House too big, what to do with the extra rooms?

Don’t you have any ideas of a bathroom or a 40 sqm room?

Well, I don’t. “The bathroom” doesn’t exist; there are beautiful and ugly ones, well and poorly laid out ones. You really have to see it. Just like the 40 sqm room. 40 sqm alone says absolutely nothing if you don’t know how high the ceiling is (2m ceiling height and the room would be unusable for me, 40 sqm or not). Or how many windows there are and what size.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Is it really surprising that someone wants to take a look before saying anything? Apart from standard suggestions like fitness or hobby room, I wonder why an artist, who should be creative, has no ideas at all for additional space. Usually, one has the opposite problem: too many ideas and too little space.

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I am already planning my hobby workshop on the ground floor. The 40sqm utility room is located on the upper floor. I find that very impractical for a workshop. Then I would have to carry everything all the way through the house.
I don’t need a hobby room.
Nor an office.
Not a laundry room either, I have never ironed.
I don’t need a playroom either, I hate children.
I also don’t need another storage room.

Conclusion: I can turn it any way I want. The house is too big and will probably remain so due to the historic preservation status. Therefore, I am currently looking for something smaller.

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But that should actually be understandable, that you don’t take photos during a house viewing and then post them online. Or would you like it if everyone here talked about your messy bedroom and your lingerie was lying around in the background?
Whether a bathroom is ugly or beautiful, long or square, it remains a bathroom that is not needed.
The 40sqm utility room has 2 small windows and a ceiling height of 2m.
And even an artist doesn’t have to know everything.

I don't need a playroom either, I hate children.

You were once small too; I hope your parents didn't hate you. ;) I don't have a playroom in the house today either, my brothers and I had one as children back then.

Conclusion: I can twist and turn it however I want. The house is too big and will probably remain so due to historic preservation. Therefore, I am currently looking for something smaller.

Good plan.
For me, it was like this: I was able to buy the house cheaply within the family. I have no desire to rent out parts of my own house, so I have a bit too much space, but I manage. And if that should ever change, I can always sell or rent it out. Maybe one of my parents will be left alone someday and can move in, but they live in the same town anyway in their own single-family house.

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But it should actually be understandable that you don’t take photos during a house viewing and then post them on the internet. Or would you like it if everyone here talked about your messy bedroom and your lingerie was lying around in the background?

But if there are pictures and they are publicly accessible, why shouldn’t you look at them? The house is empty after all. At least it was mentioned earlier that it is this house and my post referred to that. I also somehow don’t understand the problem; if you already know that you need little space, why search for large houses? When we searched, we entered the corresponding minimum criteria into the search mask and anything that didn’t meet those criteria wasn’t shown at all. It may be that the selection is then limited, but that’s the disadvantage when you have relatively narrow ideas.

Hm - I hadn’t checked this thread again the last few days.
I’m just wondering in which direction this has developed.

The users try to get a (as comprehensive as possible) picture to give reasonable advice and then they get insulted :eek:. Surely – since the users do not know , they couldn’t know that she hates children and that’s why the suggestions go in a direction that she doesn’t like.
Well – it apparently wasn’t the house she was looking for, although all the details revealed here matched. It must then be a twin house, which is currently for sale at a similar price in the same area (where is the head-scratch emoji when you actually need it).

Btw. – when I let the following quote sink in:

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And what does Google tell you what I should do with 2 surplus bathrooms, 3 surplus rooms and 40 sqm of usable area?
What kind of pictures do you look at on Google? Don’t you have any idea of a bathroom or a 40 sqm room?
Nonsense writes Musketier and it is nonsense [B]when users Google answers to my questions here or send me links with ramshackle houses in the middle of nowhere which I absolutely would have to buy. I can do that myself. Only I want to hear personal opinions from people who are also facing the problem of too much living space. Like the suggestions regarding the fitness room.

Ramshackle houses in the middle of nowhere – is currently considering buying a building from the 18th century in the same district (=middle of nowhere) which has roughly the same renovation status as the link she posted (=ramshackle house according to her).

For me, this discussion is already going quite in the direction of "trollposting" – and this is a term that 1. I don’t like to see and 2. like to use even less. But here it seems appropriate.

She now seems to have come to the conclusion that this property is not the right one – so we should let it be. At least I will now sign off from this thread.

: So because I was small once, am I supposed to set up a playroom now??

: I wouldn’t know where there should be pictures of the house that are also publicly accessible. How do you come up with that? Sure, on the realtor’s website the property is listed with 4 photos. But neither the 2 unnecessary bathrooms nor the 40 sqm utility room are shown there. And how do you come up with the idea that the house is empty? It is still fully inhabited. How likely do you think it is that I find a small house with 70-80 sqm? Well, I would say the probability is close to 0. Just as an example: On immobilienscout I currently find 97 houses in the area where I am searching. Exactly 0 of these houses are smaller than 85 sqm. So I think you don’t have to look for something that doesn’t exist.

: I wouldn’t know what to do with a gallery. I’m not someone who likes or paints pictures. My art is created on the PC, for that my study is enough.