[miaandme]

Hi,

We are a family of 6 and have 5 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms + study. We have a combined kitchen, living and dining and then another toy/media room and then a small upstairs rumpus.

Prior to building this house we had 4 bedrooms (one very tiny) and one bathroom. Bathrooms weren't an issue as all my kids are small. We also had one living space and a large deck, so it wasn't all that squished. If it had just one more living space we could have happily stayed there.

I think its very personal what you need. In our old house it was a bit claustrophic as I had 3 out of 4 kids home most of the week, so it felt like there was always someone underfoot. But I think if the kids were older and at school most of the time that wouldn't be such an issue. Plus soooo many toys with little kids, that does dwindle over time.

Good luck

[Fabulous]

We are a family of 7. We currently live in a small 4 bed, 2 bath, 1 living area house. We are currently building a 6 bed, study, 3 living areas house. We chose 3 x 4m for all of the minor bedrooms. Our house is going to be 350 sqm which is 3 times the floor area of our current house!!

This post has been edited by Fabulous: 23/04/2012, 06:40 PM

[MickeyBoo]

We have four kids, very soon to be five, and two adults in the house. We have three bedrooms, one bathroom, teensy kitchen, dining, lounge and large rumpus with a big backyard.

The kids bedrooms are small at around 2.7x2.4 and the master bedroom is bigger with a large built in robe (we can fit a king bed in there comfortably). We have two kids in bunks in each room and they fit well with room to move.

We're in the process of getting extensions done which will give us a large parents retreat style room with 3x3m ensuite, and 3x3m WIR, an extra 2 bedrooms at 3x3m each with an additional space between for BIRs, a new dining area, extended living area and bigger kitchen. We're also looking at having the BIR in our original master bedroom split so that the bedroom behind has a BIR too. The changes will almost double our floor space from about 100-200sqm.

Our eldest kid is almost 10 and our youngest is 2.5, and there's been no issue with sharing so far, but with the addition of a #5 we need to get the house sorted this year and they will end up with having a room each, or two will share the larger room and we can use one of the smaller rooms as a study and open up the rumpus a bit more.

I couldn't imagine having them all squished in there once the older two hit their teen years and we have felt a little overcrowded at times here, but the extra living space and large backyard gives us room to move away from each other. My biggest sore point is the kitchen and only having one bathroom.