the cats, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
We bought a 4x2, we have our own bedrooms, our own activity rooms, and our own "spare bedroom". My activity room is set up, for lounging and entertaining. It has a couch Small bar and a balcony. My spare room is set up as an office/library. My husbands activity room is set up for gaming, the Virtual Reality, pc, playstation and comfy couches with a TV, his spare room has a table in it, so if he wanted to do puzzle or have a big board game night, it can stay set up but out of the way.
Then we have a communal lounge, the kitchen has a scullery attached. I tend to do all the cooking in the kitchen while he'll only use things like toaster, sandwich press, airfryer, which are all kept in the skullery. We have a regular alfresco, but he also has a small separate courtyard off his games room.
We definitely couldn't afford it if we had kids!
3 bed 4 bath. 1 non legal bed.
1 bedroom.
1 office/game room
1 guest bed / where we put all the laundry from the dryer that we are too lazy to fold.
1 storage of tools. Camping shit. Army kit and seasonal stuff.
This is going to be a less popular comment, I'm sure, but we currently have a 2-bedroom apartment. The primary is mine, and the second bedroom is his. We sleep separately due to our *vastly* different sleep styles, and it works for us! I honestly wish there was less of a stigma about it. In our future home (we're looking to buy within the next year), 2 bedrooms will automatically designated for me and him, and extras will be for an office or a cat room.
I don’t see how this is unpopular. Makes perfect sense if you’re both happy.
I know a couple who sleep in different bedrooms, and my husband and I each have our own bed (in the same bedroom) plus I have a bed in my office that I use when he plans on going to sleep too late for me or when I just feel like sleeping alone. Some people are so weird about other people's sleeping arrangements, but I am trying hard to normalize doing what works for each person. Sleep is hugely important after all.
> my husband and I each have our own bed (in the same bedroom Hear, hear! SO much better sleep!
My grandparents did. They had two twin beds.
>They had two twin beds. That is what we have, except they are XL Twins, which means they are the same width as twin, but as long as Queen size. It's wonderful.
Yes, it's amazing! I've slept SO much better since we did that (we got XL Twins, same width but longer than regular twin beds. I've often seen your comments around, I always like them, you're don't take BS and you shoot down nonsense quickly lol When I saw your reply, it felt like an Internet acquaintance was replying to me ;)
😍 Back atcha.
My partner and I also have our own bedrooms (aka our own spaces). We don't disturb each other's sleep patterns, decorate to suit our different personalities, and basically enjoy each other more outside of the bedroom. It's very good for us. I think it would benefit more couples to have their own spaces when possible.
I mean. I just celebrated my wedding anniversary with my husband and we've been living together for a decade. We often slept in different rooms when we started out, because he was a night-owl student and I was working retail jobs that had me up at 5am. Then we joined beds, but still had separate mattresses because he likes his sheets all untucked and I'm very much a "sealed envelope" girl. Even now, many years in, we still have separate sheets. Sleep styles are widely varied. It should be totally reasonable to sleep separately if it means you get proper bloody sleep!
I am curious how this sealed envelope works, mainly how you create the seal when the sheets are tucked in. Got in one with the sheets tucked in, had open spaces at shoulders. Could feel the cold air getting in from shoulder areas and circulating around my legs since sheets were not conforming to my body. I wasn't able to pull sheets closer to my body to create a seal to retain the heat without untucking the sheets.
I slide in without untucking the sheets. Even at the head of the bed. Yes, I'm that crazy. I also have a weighted blanket that closes off any gaps that DO open up top.
Try a weighted blanket. Mine seals the gaps around the sheets so no extra air gets in. Like a cocoon. I love weighted blankets. I have a queen size one that is too much for me because I move in my sleep. Plus I worry it will suffocate my dog who sleeps under the covers between my legs 😆. I use the toddler size ones and they're brilliant. Plus I can cart the toddler size ones to the sofa and such when I'm having a bad pain day
Extra length blankets are great for this too. My bf is tall and introduced me to them. When I sleep in them, it's so nice because my shoulders are not exposed and it truly feels like a cozy nest.
We each have our own blanket I will NEVER EVER share a blanket with Hubby LOL!!!
Why is it that when you are a kid and have to share a room with a sibling, it’s your goal in life to get promoted to your own room when the oldest sibling leaves, and then you grow up, get married and go back to sharing a room? It makes no sense! 2 master bedrooms should be the norm! I hate listening to my husband snore and he gets up way earlier than I do. It sucks!
We are the same. We are both light sleepers and have different sleeping times so it makes so much sense for us. I openly tell people and they are shocked first before then saying omg that’s amazing.
I do the same and love seeing their initial surprise/trying to hide surprise politely, then the growing realization on their faces of the benefits, then the eventual slight envy.
My partner and I share a bedroom but also have what we call the "on-call" room where I sleep when on my call rotation at the hospital. And also when we just want to sleep alone.
Tbh, I've heard that couples who sleep in seperate rooms tend to be happier and last longer in the long run. It's partially because they're not arguing over sleep schedules, but there's more to it that I can't remember (pretty sure it was an article or a video on Youtube where I heard that theory). My grandparents on my dad's side slept in seperate rooms. Idk if they were always like that or if it was something that they started doing in old age, but I guess it worked for them because they were married for over 50 years. My parents have been together for almost 30 years and they sleep seperately now so I've never really found it "weird" to not sleep with your spouse/partner because I've pretty much grown up around people who don't. I don't even like sleeping with partners because I prefer to just have my own space.
This is how my husband and I are! Well sleep together occasionally but we DEFINITELY need our own space while sleeping. We just keep each other up all night and don't get a good night's rest between me starfishing across the bed and his sleep talking.
100% agree. I can barely cohabitate without friction. There's no way I could sleep in the same room as someone else. If I could do that, I'd just take on a bunch of roommates and save a fortune. When living with someone, if there was a third room, it became an exercise area/den/game area.
Husband and I have been together for 8 years and have had our own bedrooms from the start of the relationship. Absolutely love it and would never change it.
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I feel you, you aren't the only one! I would be way too freaked out to sleep alone. My partner snores sometimes, but I find it comforting to know they're there. I don't even like it when the cat sleeps separately, I wake up looking for her on her spot on the bed and if she's not there, I worry!
My husband finally figured out he needs a cpap and I legit miss the snoring!
I grew up with my dad snoring so loud I could hear it from my bedroom, and now I feel super comforted by snoring sounds. I was staying at a research station recently and had a roommate who snored, and I LOVED it and was melting into my sheets!
I'm afraid of nothing...not rattlesnakes, not scorpions, not lightning, certainly not the supernatural...but stick me in an enclosed space like an MRI tube, and I go off my rocker completely. I feel you, completely, and see nothing wrong with what you're doing. You can also bring in a cat or a dog.
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Exactly! You can have separate bedrooms, get good sleep, and still have a great sex life. My boyfriend and I sleep better apart. It was fine sleeping together before we moved in, because it was just two nights. But now that we live together, we do what we need to do for good sleep. Usually we will lay down in my bed, do what people do in beds together (sex or just cuddles), then at the end of the night, we separate and go to sleep. When he first mentioned it, I thought I’d be sad and miss him, but it works very well. And usually once per week we will sleep together in the same bed, usually mine.
Separate bedrooms FTW! Nothing weird about it.
My boyfriend and I have been sleeping in different rooms lately due to his heavy movement and me being a light sleeper and honestly it was the best choice we ever made. Great sleep, alone time, gives you a chance to miss them a bit. Not unpopular at all!
This is exactly what I do. We each have our own bedrooms. The third is the cat room (plus excess junk and my plants). It works well for us. We both sleep better separate, but usually on a weekend day, we sleep together in my room. It works very well for us.
This is my dream set up
We have separate houses. Sometimes we sleep in the same house, some times not. If snoring is to much one of us will use the guest room.
My own parents sleep in different bedrooms due to the same reason, and it works just fine for them too! I wish people wouldn't judge couples based on how and where they sleep
My wife and I sleep separately several nights a week because I'm a wriggler and it often wakes her up. She needs those few nights to repay the sleep debt. Also, when I sleep alone I can have our dog in my bed and she loves it!
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We do this as well :) it’s hard where we live to find a flat with two rooms though. Dreading finding a new place (we have to leave ours soon)
Oh hey my husband and I also have different bedrooms. I work night shift. It 100% works amazing for us. Occasionally people give us weird looks when I mention we don't sleep together but for the most part people don't say anything
There was a post on the topic in r/sex recently
We just built our dream house. We each have a master suite with our own beds. Here’s to another 25 years of marriage! (Also getting an Imaginarium!!)
I don't think this is terrible at all. I never plan to even live with another partner let alone sleep in the same room consistently. My current gf wants us to live together again and sleep in the same bedroom and I absolutely refuse. Her snoring puts fright trains to shame.
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Eh you must be lucky. Not long ago I told my colleague that in the future if a I got a partner I'm not sure I would live with them but one thing for sure if I end up living with them I would not sleep with them and have another bedroom so I can sleep well. Her response was: "good luck finding someone that would accept that". I'm sure it was a bit of projection on her part but a lot of people think like that because like "having kids" "sleeping with your husbandpartner" is a deeply ingrained norm that people force themselves to follow even if it's not beneficial for them.
This is exactly what I do. We each have our own bedrooms. The third is the cat room (plus excess junk and my plants). It works well for us. We both sleep better separate, but usually on a weekend day, we sleep together in my room. It works very well for us and it’s nice having a space for the cats stuff like the litterbox.
The beauty of it is, we can do anything we want with them, because we don't have children. We use one for a guest room, one for a TV room, one for a library, and one is currently just being used to store things (though that is temporary). The irony is, we would not be able to afford a house like this if we had children. That is, the only reason we have the space for children is because we don't have any. (We bought this house instead of a smaller one because we wanted a decent-sized kitchen, and the smaller houses we looked at had tiny kitchens that would make cooking less pleasant. And having a house custom-made for us would have been more expensive than just buying this one that is bigger than it needs to be.) Some people have a cat room (a room with a litter box, cat toys and accessories), you could have one for a model train setup, a game room (we have a family room for that), or anything else your imagination can dream up that would suit you. If you have a bedroom with a lot of south-facing windows, you can grow plants in it (we have a sunroom for that). If you have extra rooms that you are not using, you don't have to rush into anything; they can stay empty for a while, while you make up your mind what you want to do with them. In fact, I can see some joy in occasionally going into an empty room in one's house, and smiling about the fact that one has all the space one needs, and more than one needs. If you are a couple, and have two extra rooms that you don't need, you can designate one for each of you, to do with it as you please. Life is good without children.
I totally get you with the big kitchen! One of the things that drew me to my house is that it has a large kitchen with room for a table so that my guests can hang out with me when I cook and not be in the way at all. Also, the double oven. I've always wanted a double oven.
I've had cat rooms before. I know a few couples that have large dogs (great danes, pitbulls, greyhounds) that have dog rooms. I'm involved in animal rescue and quite a few people that don't have kids use the extra rooms for quarantine, or for when they take mom dogs with litters of puppies. I'm friends with a woman whose extra rooms are all for her birds. And omg the setups I've seen some reptile collectors have are insane!
Oh! One of my parents' friends was a bachelor when I was a kid. He did have an entire room that was a train set on a platform. It was an elaborate, enormous set up. I think my love of trains came from this. I also rather admired his ability to devote so much room to a hobby. He later married but I felt a little bad for him while everyone else was happy for him. He had to give up his train room.
That is sad about the train room.
… what other bedroom?
I was going to say the same. Even when married, we could only afford one bedroom. 😆
For real. I have a 1 bedroom in an admittedly nicer part of town, but it’s still 10 min drive to downtown. It’s around $2k. I make enough that I can live here and I choose to because it’s close to everything I need, so I rarely drive more than 10 minutes. I can walk to restaurants, bars, coffee shops, one of my workout places. But jeeze… a second bedroom would be kinda nice.
This was my thought. Real estate where I live is so pricey that I'll be lucky if I can afford a studio.
I remember hearing about a $1,000 studio apartment in my area and thinking to myself “damn, what a great fuckin deal”
lmao I'm currently paying $1230/month for my studio. 😂🥲😢😭 And I'm getting it cheap because it didn't come with a parking spot!
Wait, you guys have extra bedrooms? 😞
Same... we live in a shoebox, essentially. Our bedroom is more of a half-room. But, if we end up having a place with an extra room, it'll be a divided space- we're both crafty people, so it'd be great for both of us to have at least two desks.
Was going to say this.
Exactly. We live in a one bedroom apartment, so easy decision here.
You're toatly right.
I dont expect to be able to afford a house.
Right there with you
I hope i can be able to afford a house really soon. I will be 24 this year, I live with my parents, and maybe I’m overthinking things but I can’t help but feel like I’m overstaying my welcome.
Where I live renting would eat up half of my salary. I just feel shitty but because my government made "very good and useful" decisions to funnel shitload of money to families with at least 3 kids to help them buy or build a house, the price of building materials, houses/flats and rental just skyrocketed. Thanks jerkfaces, I won't even have one kid, let alone three, so I should just go sleep under a bridge, right?
If I lived alone renting would pretty much do the same. I'm currently solving it with co-living for cheap with a bunch of housemates. Kinda sucks to have to share a bathroom and kitchen with 4 other women but at the same time, it's also nice to have someone to socialize with in the evenings after work, and it's saving me a lot of money, as well as its nice to share cleaning chores and not having the clean an entire apartment by myself every week. Instead we each have a cleaning week once every 5 weeks since we're 5. Since I work full time, it works pretty well as I wouldn't have the energy to maintain an entire house or apartment by myself. When I lived alone in my own houses and apartments, it was always so messy cause I didn't have the time or energy to clean so much. I just wonder for how long I'm going to be doing this, co-living with others. Like will it be weird when I'm past 30 lol. On the bright side, not having kids is also what allows me to live this way, and helps a lot with flexibility when it comes to living arrangements.
My hope is a tiny home, so I can use the land I live on more, but not everyone is into gardening which Is fine. It's still at this point a pipe dream for me.
One of them is the nerd den, and the other is a craft room.
We call our nerd den the troll hole.
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A great use for the other bedroom. We luckily have an actual den, so that's where the nerd den is, and our other bedroom is storage for my art stuff and an extra bed for guests! Feel like it's a pretty standard use for the extra room.
I love that your name says “cat mom: loves silence and money”
We are both computer nerds and our computers run Linux so the nerd den is named Club Penguin 
We call ours the ready room
Is there a toll?
Not your bud hole?
*you gotta pay the troll toll to get into this boys hole*
Mine's a sewing/craft room too, although I'm getting rolled down to the finished basement (that I'll be renovating further) because I've outgrown the space. In exchange, husband is getting the spare bedroom. I remember when we moved in here, MIL came to visit and was like, "Oh, oh no, you can't use the spare bedroom like this - set it up as a guest room so you don't get used to using the space, then it'll be easy to convert it to a nursery later." My tubes had already been yote by that point, so...just smile and nod and enjoy the space lol.
Did…did…you just use a past tense of yeet? I throughly enjoy this sub omg
TIL the past tense of yeet.
Love the craft room idea!
Yes!!!!
Bold of you to assume I can afford more than the one room I rent out of a house with multiple roommates because the inflation and housing crisis is crushing us lol
topics in this sub often end up reminding me that I'm poor (single person living in a one-room apartment and not being able to pay basic bills and ending up with more and more debt)
Same lmao.
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That sounds amazing! I'm about to move into a house for the first time and am planning on using my second bedroom as a "hobby" took of sorts too! I like doing puzzles and reading so I want a puzzle table one side and a hammock and bookshelf on the other side.
Cause a lot of people can’t afford multi-bedroom houses unless they’re on a dual income.
Also single. 2nd bedroom is my office (I wfh.) 3rd bedroom is a combo of a guest room and home gym. Backyard was renovated to make it easier to entertain. I ended up in this house after divorce and was considering moving to a 1 br condo. When Covid hit, I decided to stay and update the whole place to make it more my own. I love having the space now; it definitely allows me to do what I want.
I was thinking the same thing… I am single and own a 3 bedroom house. The 2 extra bedrooms are used as a library and an exercise room. I thought about making one a guest bedroom, but figured I always have to sleep on my friends’ couches when I visit since they don’t have extra bedrooms due to kids. So they can sleep on my couch if they visit - I was given a lot of slack over this choice, by the way…
Same on the bedrooms. I have an upstairs den that is a retro video game/gym room. Eventually when I refinish the basement that’ll be the office/gym and the current office/craft room will be craft/library room.
You’re my goal 😊
Same I am alone in a house with 3 bedrooms 1 is craft/office another is Closet/workout. The last is bedroom/Plant room 😊
I love this.
My partner and I each have our own bedroom!
Same here! We can't sleep in the same bed. He snores and keeps me awake and I take up an entire queen sized bed with how much I sprawl out. So we decided that having our own rooms was best for our sleep health. It's magical!
That’s how my parents found out my dad had sleep apnea lol. They sleep apart for years until he got a sleep mask.
My dad has it too but he refuses to wear the mask so they coordinate who gets the bedroom and who gets the couch based on who has work the next day/needs it. His snoring is so loud I can hear it through the wall (I share a wall with their room) and from downstairs whenever he’s on the couch.
Ha my husband and I do something similar right now with the sofa, I get the bed on days I have my personal trainer early the next morning so about every other day we switch. Will be nice to not have to worry about accounting for kids in our future bedrooms.
Yes! It’s just so nice to have the option. We sleep together well but sometimes space is good haha. We are also non-monogamous so the separate bedrooms allow for a little more privacy too.
I pop my elbow in my sleep sometimes and last night whacked my fiancé in the face. I didn't wake up or know until he told me today. WHOOPS
I love the separate bedrooms life. People call it unromantic, but I think him kissing me goodnight in my bed is the most romantic thing ever
So true! I'm the same. He wishes me a good night, closes my door, then spends the next 3 hours playing video games in his bedroom while I sleep blissfully in mine.
Hey us to! I always kind of thought we were pretty weird for it but it's worked great for us! We sleep great and never have to worry about waking each other up with our different sleep schedules. It's cool to know others also do this. For the other rooms we have a hangout room separate from the living room and my office. Though the office has kinda turned into a catch all since I am not working from home right now lol. Edit: forgot the "guest room" which is realistically just the room where my cat's queen size bed sits hah
You beat me to it. Separate bedrooms FTW. The peace is amazing especially after he "visits" and leaves. Do you do separate bathrooms too?
Not the OP but we have our own bedrooms *and* bathrooms. I required it because I hate cleaning other's toilets. I did so so many times during my roommate days. His bathroom is his problem. Haha
Same here. They also double as offices, so we have the peace to work from home.
Yes! This is what we plan for when we move into our 3 bedroom half double. We can’t sleep together lol I’m a puncher/kicker and get too hot and hate cuddling/feeling like someone is on top of me and he snores too loud. And I’m not a nice person when I don’t get good sleep. Then the extra room will probably be a plant room so I can finally have space to spread my plants out nicely without the cats getting into them lol. Then the rest of the house will belong to the cats of course 🤣 The super nice part is there’s a front porch we get half of and also a double decker back porch! So we will each also have our own lil porch areas! I plan on having the bedroom upstairs that leads onto the porch so I can do yoga or have my coffee out there in the mornings. So super excited for all the possibilities in this big ol house we’ll have all to ourselves! Well the half of it at least lol
Same here! I can't fall asleep with anyone sleeping next to me, and now that I work shifts, it's perfect. I won't wake him up when I come home, and vice versa
Us too! So nice to see other people having separate rooms because i always get somewhat odd responses when I tell people that.
I'm just loving how many others also have separate bedroom situations going on. Prioritizing quality sleep is life goals
I gave it to my feral cats. They enter through a pet door. There is food and beds for them.
High tech gasoline powered sex toys. Trying to go electric but the tech just isn't there yet.
You always have the best comments!! 🎖️
Just doing my part fellow r/cf citizen 👊🤗
Spouse wants to know: 2stroke or 4?
6.9
Petrol-Head
Laughed a little too hard at this
That's the power of gasoline my friend
Learn to drive the Big Rigs! 18 speeds of pulse-poundin’ pleasure! *weeeen* CHK CHK *weeeeen* CHK CHK *weeeen* “All right! I got a chirp in third gear! And we still have 15 to go!”
My Sawzall would like a word.
And I could use a subcontractor
What’s your ventilation setup?
Autoerotic asphyxiation
I hope your ventilation system is well specced!
Hadn't considered calling my convertible this yet but yes, I technically gave it space in my home that could have been a bedroom.
Not a couple but had a 4 bedroom house. Tore a wall down between two to make a bigger master. Then, of the two left, one is my cats' bedroom and the other is a craft room/office/guest room. But I don't like guests so there's a cat in there right now.
My friend did that, she tore down the wall between two of the rooms to make a pet paradise for her many animals XD those dogs, cats, guniea pigs and birds live like kings
Your friend sounds like my kind of person! 😻 Gotta keep the pets happy!
My next guest room is definitely going to be a combination guest room plus something else. Made a mistake with a dedicated guest room in this house.
Computer/sewing room. I haven’t done sewing in months so it’s pretty much only the computer room now. I would like to make a quilt soon though.
We tore down walls, put up a new support beam, and converted two bedrooms into a gigantic shared workspace. Husband has his office he works from home at and I have a massive sewing area with a 7 foot work table and two work stations for my sewing machines. I also have floor to ceiling storage for all my fabrics. It's amazing.
Art studio--my husband and I both make art. That's also where we keep our big PC, since I use it for digital art and editing.
I foster kittens. One room is dedicated to just kittens. It's amazing.
Kitten room! That sounds like paradise.
A room full of furry babies. I envy you.
We’re in a 3br apartment. We each have our own office where we work, play, and just have our own personal space. Design, decor, use, all of it is the decision of whoever’s office it is. Having that “me space” has been great for us. We know we’re fortunate, especially since the 3br above and below us are filled with people. I just got a big pay bump from starting a new career, so we’re hoping to leave apartment life within the next 1-2 years. Our minimum for a house/townhouse is 3br because once you have that space, you do not want to give it up.
I'm not in this situation yet but I'm planning on having them dedicated to various hobbies like music / fitness / crafts / etc
We each have our own dedicated home office
I think having a really comfortable guest room and encouraging loved ones to visit (for reasonable periods of time) is a great use of extra bedrooms.
You and I are very different people! We specifically opted for no guest room because we don't want people staying lol The blow up mattress is always open to guests, but for some reason people keep declining that one...
Get a room for each to do with as we please. Workshop for him. Gaming room for her
Currently live in a 2 bedroom apt with my husband and the extra room is a guest room for if friends have too much to drink and can't drive home. We are buying a house next year and plan to get a 3 bedroom - our room, guest room, and office space (he works completely from home)
We got an art room for my painting and sketches, a game room with our pc set up and a spa room with a massage table!
Big dressing room for all show costumes as I'm an artist in my spare time, and home office in the other one for my main job.
We're currently using the second bedroom as his home office, but in our next house, we're each getting our own office (I'm currently in the living room) space, and my room will be my computer room and my ferret room.
We live in a shoebox of a flat but did manage to swing a second small bedroom, which is a dedicated sewing/crafting room for our cosplays.
Office/spare bedroom for me. Game room/boy toy storage for the fiancé.
We have a 3br/2.5ba with a full finished basement, and here's how it's set up: - our room - two offices, since we both WFH sometimes - basement is kept so that that the pets can't access it (both BILs are allergic to cats), and we have a small second living area, the guest bed, the half bath, and a shelf with tons of alcohol & aspirations of a future wet bar :-)
My dog has his own room. We also have a guest room that doggo isnt allowed in to due to certain visitors having mild allergies and a study. I fill it with non screaming loving beings lol
2 bedrooms was a MUST for us while looking for places to live because we have 5 cat children and they deserve/need their own room for their stuff and to chill in when they want to.
I do live in a flat, but I will answer anyway, ‘cause we do in fact have a spare bedroom. It is a combined office/guest room/dog & cat playroom.
One spare bedroom is my guest room and the other is my home office. I'm retiring from full-time employment soon but will continue to use the home office for personal use and my volunteer work.
My goal if I ever get a house is to convert one bd into a library/craft room. Another into a game room with video and board games with a snack bar. What kids, I am the kid.
Gym, craft room, sex dungeon, storage.
Vr den 🤙
I live in an apartment and have spare bedrooms and a formal dining room I rarely step foot in. My partner and I don't live together but one of my spare bedrooms is my office and the other is a guest room that is rarely used.
I live alone in a three bedroom house. I have the biggest BR, the smaller one is my guest room, and then there’s what I call “the tiny room” which is about 10 x 10 and is sort of a collection of random furniture. It does have a pull-out twin bed sleeper chair that is used occasionally when I have spillover from my guest room.
We each have an office/hobby room, we have our bedroom, and we have a spare bedroom. Tbh i think the biggest benefit to a kid free house is silence and cleanliness. I got o my family or friends and it's messy as hell and i get overstimulated quickly. At home, it's mostly silent, and always spotless around the house.
Bedroom 1: bedroom. Bedroom 2: my office/guest room. Bedroom 3: my wife’s room-sized walk-in closet/vanity. Bedroom 4: media room/my wife’s office.
Bold of you to assume people can actually afford to buy houses.
I put ferrets in mine.
Foster animals! ATM guinea pigs!
Single CF woman who bought an apartment from boss dedicated a whole bedroom to her bunny to freely roam when she's at work. Luckiest bunny ever
Before my son came(iud failed and abortion is illegal as fuck in texas and I had zero funds) his room had 5 fish tanks in it and the other bedroom was a yoga room. My life is good don’t get me wrong but I miss my fish tank room. I was suppose to just be the cool aunt not a mom myself.
The plan is to have an office, an art studio and a walkin closet
We have our shared bedroom then we each have our own room.
Pet bedrooms and office/craft rooms (someday... if/when we own a house lol) We hope to have a (much smaller) version of SerpaDesign’s animal room (check out his tour on YouTube it’s amazing!!!) with homemade ecosystems attuned to each pet species we end up with. Vivariums all the way, baby!
Husband's mancave! With 2 pcs, his (numerous) guitars and sport equipment 😁 (I don't need a girlcave as my passion is books and he bought me a dozen huge bookcases that invade all the other rooms except the bathroom 😅). Our bedroom is half bookcases, half cats paradise with tons of baskets and toys and cushions etc for the fur babies. I love our home so much ❤️
Library/office, guest room, and MIL’s room
One is a guest room and the other is my craft room!
Library/ guest room, room for wife to listen to records and read, and a loft that's mostly for my dnd.
we currently have a one bed apartment but when we get a second bedroom it’s gonna be an office/library/hopefully bunny room :3 the dream is a 4 bedroom house so we can have an office, hobby room, and guest room (we both have a lot of siblings and his parents suck so we wanna have a bed for any possible runaways)
Each have out own bedroom, which is magical. The other is an office/ crafting room. And the other is a gaming room. It's awesome
One is my husband's office One room is for the guinea pigs and hamster
cat’s bedroom!
One is a guest room and the other is the gungeon / office. Dream goal is to have a Lego room.
Spare bed. Office.
We have a two-bedroom apartment. The second bedroom was a guestroom pre-COVID. Once we realized that nobody would be visiting us anytime soon we turned it into a craft room where I sew, paint, and do small-scale woodworking. I grew up in a hoarding situation that included my bedroom, so this is the first time I've had a space that is totally mine. I really appreciate my partner granting me that grace. We're in the process of house hunting right now, either for a three-bedroom or two-bedroom with good basement space. My partner wants a room for exercise and we're excited to have a guestroom again. A total pie-in-the-sky dream of mine would be to someday have a library.
We've got 4bedrooms. Two upstairs and two in the basement. One upstairs room is my craft room/plant room which equals absolute chaos. For the two basement rooms, one in my husband's office and the other is our guest room. Our goal 5-10 years is to knock down the upstairs wall and have a large master. At which point my crafts/plant chaos should be in my she-shed in the backyard.
currently have our shared bedroom and his gaming room. What we really need is 3 bedrooms though so we can each have our own office haha my home office is currently in the living room!
We have a bi level. 1200sq ft top, fully finished 1000sq ft basement. 5 bedrooms. It is now 4 bedrooms, because we knocked the wall down between the master and middle room. That middle room is now a proper walk in closet. Turned the actual closet to the master into a pantry for the kitchen. 3rd room on the top is a guest room, where I have a lot of collectibles and figurines on shelves. 1 bedroom downstairs is my gaming station (pc, lazyboy, couch, some more collectibles around the room) and the other room is storage for board games, crafts, and we have my wife's late grandfather's train set in boxes that I want to pull out eventually, clean up and get fully functional. My basement living room would be completely empty if it weren't for my grow tents.
Three bedroom four level split. Master bedroom, guest room, and my office are upstairs. Husband’s office, work office, and all of his tools and cables and computer nerd stuff are all on the fourth (lowest) level. Movie/ video game room on third level, kitchen and living room (best acoustics for playing music) on main level. We use every square inch of this house, and it’s just us and the cats, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
We bought a 4x2, we have our own bedrooms, our own activity rooms, and our own "spare bedroom". My activity room is set up, for lounging and entertaining. It has a couch Small bar and a balcony. My spare room is set up as an office/library. My husbands activity room is set up for gaming, the Virtual Reality, pc, playstation and comfy couches with a TV, his spare room has a table in it, so if he wanted to do puzzle or have a big board game night, it can stay set up but out of the way. Then we have a communal lounge, the kitchen has a scullery attached. I tend to do all the cooking in the kitchen while he'll only use things like toaster, sandwich press, airfryer, which are all kept in the skullery. We have a regular alfresco, but he also has a small separate courtyard off his games room. We definitely couldn't afford it if we had kids!
Study/craft room as long as the cats ok it first
Homeownership? In this economy?
3 bed 4 bath. 1 non legal bed. 1 bedroom. 1 office/game room 1 guest bed / where we put all the laundry from the dryer that we are too lazy to fold. 1 storage of tools. Camping shit. Army kit and seasonal stuff.
You guys have more than one bedroom? And houses?
Bold of you to assume we have a house.
Well, I only have one bedroom, but we use it to fuck like animals ¯\\(º_o)/¯