Does A Bedroom Need Full Access To A Full Bath?

[ProBrother]

I have a client insisting that an office on the main level should be considered as a bedroom. But there is no full bath on the floor, but only a half bath.
Can it be considered to be a bedroom?

Is there any Code for bedroom requirement associated with bathroom?

 

[J Grant]

I have a client insisting that an office on the main level should be considered as a bedroom. But there is no full bath on the floor, but only a half bath.

Is there any Code for bedroom requirement associated with bathroom?

No, however it does not mean the office is a bedroom either. Does it have a window, a full door that closes for privacy etc

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

It would fall into the category of functional obsolescence. It was probably designed to be a study/office and since it has a closet (why do they make studies without closets), they want to call it a bedroom. You could tell them that you can call it a bedroom, but since it has poor access to a bath, you will have to knock it for functional obsolescence and inadequate floorplan. Does anybody really adjust for bedroom count anymore with these type of flex rooms? I can see adjusting for a one or two bedroom home in a three to four bedroom market area, but four plus bedrooms really are just additional GLA.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Why not? What "standard" is in print saying it isn't a "bedroom"? Frankly, in the markets I work, it doesn't make a crap what you call it. It is the same utility and certainly I am not going to make an adjustment on the basis of WHAT you call any room.

 

[Dublin ohio]

Why not? What "standard" is in print saying it isn't a "bedroom"? Frankly, in the markets I work, it doesn't make a crap what you call it. It is the same utility and certainly I am not going to make an adjustment on the basis of WHAT you call any room.

So a first floor "bedroom" in a 2 story home where all of the full baths are on the second floor. Has the same utility as "what".

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

Did you explain your value was going to be the same whether you called it a study or a bedroom? Agents are just scrambling to get the most value out of every property they sell. I couldn't get an agent to understand that their house with a garage conversion with no garage parking would not be the same price as a house the same GLA and a fully functional garage because he could only think in price per foot.

 

[Artemis Fowl]

Just say that the area's pronouns are: bedroom/office.

 

[Overimprovement]

To Bedroom or not to bedroom...is in the eye of the beholder. But we opine market value, not individual beholder value. How would the market view that room? Would they value it more as an office or as a bedroom without access to a full bathroom?

And I agree with what others have said, if we are talking going from 4 to 5 bedrooms, pretty limited market segment there. With the work from home craze showing little signs of stopping, I'd rather market it as an office, which by the way, it is.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I've seen too many "bedroom" adjustments that are PFA and not sure that they were not double-dipping with the Sq. footage.

OTOH, I would never buy a 2 story house - never. If young with children, I don't want one to tumble down the stairs - I've known that to happen. If old, same issue PLUS anyone with arthritis or disability means pain going up and down. And I have seen many finished basements where they had no bathroom...but people slept there.

 

[glenn walker]

The 1/2 bath has nothing to do with if it's a bedroom or not