Are there rooms in your house you don't use?

[Blzer]

I just got to thinking that the biggest room in our house, our living room, practically goes unused. Not only that, but it's connected openly to our dining room, which we don't eat at. What a waste of space in this massive area.

What's funny is our neighborhood has symmetrical house design pairs (so there is a house on my street that's a mirror of my house), and their living room is furnished in a different way so that it gets a lot of use.

I went to my colleague's house yesterday who lives in a rich part of town, and I can name some rooms off the top of my head, which are fully furnished, that I doubt are ever frequented.

Same thing for anybody else here?

[Redacted01]

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With my brother and I not at home any more, the entire upstairs is rarely used except for December when I visit and the occasional weekend when he is home. The dining room has furniture, but we never eat in there. The piano in there does get played sometimes.

[KingV2k3]

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I went to my colleague's house yesterday who lives in a rich part of town, and I can name some rooms off the top of my head, which are fully furnished, that I doubt are ever frequented.

This reminds me of MTV Cribs, where the host would show us a furnished room and say "Well, this is one of the only times I've actually been in this room" (or something to that effect)...

When I was a kid, some of my friends had living rooms that had the furniture covered in those custom plastic covers and it was most certainly a forbidden "no fun zone"...

Personally, as much as I think those two examples are goofy, I DO have a spare bedroom that seems to only function as a place to dry out my gym stuff...

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Spare bed room don't get used other then to store stuff in there I don't want in the main house. Sun room other then to walk through it to get to the garage, I don't spend no time in there even though it has furniture in there.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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When I was a kid, some of my friends had living rooms that had the furniture covered in those custom plastic covers and it was most certainly a forbidden "no fun zone"...

All my aunts and uncles had their living room that way, only 2 had plastic covers though. Had to be 21 or over to go up in there. It was for adults only.....As a child that pissed me off and when they would be outside, I would sneak up in there to sit on the furniture.

That furniture was so soft......tv up in there was 50 inches, which for the 1980s and 1990s was considered very big. Had all kinds of crown royal, jim bean and grey goose bottles up in there. Cans full of butter cookies was on the tables.

I really think my aunts and uncles grew up with that slave plantation mentality. Because if you were a kid, you were never allowed to enter the front of the house, you had to enter through the back of the house. Your shoes had to be taken off as well if you were a child. Only adults were allowed to enter through the front of the house.

Adults sat on the good furniture, ate the good food, which meant the adults got the white meat or better parts of the food, kids got stuck with the dark meat or what ever the adults didn't want. Adults were served in the dinning room. Kids were delegated to eating in the kitchen, the basement or on the back porch. If adults entered a room and started a conversation with another adult there, you were to back out the room and leave without saying a word.

Dead serious, kids weren't allowed to be around adults when adults were talking. Didn't make a difference though half of the time because some of my aunts and uncles talked so loud, I still heard them in the next room.

As a child that was so weird to me, because my parents weren't like that, but their sisters and brothers were. And my parents use to say when you at somebody else house, you have to abide by their rules and that is how it was for them growing up because their parents and grand parents did the same thing.

As an adult now, a good amount of my cousins still carry on that messed up mentality in their households. I think to myself why ? Don't they remember when we were kids we hated that separation and being treated differently ? Why make their kids go through that ?

[Chaos81]

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Spare bedroom barely gets used, but everything else does, even though it's mostly for storage.

[AUChase]

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Just the den and my sisters old bedroom.

[LowerWolf]

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I almost never go into my guest room. It's at the end of the hall upstairs, so I just close the door and it's like it's not even there. There's also a half bath downstairs that rarely gets used.

[HealyMonster]

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I have this "spare" living room. the living room I use has the fireplace in it,etc the spare one is in the front of the house, with a big window in it, no use for it whatsoever. Ive been in my house 6 years this October its pretty much empty. I just had a kid so plans are to make it a playroom, we will see how that pans out.

[gerg1234]

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I live in a 900 sq ft apartment with my girlfriend. Every square inch of space gets utilized...mostly for storage of her crap.

[the_future420]

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Me and my fiance bought a house last year. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs and we only use two - our room, and our sons nursery. The other room is a guest room that is rarely used, and a 4th bedroom that we use just for ironing clothes. Space is pretty much going to waste. Our basement is also unfinished right now and its about 800 sq ft so thats not being used either, well other than for laundry. We just look at it as having room to grow into the house. We plan on having more kids so eventually those rooms will get used. Might turn one into an exercise room too

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Me and my fiance bought a house last year. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs and we only use two - our room, and our sons nursery. The other room is a guest room that is rarely used, and a 4th bedroom that we use just for ironing clothes. Space is pretty much going to waste. Our basement is also unfinished right now and its about 800 sq ft so thats not being used either, well other than for laundry. We just look at it as having room to grow into the house. We plan on having more kids so eventually those rooms will get used. Might turn one into an exercise room too

Look at it this way, you and your wife don't ever have to move for a long time, if ever. Unless you guys start having too many kids too close together in age.

[areobee401]

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Every room at my place is used. The 3rd bedroom was converted into a gaming room. Fiancee didn't want a gaming console in the living room, which was fine by me. Got my own room out it.

The great room at my folks house is never used. Basically just for show. Might have sat in there twice in all the time I lived there.

[mgoblue]

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Me and my fiance bought a house last year. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs and we only use two - our room, and our sons nursery. The other room is a guest room that is rarely used, and a 4th bedroom that we use just for ironing clothes. Space is pretty much going to waste. Our basement is also unfinished right now and its about 800 sq ft so thats not being used either, well other than for laundry. We just look at it as having room to grow into the house. We plan on having more kids so eventually those rooms will get used. Might turn one into an exercise room too

Look at it this way, you and your wife don't ever have to move for a long time, if ever. Unless you guys start having too many kids too close together in age.

Yeah, we don't have a basement, but 2 of our 3 bedrooms in our house aren't used much now. One is a guest bedroom and the other is storage until we have kids. Eventually we figure both can be for kids depending on how many we have.

We should be ok on size of house for a while, unless we have tons of kids lol. Then we'd have to upgrade size wise, but in theory you can put 4 kids in 2 rooms fairly easily.

We didn't want anything smaller than 3 bedrooms for this reason though. For now it's nice having a guest room, but otherwise it'll be enough space for us. We'll see how long we can stay here or not, but we bought at a great time so it's a solid investment (value going up, not down).

[dickey1331]

I don't really use my spare bedroom except when I put the dogs in their creates.