What Should You Do With A Bonus Room In A House?
A bonus room is one of those extra spaces found in the house that does not fit within the definitions of the other rooms found in the house. Bedrooms and other rooms have their names and particular uses whereas the bonus room does not. The bonus room still can be useful for the homeowner and this article explores what homeowners might want to utilize their bonus rooms for.
What Exactly Is A Bonus Room?
As mentioned above a bonus room is usually not one of the other typical rooms like bedroom, family room, living room, or den. Sometimes the bonus room is found in the upper levels of the home like an attic space that has been finished. The room may not be large but is still big enough to utilize in some way. When in an attic there may be slanted ceilings or lower than normal ceilings. Basically, it is not a typical room and rather than let that room be wasted space someone (builder or the homeowner) decided to covert that room to usable space.
Can A Bonus Room Be Used As A Bedroom?
Depending on the size of the bonus room, some can be used as a bedroom. Whether it can be described as a bedroom in marketing remarks when selling a home is a different story. In most locations a bedroom has to have a closet and two ways in/out of the bedroom (a window can be one of those ways) in order to be legally called a bedroom. So, a bonus room on the third-floor attic space may not be technically called a bedroom that does not mean people won’t use it...