2 Bedrooms + Den vs 3 Bedrooms

[Terrel L. Shields]

I was in a 4-bedroom house once that had a door exiting every bedroom to the outside. The owner stated that 30 years earlier, the original house burned and 2 of the occupants barely escaped by window and both were severely burned and hospitalized with smoke in their lungs. When he built back the house, he vowed easy access to the exterior from all bedrooms. I thought it extremely sane idea.

 

[J Grant]

Yep there are many ways not everything fits nice and tight. Someone going out a window of the 10th+ floor isnt much of a fire escape, but its still a bedroom. And an elderly person might not be able to get through a full sized window, but still a bedroom. Elderly person might have more of a shot going out the door and through a room to the exterior than trying to go through a window.

I agree with you, but we do not make the fire codes nor ANSI regs - so we have to report it a certain way.

 

[J Grant]

I was in a 4-bedroom house once that had a door exiting every bedroom to the outside. The owner stated that 30 years earlier, the original house burned and 2 of the occupants barely escaped by window and both were severely burned and hospitalized with smoke in their lungs. When he built back the house, he vowed easy access to the exterior from all bedrooms. I thought it extremely sane idea.

A door to the ourisde access is still outside egress

The door in the OP floor plan exits to what appears to be an enclosed sunroom.

 

[Bobby Bucks]

I've had many discussions, arguments, debates etc. with agents about finished rooms over garages, additions, flex rooms and similar rooms which aren't technically bedrooms and it seems that in many cases the market doesn't care as much as the guidelines do. I had a guy get angry one time on a refinance because I didn't consider the flex room in his interior townhouse a bedroom because the builder's floorplan and the listing agent called it one. I've noticed in most townhouse subdivisions there is little to no difference sales prices for 2-3 bedroom units when the room in question is one of those cursed flex rooms in an interior unit.

 

[CGinMN]

Many 1950s-era homes lack egress windows in all the bedrooms.

 

[CGinMN]

Many people nowadays use the 3rd bedroom as their home office. Fewer people are having kids, and those who have kids have fewer. Also, people are more likely to WFH at least part of the time. Homebuyers will only need two sleeping rooms, but tell their realtor they need at least a three-bedroom home. Ideally, MLS would have a search parameter for the total # of BRs+Office/Dens.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

s to be an enclosed sunroom.

That sunroom does appear to have a slider to the outside onto the deck (pg 1)

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Many 1950s-era homes lack egress windows in all the bedrooms.

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The idea of the slider windows were security - more difficult for a burglar. Also gave the house a FL Wright "prairie home" look with the low profile made to look wider by virtue of the vertical sliding windows and low pitch roof. But definitely not for easy access. My garage has vertical windows (my office is in the back third of the garage) And I did that deliberately since I lived in a travel trailer, my office was an apartment then, and I was in the oil fields for weeks at a time. I intended for the building to resist robbers as best possible. I didn't build a house for 7 years after I built the shop.

 

[timd354]

Yep there are many ways not everything fits nice and tight. Someone going out a window of the 10th+ floor isnt much of a fire escape, but its still a bedroom. .

Going out the window on the 10th floor will certainly allow one to escape the fire, but it does present other problems.

 

[timd354]

Yep there are many ways not everything fits nice and tight. Someone going out a window of the 10th+ floor isnt much of a fire escape, but its still a bedroom. .

Going out the window on the 10th floor will certainly allow one to escape the fire, but it does present other problems.

I was in a 4-bedroom house once that had a door exiting every bedroom to the outside. The owner stated that 30 years earlier, the original house burned and 2 of the occupants barely escaped by window and both were severely burned and hospitalized with smoke in their lungs. When he built back the house, he vowed easy access to the exterior from all bedrooms. I thought it extremely sane idea.

It certainly makes sense.