What's the average size of secondary bedrooms?

PinkeLLe2 · February 2011

We've looked at building with 2 different builders now and the secondary bedrooms are very very small to me. Both secondary bedrooms of the model home we toured today were 10x12. Maybe it just seems small to me but looking in that room today, I don't see how I could fit my 2 year olds furniture in there and all he has is a twin bed and a dresser. I was just wondering what the average size was??

dancergirl21 · February 2011

Most that we have seen are also in the neighborhood of 10x12. We have even seen a few that are 10x10 and that seems TINY (though these are condos in Chicago, so something to consider). We saw one second bedroom that was listed as 10x12 and had a queen bed in it with a very small dresser. It fit, but was tight.

jacksjerseygirl · February 2011

Oh gosh we just relocated states and are in a rental now while we decide if want to build or buy. The bedroom DS has now is 12 by 13 and I think that is SMALL.

Our previous home as well as ones we are looking at now have bedrooms of 14 x 13, 14x15 - those are much more reasonable.

Good luck

ZestofLime · February 2011

I think it is going to be hard to pin down a national average here.

In my first house, the 2nd and 3rd bedroom were 11.5 x 10. The 4th bedroom was 15 x 10.

In the condo I am renting, the 2nd bedroom is 9 x 10.

megstoo · February 2011

We just bought and our 2nd bedroom is 9x13

3rd bedroom is: 9x9 - we use this as an office

Our masterbed is 10x14 so not much bigger but it was the sacrafice for the larger rooms in the rest of the house.

MommyLiberty5013 · February 2011

Our secondary rooms are 10x11 and our house was built 2 years ago. One of them we use as a guest room and it is spacious enough for a double bed, night stand and a small desk with a chair. It's totally fine.

The other room is ours son's nursery. It holds his regular sized crib, his changing table and his oversized glider chair.

Our master is 12 x 19. We have a king-sized bed, two nightstands, a 4' dresser, an armchair and a 2.5" dresser in it. To be honest, I wish it were smaller so that we could have that footage in the downstairs. Besides, how much time do you really spend there anyway?

thew8isover · February 2011

We're building and I think our secondary rooms are a nice size. 11 x 13, 12 x 12, and 12 x 11. Our master is 19 x 14. Does the builder offer other floor plans with larger rooms?

ArcadianDreams · March 2011

I think if you're building you should be able to adjust the floor plans to enlarge the bedrooms if you want to, right? My bedroom as a kid was something like 12x14 and I never had an issue with it. The two in our current home are more like 10x10 and I agree, they feel *really* small. But around here it's a tradeoff between building new and being close to things.

101709lovey · March 2011

In my first house both of my bedrooms were 12x12 and I felt like it was cramped in there. In this house, the master is on the 1st floor, but we use it as our office (we weren't into having people walk through our bedroom to use the bathroom, for ex) and I want to say its about 15x15, give or take. The other 2 bedrooms are on the 2nd floor and they go from one end of the house to the other. They are around 16x33 and its awesome (we def got lucky). I won't say that our next house down the road will have to have giant bedrooms like that, but I def want something on the bigger side. For me, I would think something around 15x15 or so would be a good fit so that it didn't feel cramped w/ all of the furniture.

I agree w/ pp that if you are looking at building the builder should be able to adjust the floor plan a little to accommodate a slightly larger room. GL!

Knitty · March 2011

New construction seems to be much much smaller than the rooms we grew up with. Our minimum was 175 square feet, which ruled out all new construction. We wanted to be able to fit a double bed, a desk and drawers in a room.

May-Bride · March 2011

Most new construction homes I have seen have giant master suites and tiny secondary bedrooms. My in-laws built their house in 2009 and their largest secondary bedroom is 10x11. Our house was built in 1971 our smallest secondary bedroom is 12x11.

biblionerd · March 2011

Every house I've lived in my entire life has averaged 10x12 for secondary rooms. In our current house one is 10x12 and one is 12x15 which is a nice change.

Panda+ · March 2011

This is so specific to location. In many of the homes we saw, the master was 10x12 or 12x12. Secondary bedrooms were 9x9, or sometimes narrow and 7x12. We saw a few conversions of a 3 bedroom into a 2 bedroom to make bigger rooms.

curlylocks3 · March 2011

I think it just depends. Growing up my bedroom was 11x11 and my brother's was 12x11 and we both had twin beds, a night stand and two dressers and this fit just fine.

Sabrina_Isabella · August 2013

My bedroom is 10'x13' and I've had it since the age of 4 (am now 18) and it has never felt cramped! I have a standard sized ikea desk in my room, attached to a wall shelf area that is 1ft deep and 4.5'x4.5'. Then I have a dresser that is 1.5' deep, 4' high and about 3' in length. I also have a bookshelf that is 6' tall and about 2.5' wide with a 1' depth as well as a queen sized bed and a 1'x1' night stand. Personally, I think my room is a great size! I still have enough space to exercise (I do yoga and Pilates when I have time in my room) and can comfortably sit at my desk, access all my drawers and closet, ect. When I first got the bigger bed, I had to plan out where to put everything and it did limit my options somewhat, but it worked out perfectly fine!

I do have the master bedroom of the house. One secondary bedroom that was my older sisters room and is now my moms office is 10'x10' and my parents room - the other secondary bedroom - is 11'x11.5'. My parents have a king sized bed in their room, 2 night stands, both about a foot squared, a really long dresser (about 6' long) that is 2' deep, and a vintage chair. My sister had a twin bed, a nightstand a bookshelf, and a desk + chair in her former room which was 10'x10' - she now has the biggest room downstairs which is meant as a family room. Our other guest room downstairs is 10'x11' and has a closet thats 4' broad, 2.5' deep and 6' tall, a dresser thats about 1.5' deep and 2' broad and a twin sized bed.

Try preplanning it all on word or pages or some other online program where you can sketch out the room and try and arrange things by the measurements. Or you can just draw it out!

Hope this helped

mcskatcat · August 2013

I think 12x10 is pretty standard. I would suggest looking at ways to organize his closet so that he doesn't need the dresser - or even consider putting the dresser in the closet so that it frees up room.

SURFERxGIRL · August 2013

That sounds pretty standard to me, but I think it would change based on location. My room in my parents house (built in the late 1990s) was about 10.5x10.5 and was the largest of the 3 spare bedrooms. I think I had a full size bed, small side table and a desk in there. The rooms in our house are slightly larger, but not by much. We looked at houses that were built anywhere from 1912 and on, and with the exception of a couple of homes we saw most of the bedrooms seemed a bit on the smaller side with the older homes feeling more "claustrophobic" and cramped to me.

vpine · August 2013

Our bedrooms upstairs are: 11x11, 10x11, 13x11

Wulfgar · August 2013

It depends on the price of the house. Most houses built in the past had additional bedrooms in the 10x10 to 12x12 size. Most of the newer homes that are being built may have larger secondary bedrooms.

moonprincessd · August 2013

our bedrooms are on the smallish side. The master is 10x12 and the 2nd bedroom is 10X11.

To me they seem decent, but we lived in an apartment with smaller rooms so this was like an upgrade for me. I don't think a kid needs much space, we could definitely fit a twin size bed in there, with a desk and a dresser.

The previous owner had a king size bed in the master bedroom and still was able to fit in 2 dressers, so we're not worried since we only have a queen size.

It also depends on layout. Is the room going to be perfectly square? rectangle? (both of ours are) or are they going to have odd nooks and crannies?

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