- Joined
- Sep 23, 2004
- Professional Status
- Certified Residential Appraiser
- State
- Texas
My hard stop for the bedroom classification is whether the occupant of said room has to traverse a public area (such as the kitchen, or living room) to reach a bathroom. If so, it is dysfunctional as sleeping quarters, and no architect would label such a room as "a bedroom". I appraised a multimillion dollar home several years ago where the upstairs bedroom overlooked the indoor swimming pool. Said room was huge, and the occupant of this room had all the space needed for privacy if they stayed off the balcony portion of that room. There was no wall separating "the sleeping portion" from "the balcony portion", it was obviously the "owners" bedroom, and I had no problem calling it the same.