Hellobee Boards Topic: Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 25 May 2026 14:02:59 +0000 Grace on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174940 Thu, 31 May 2012 16:24:27 +0000 Grace 174940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Ha! No. We moved in 7 months ago (ok - that is not sounding like a great excuse anymore), but the den has a couch, a computer and the piano. I've used the piano a few times. Also, the one-day-will-be-a-nursery is just a junk room right now. Definitely don't use the whole house, but I imagine one day we will be wanting more space and we'll be dreaming about these days. twodoghouse on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174932 Thu, 31 May 2012 16:01:54 +0000 twodoghouse 174932@https://boards.hellobee.com/ It's just the two of us humans + two dogs, so there's a lot of generally unused space in our house. We have three extra bedrooms we only use when my family comes to visit (although one is decorated as an office - but we never use it as that either...). My husband runs on the treadmill in the basement every morning and we occasionally watch a movie down there (bigger tv) but that's it. Mostly we stick to the kitchen/dining room, living room and bedroom. daniellemybelle on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174906 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:43:24 +0000 daniellemybelle 174906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our house is small, but we have two bedrooms and two bathrooms for just the two of us. DH uses the guest bathroom, and the closet in the guest room, but it's not as if he spends a lot of time in there. Ostensibly it's his "office" - he has a desk in there and a little TV - but he mostly works downstairs in the living room. In our new house, we still have an open floor plan downstairs, but the dining area is more separate. I want to make a conscious effort to continue eating at the table in the "dining room" when we move! Mrs. Jacks on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174901 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:40:25 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 174901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Minnie_Girl: You'll be surprised how fast 2500 square feet gets used up! We doubled our square footage when we moved, and yet it still seems like we don't have enough space. Of course we did add 2 kids to the mix too :) BoogieBea on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174893 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:33:29 +0000 BoogieBea 174893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I think we use most of our rooms. We don't use our dining room much for its intended purpose by the kids play in there as the living room spills into it. MsLipGloss on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174892 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:31:59 +0000 MsLipGloss 174892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope. We have 3 bedrooms (and a full bath and sunroom ) upstairs that rarely get used unless we have guests. That will change, however, when butterbean arrives. :) We also rarely use the dining room or breakfast nook now that I think about it. Baby Boy Mom on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174868 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:16:24 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 174868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yup, we use every room every day! But we don't have any "extra" rooms, just the basics, so that's why. StrawberryBee on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174863 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:14:39 +0000 StrawberryBee 174863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ There's no such thing as unused space in our house lol. We have a 1300 sq ft twin, 4 bedrooms, dining room, living room, kitchen. Of the 4 bedrooms one is ours and two belong to my stepchildren. The fourth one houses my books and acts as a guest bedroom when needed (nursery some day? :3). The living room doubles as our office and the dining room houses three dog crates. Mrs. Pickle on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174841 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:05:58 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 174841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have three bedrooms. One is the master, one is my bil's, and one is the guest room. The guest room barely gets used. It stays closed off 90% of the time. I do use the closet for storage. Cole on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174712 Thu, 31 May 2012 13:59:43 +0000 Cole 174712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We do a decent job of using most of our house well but the living room and a small sun room off of it don't get used much right now but to be honest there isn't really any furniture in either room so it makes it hard to use them! Our kitchen has room for two stools at the island but otherwise no room for a table so our dining room is used a lot which I love. We also don't have a family room so our living room will serve as both eventually. A house where we would use it all was important to me when we were looking so I am glad we met those goals. Minnie_Girl on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174687 Thu, 31 May 2012 13:48:51 +0000 Minnie_Girl 174687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We're currently in an apartment and it's necessary to use every nook and cranny to its fullest potential. We just put in an offer on a house, so hopefully by July we'll have unused space galore! 2500 finished square feet PLUS a basement and half an acre of land....ahhhhhh. I'm looking forward to using all of that wonderful space! Rainbow Sprinkles on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174574 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:52:08 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 174574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yep, absolutely. We hang out in our living room, eat in the dining room, sleep in our bedroom, etc. All of the rooms get used. We have two extra bedrooms, but one is the nursery and the other is my "closet." chopsuey on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174570 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:51:30 +0000 chopsuey 174570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ YES! We finally do. We didn't use our downstairs bedroom, but we made it into a man cave for DH. Meridian on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174524 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:29:25 +0000 Meridian 174524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have a second bedroom which used to be an office when I worked at home. This year I moved into an actual office space, so now the 2nd bedroom is rarely used. BUT, hopefully it will be a nursery in the near future! ladyfingers on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174514 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:24:20 +0000 ladyfingers 174514@https://boards.hellobee.com/ lol at the moment, definitely not. We just moved in about a month ago and still need to paint and get things on the wall before we are even fully unpacked. We have a family/reading room that's nowhere near done (even though most of the final furniture is in there), and our office is just kinda *there* right now. And obv the baby's room isn't being used to its fullest potential yet :) heffalump on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174509 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:22:29 +0000 heffalump 174509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope. We have a small house, but it's so hot out so we don't use our porch. We also don't use the guest room often, but our pup does. joyjoy on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174505 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:21:47 +0000 joyjoy 174505@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope. Our second bedroom is basically being used as my giant shoe and coat closet right now. It also houses all our books, but I really only go in there for shoes and coats. Once we move I think every room in our new place will be well utilized, though. Lindsay05 on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174491 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:13:45 +0000 Lindsay05 174491@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes we have a small house and just recently did renovations so that we could actually get more space out of it. When our new arrival comes our house is going to get even smaller! DillonLion on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174490 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:12:46 +0000 DillonLion 174490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our three bedrooms have changed in function dramatically in the one year we've lived there. The master has stayed the same, but the guest bedrooms have changed from one being an office and the other being a guest room...and now the old office has been turned into the guest room and the former guest bedroom is slowly becoming the nursery. Chillybear on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174489 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:12:21 +0000 Chillybear 174489@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 1st floor our living room/dining room is open concept - both get used a lot esp since we eat most meals in the dining room - no eat in kitchen, Kitchen gets used alot. Basement - storage, laundry, messy projects but we don't spend much time there... eventually it will be the office when we finish it. Upstairs - bathroom, our room, office, and spare room all get used esp since spare room is were my wardrobe is kept. Andrea on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174475 Thu, 31 May 2012 12:06:28 +0000 Andrea 174475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not really, we have a pretty big house so we don't need to use all the rooms. When we have guests staying over or parties, then the space is nice, though. MamaMoose on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174461 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:58:36 +0000 MamaMoose 174461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We rarely use our dining room. HLK208 on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174442 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:49:17 +0000 HLK208 174442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not really, our 3rd bedroom is in our basement and it's a little colder down there so that room was empty for the first six months we lived in our house. Now it has a guest bed thats only used once a month or so. But we use the rest of our bedrooms, kitchen and living room equally. MrsBrewer on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174441 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:49:00 +0000 MrsBrewer 174441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We just bought a cape cod style house, so the upstairs has a den and 3rd bedroom. We don't plan on using that yet though. On the main level we have 2 bedrooms, living room and kitchen. So that will be our main living area. We bought the bigger house though because we knew that we would be having chilren in this house. We bought it trying to be prepared for the future. :-) So no, right now we are not utilizing all of our space, but that is ok at the moment! hilsy85 on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174437 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:47:52 +0000 hilsy85 174437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We do, mainly because we have a very open floor plan...so we can spend time in the kitchen and the living room/dining room simultaneously! lavender on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174436 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:47:12 +0000 lavender 174436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We use all of rooms, we used to spend a large chunk of time in our basement/family room but since LO arrived we spend alot more time in our living room. mediagirl on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174432 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:45:52 +0000 mediagirl 174432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We really do use every single room in our house. The dining room is reserved for company but we use it for storing alcohol and wine glasses, so it definitely gets used for those items! For such a large house, I'm happy we use all the rooms. Makes me feel like we are getting our money's worth. :) cyneswith on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174423 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:43:40 +0000 cyneswith 174423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Neither the guest room nor the baby room get a lot of use at the moment. That'll change in a few months! And the guest room is also my sewing room - we've been here under two weeks, so it's not surprising that I haven't done much sewing. Alivoo01 on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174418 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:42:11 +0000 Alivoo01 174418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our office and guest closet get used as extra storage like crazy. Haven't actually used the office as an office even though it's equipped like one. Our guest bedroom does see guests though. cheesetomywhine on "Do you use all the rooms in your house to their fullest potential?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-use-all-the-rooms-in-your-house-to-their-fullest-potential#post-174416 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:40:54 +0000 cheesetomywhine 174416@https://boards.hellobee.com/ The only room that we don't really use a bunch is the dining room. Right now we eat at our coffee table in the connected living room. We walk through it though but I don't think that really counts.