My daughter recently moved out, so had plan to turn her room into a winter training room ... set up zwift and smart trainer, floor mat and fan.
Tried it the other day ... way too much sweat splashing about to be doing it indoors ... so rollers back in garage.
Wife has taken ownership of room for ironing & vacuum cleaner storage.
Spare room?? No chance. Guests either get our room, or are on the sofa. MiL stays in the pub when she visits.
Sometimes we let the kids use the ballroom for an impromptu game of five-a-sides.
"[i]One for guests, the other a general dumping ground for "stuff".[/i]"
This.
Plus the east wing of course, but I can't remember what's out there. I can't be bothered walking all that way just to have a look.
Guests and animals....
The missus moved in a few months ago, and she used to keep a bearded dragon and tortoises in the front room! Wasn't having that so they got relegated to the spare room.
Other than that just storage.
The second bedroom in the flat gets used for the cat litter box/feeders, storing bicycles and working on bikes if required.
However, all that stuff gets dragged out and put in my bedroom if I have airbnb people staying - it also has a sofa bed
One is an office and the other is guest room/
+ another
The missus moved in a few months ago, and she used to keep a bearded dragon and tortoises in the front room!
Is that a euphemism?
One 'study' which is filled with her rubbish and a boy's toys room which is full of important things like HiFi, records, Lego, old cameras that will never work again and musical instruments that haven't been played for a while.
Downstairs guest bedroom which usually has someone or other in it, at the mo it's the granddaughter.
One is a laundry room (was supposed to be a nursery) and the other is used for camping/sports/Army kit. It's known as the G4 room.
If the cellar counts as a spare room then it's got my home office, technical lego and drum kit in.
The old 1's n 2's are in the spare room, along with about 1000+ vinyls. I'm now considering putting a racing sim in the room or under the stairs, just have to find a new place for the 3D printer 😕
One is a guest room. I ue another as a bedroom if Mrs Z is having a restless night and I go and sleep there to get some kip. The smallest bedroom is used as a storage room.
None of which seem pointless to me.
We actually have a front dining room downstairs, which faces north east and is on the road so it's a miserable gloomy room despite having a wood burner and a warm colour scheme. While my MIL was dying with cancer it became a hospice room full of equipment and for that it was quite good as the nurses and carers could nip in without needing to go upstairs. Apart from that it gets no use at all so that's a valuable lesson for when we build the dream house in Scotland. Upstairs we have a box room and a spare bedroom, which do get used for guests occasionally and at other times as cat bedrooms.
One guest room which I may use if called out on standby, the other is a study, the final one is used for (clean) bike storage.
Showing off that we have spare rooms.
I'm not allowed to store so much as a winter blanket in either as it wouldn't go with the decor!
My OH is weird.
[edit] We already have a study, 'craft room', and garage for work and hers/his hobbies respectively and a loft for storage.
The Bigger one:
Office
Film watching/videogame playing
Lego
Magazine storage
Turbo
The Smaller one:
Bikes
the upstairs one is used for drying clothes and storing stuff like ruck sacks, sleeping bags, tents and camping stuff. The downstairs one is used to store bikes and as somewhere to do yoga when it's raining or too cold to go outside.
One is an office and the other is guest room
Another +1, though both also have outdoor stuff stored in them, but both are tidy! I cant cope with clutter. Poor p20 has learnt to live with me!
Guest room, office, craft room, bike room, staff.
Hang on, are we talking the Winter or Summer residence?
The spare three bathrooms, sometimes take a dump in them just for funzies.
The four spare bedrooms are just empty.
I'd love a spare. House is wall to wall with mrsmf's stuff, and if not hers, the kids. So the problem with wanting a spare is that I'd have to claim it by filling it with crap before anyone else did, and then it would be unusable anyway.
Our spare room doubles as a guest room (fold out sofa bed)/gym space/pole room (yeah, spinning pole, wall of mirrors..normal like..)
It's got Karndean flooring, so more suited to its spare room duties than 'room duties'..
DrP
A gym, a home office, a room for the cats, a room stacked with furniture I've inherited but not disposed of yet, a workshop, and then of course there's the proper spare room for guests.
Three of us in a 4 bed house, 1 spare room has mostly wife's clothes and the other is a drying room - both have beds in.
I suppose we have a spare room downstairs - it's got my turbo, weights and a pool table in it. Son has the biggest downstairs room as a play room which would be spare but it's supposed to be a dining room but we eat in the kitchen.
One is a guest bedroom, one a study and the other a "chuck it in there, close the door and forget about it" room.
