Children's room and bedroom - What size is recommended?

We have just over 16 m2 for sleeping, with a "normal" wardrobe measuring 4.75m in length, so no dressing room. For me, only a bed belongs in the bedroom, I don't like to have a desk, TV, or anything else there. Therefore, 14 m2 would have been enough for me. But I do like the open spaces. The children each have 27 m2.

And the children's rooms were the most important. If necessary, we would have reduced our own. What was not important to us at all was a separate bathroom for parents and children. We still have a larger shower in the guest WC on the ground floor.

The girls therefore have 20.6 sqm and 21.6 sqm. We have 16.9 sqm plus 7 sqm walk-in closet. Additional storage space will also be provided in our walk-in closet.

I don't think it's bad to have large children's rooms. The girls are still very young and will live with us for a while. If they later want to study, for example, in GI, they could also live at home and be in GI in 15 minutes by bus. Therefore, I think the space is also well used.

But everyone just has their own priorities [emoji4]

With us, it's about 13sqm for the bedroom, 8sqm for the dressing room, and 2x children's rooms of 19sqm each – that's how it turned out based on the floor plan, originally 15sqm was planned for the children's rooms. The argumentation is like with most here: parents only sleep there, children's rooms are also for staying in, although I find the argument about space requirements for children over 14 years only partially suitable. They shouldn't just hang around at home but socialize, meaning doing sports and/or activities with friends.

If they want to study, I will advise them to get a shared flat room at the start of their studies, because that's where you learn for life, and especially the very "wild" time during studies as a home sleeper?! No thanks, I want to spare them that experience. Of course, they are always welcome at home and of course living at home is always an option. Independence is probably better promoted during that phase through their own shared flat room/their own apartment... so we actually wouldn't need the 19sqm children's rooms – but they don't bother either [emoji6].

Our children grew up in 10-person rooms without major collateral damage. It shouldn’t be too cozy, otherwise they’ll never move out. The 13-person rooms are really okay. 15-person bedrooms including a walk-in closet can hardly be smaller. At most, you can take the wardrobe from [MöbelKraft] instead of walk-in, and then add 0.5 per child on top. But seriously. We have 15-person bedrooms. I would find smaller annoying. You also want to be able to walk around a bit in there. Karsten

PS [Eldea] is preparing [Hotel MAMA].

Our children grew up in 10-person rooms without any major collateral damage. It shouldn't be too cozy, otherwise they never move out. The 13-person rooms are really okay. A 15-person bedroom including a walk-in closet can hardly be smaller. You can at most take the wardrobe from MöbelKraft instead of a walk-in, and then add 0.5 per child on top. But seriously. We have 15-person bedrooms. I would find smaller annoying. You also want to be able to move around a bit inside. Karsten

PS Eldea is preparing Hotel MAMA.

What does that have to do with Hotel Mama? My priority is not that the children move out quickly, but that they get a good education.

But nevertheless, these are all just speculations now. I can't say how things will turn out later anyway. And depending on that, we'll just sell the house when we're old.

Eldea, calm down again. The sentence that the now little girls can later take the bus to university in Giessen made me a bit alert. Nothing else. By the way, we didn’t upset anyone in the house, neither my wife nor I. They just did what is healthy: they left on their own eventually. Daughter with husband and grandchildren now live 300 meters next to us, but son far away in Austria. He simply has a good job there. Karsten