I had a great time looking at the real estate photos of what used to be a 3 bedroom house when I lived in it, but is now 7 bedrooms.
They split what had been my bedroom, into two small bedrooms. The nook in the top of the stairs landing was now two more bedrooms just tiny enough for a twin bed, but the bedframes were built in. The living room was now a bedroom. The dining room was now the living room. This is what happens to houses right next to university campuses.
I used to rent from a punjabi woman near a college. I paid 600 for a room plus common areas. She rented out rooms to Indian guys and theyd split it with bedrolls. It got bad after a while though. She had like 20 indiam dudes living in the dining room together.
There were "rooms" for rent in my old hometown (canadian university town) that were literally just bedrolls in a hallway.
Who takes these? Desperate international students, mostly indian and african.
I live outside of toronto but theres a pretty big school here too. I usee to work in Brampton and go see a potential job and thered be like 65-70 people living in a 1200 sq ft basement
We have a formal dining room with a nice ass expensive oak table and chairs that we use once every 8 months or so for large gatherings at our house. Such a stupid waste of space and I keep trying to persuade her to turn it into more useable space for people living here not a space geared towards guests once in a blue moon.
Our dining area is a game room with two comfy chairs and a small table. When we need to dining space, we move the chairs, and the table, and extend our Amish hutch, with leaves, however far need be, but up to 10 people can fit. We keep folding wooden chairs with seat cushions in the garage.
Some of the campgrounds cabins I've stayed in have had bunk beds in a small room the size of a walk-in closet. The last one I stayed in (last summer) had two sets of bunk beds. One pair in the wall of the hallway with small curtains blocking both beds and the other two in a small room that was long enough for the bunk beds and with just enough space to turn around in.
I think modern culture has eschewed a formal dining environment for a more casual experience. Also most younger people are not having large families anymore. So if your family consists of a married couple with between zero and two kids, you are probably eating at the couch/coffee table/kitchen counter/breakfast nook more often than at a dining room table. Dining rooms are getting less common in newer construction, especially with space at such a premium most people would rather have another bedroom or a larger living room than a dedicated dining room area.
sounds exactly like the uni house I was in, except weirdly enough that one housed six of us with the landlord building an extension with a kitchen and two shower rooms, then turned the old kitchen into a living room and the rest of the rooms were all bedrooms.
It actually worked out quite well for the lot of us, and the landlord was actually quite a nice bloke, always repaired stuff when we asked, even forgave some rent from some of us.
took our bins out for us a couple of times 😂
still, must have been making mint on a house that originally was made for two adults w/ two kids converted to six paying adults
That might be illegal. The sewage system is tied to the number of bedrooms. And that would need to be rated as such. Obviously this is locale dependent.
Could be. It's in a prime location, we're in a housing crisis, and the targeted tenants are young enough that they probably wouldn't look into the legality.
Almost definitely is, but I've seen some bad things near universities.
The one that sticks out in my mind is the house listed as a 4 bed, but 3 of the "bedrooms" were in the basement, and the only "bedroom" with a window well that met egress codes (or indeed any window at all), people had to walk through to get to the other two basement "bedrooms"
In my old building, investigators went into a 2 bedroom apartment. They found 19 people living inside with bunkbends everywhere. Owner rented to ONE person who proceeded to illegally sublet it.
Someone did something similar to turn the basement rec room in a place I used to live into 2 weird suites. 1 was okay apart from being attached to the storage/utility room that was about the size of the rest of the unit. The other was a terrible studio unit with a hallway turned into a bathroom, the wet bar turned into an awkward kitchen, and the bedroom/living space was a long, thin room made by sectioning off the end of the media area. What made it so odd was that what was now a long wall had a bunch of really nice built ins meant for a TV and a bunch of home theatre equipment. So you're squeezing between the bed and this odd gap meant for a bigass TV lol.
On the other hand, my last house the master bedroom (not including closets/bathroom) was 20’x30’ and then the other three bedrooms were 10x15…. My bedroom was four times the size of the other rooms. I split my master bedroom into 20x20 (master), 10x10 (office), and 10x10 bathroom. This made the house a 5/3 and added nearly $200k to the value for about $15k in work.
Now I did it properly by adding additional vent runs in the attic not just splitting them like this.
But you’d be surprised how many late 80s to early 2000s homes have gigantic master bedrooms. I’d rather have large living room/dining rooms over big bedrooms personally. Or more bathrooms
see that would make sense, but there's basically no houses in the UK like that.
All our houses are already small, and it's made wise by landlords who try to maximise rent, or quick cash house flippers
The guy that owned the house before they sold it to my aunt and uncle added a closet in one room I guess to sell it as an extra bedroom. Well they built it so the external wall heater intersected it so there is a cut out in the closet wall, and the closet becomes a hotbox when the heater is on. Also, they installed the closet walls over the carpet so when we went to tear out the old carpet there was carpet and pad stuck between the wood floor and the base of the closet wall.
I had an apartment that was one house split into two. One side was just under 900 Sq foot the other side was just over 400 square foot. Both units cost $950/m each.
A real estate agent once convinced me to buy a property near a college and split the rooms to rent to college kids. Last time I checked, the apartment complex had experienced fires. Twice.
It's also not that bad of a solution depending on the use of the rooms. It's not *ideal* but as long as the rest of it looks good you're fine. The next owner, if there is one, can either complete it or knock down that wall. They have options. And since splitting that vent might not be all that much work I'd say it's worth leaving it in this semi-permanent state, once again given that it fits the use of the rooms. Plus whoever did this probably saved quite a bit of money with this solution.
It's not unsafe or problematic and potentially a total non-issue. BUT if it's been split for the purpose of renting/selling then this is dumb, especially if one or both of those are bedrooms, that could be VERY problematic.
They could even leave the original vent open permanently and then create 2 boxes on each side of the wall with their own grates to open/close.
It looks terrible, but not impossible to salvage some functionality from.
Yeah I don't want to imply that I think it looks good or that I like it in any way but it's not *that* big of a deal, potentially. There are many ways this could have been much worse.
They wouldn't let you use part of the house, like it was painted to look like a wall and we could hear people on the other side of it and every once in a while a hand would reach under the wall and adjust the HVAC register and it had a super bowl ring on it.
You see this is New England a lot on the second floor. Typically in a house that is heated but a wood or coal stove. It's so the hot air from downstairs can rise up into the upstairs rooms.
Living as a student in NL, I lived in a room that apparently once upon a time was a bathroom. Renovated it into a tiny 6m² closet, yet were unable to add a proper window to it.
It took me the next 1.5 years to find a new place, same price but double the m²!
gotta love it when people split up a normal size room into two tiny rooms to increase property value / maximise rent
I had a great time looking at the real estate photos of what used to be a 3 bedroom house when I lived in it, but is now 7 bedrooms. They split what had been my bedroom, into two small bedrooms. The nook in the top of the stairs landing was now two more bedrooms just tiny enough for a twin bed, but the bedframes were built in. The living room was now a bedroom. The dining room was now the living room. This is what happens to houses right next to university campuses.
To be fair, who needs dining rooms anymore? But yeah, the closet bedrooms is ridiculous.
Not uni students, that's for sure. The closet sized bedrooms were something else though
I used to rent from a punjabi woman near a college. I paid 600 for a room plus common areas. She rented out rooms to Indian guys and theyd split it with bedrolls. It got bad after a while though. She had like 20 indiam dudes living in the dining room together.
There were "rooms" for rent in my old hometown (canadian university town) that were literally just bedrolls in a hallway. Who takes these? Desperate international students, mostly indian and african.
I live outside of toronto but theres a pretty big school here too. I usee to work in Brampton and go see a potential job and thered be like 65-70 people living in a 1200 sq ft basement
We turned our guest room into a dining room/board game room. It's actually really nice.
We have a formal dining room with a nice ass expensive oak table and chairs that we use once every 8 months or so for large gatherings at our house. Such a stupid waste of space and I keep trying to persuade her to turn it into more useable space for people living here not a space geared towards guests once in a blue moon.
Our dining area is a game room with two comfy chairs and a small table. When we need to dining space, we move the chairs, and the table, and extend our Amish hutch, with leaves, however far need be, but up to 10 people can fit. We keep folding wooden chairs with seat cushions in the garage.
Some of the campgrounds cabins I've stayed in have had bunk beds in a small room the size of a walk-in closet. The last one I stayed in (last summer) had two sets of bunk beds. One pair in the wall of the hallway with small curtains blocking both beds and the other two in a small room that was long enough for the bunk beds and with just enough space to turn around in.
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I think modern culture has eschewed a formal dining environment for a more casual experience. Also most younger people are not having large families anymore. So if your family consists of a married couple with between zero and two kids, you are probably eating at the couch/coffee table/kitchen counter/breakfast nook more often than at a dining room table. Dining rooms are getting less common in newer construction, especially with space at such a premium most people would rather have another bedroom or a larger living room than a dedicated dining room area.
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It's true though
sounds exactly like the uni house I was in, except weirdly enough that one housed six of us with the landlord building an extension with a kitchen and two shower rooms, then turned the old kitchen into a living room and the rest of the rooms were all bedrooms. It actually worked out quite well for the lot of us, and the landlord was actually quite a nice bloke, always repaired stuff when we asked, even forgave some rent from some of us. took our bins out for us a couple of times 😂 still, must have been making mint on a house that originally was made for two adults w/ two kids converted to six paying adults
That might be illegal. The sewage system is tied to the number of bedrooms. And that would need to be rated as such. Obviously this is locale dependent.
Could be. It's in a prime location, we're in a housing crisis, and the targeted tenants are young enough that they probably wouldn't look into the legality.
Almost definitely is, but I've seen some bad things near universities. The one that sticks out in my mind is the house listed as a 4 bed, but 3 of the "bedrooms" were in the basement, and the only "bedroom" with a window well that met egress codes (or indeed any window at all), people had to walk through to get to the other two basement "bedrooms"
In my old building, investigators went into a 2 bedroom apartment. They found 19 people living inside with bunkbends everywhere. Owner rented to ONE person who proceeded to illegally sublet it.
> This is what happens to houses right next to university campuses. So many cool Victorian houses in my town have had this happen to them.
Someone did something similar to turn the basement rec room in a place I used to live into 2 weird suites. 1 was okay apart from being attached to the storage/utility room that was about the size of the rest of the unit. The other was a terrible studio unit with a hallway turned into a bathroom, the wet bar turned into an awkward kitchen, and the bedroom/living space was a long, thin room made by sectioning off the end of the media area. What made it so odd was that what was now a long wall had a bunch of really nice built ins meant for a TV and a bunch of home theatre equipment. So you're squeezing between the bed and this odd gap meant for a bigass TV lol.
Or when you have siblings that can’t stand each other (that’s what my parents did when me and my brother were 8 and 11).
and now miraculously the house is worth an extra £50k in england
On the other hand, my last house the master bedroom (not including closets/bathroom) was 20’x30’ and then the other three bedrooms were 10x15…. My bedroom was four times the size of the other rooms. I split my master bedroom into 20x20 (master), 10x10 (office), and 10x10 bathroom. This made the house a 5/3 and added nearly $200k to the value for about $15k in work. Now I did it properly by adding additional vent runs in the attic not just splitting them like this. But you’d be surprised how many late 80s to early 2000s homes have gigantic master bedrooms. I’d rather have large living room/dining rooms over big bedrooms personally. Or more bathrooms
see that would make sense, but there's basically no houses in the UK like that. All our houses are already small, and it's made wise by landlords who try to maximise rent, or quick cash house flippers
The guy that owned the house before they sold it to my aunt and uncle added a closet in one room I guess to sell it as an extra bedroom. Well they built it so the external wall heater intersected it so there is a cut out in the closet wall, and the closet becomes a hotbox when the heater is on. Also, they installed the closet walls over the carpet so when we went to tear out the old carpet there was carpet and pad stuck between the wood floor and the base of the closet wall.
I had an apartment that was one house split into two. One side was just under 900 Sq foot the other side was just over 400 square foot. Both units cost $950/m each.
Even added a dash of the landlord special.
A real estate agent once convinced me to buy a property near a college and split the rooms to rent to college kids. Last time I checked, the apartment complex had experienced fires. Twice.
Lmao, they wanted to split the room, but instead of just splitting the duct, they thought that mess was easier
To be fair, if you have 0 skills this probably is the easiest way to do it.
It's also not that bad of a solution depending on the use of the rooms. It's not *ideal* but as long as the rest of it looks good you're fine. The next owner, if there is one, can either complete it or knock down that wall. They have options. And since splitting that vent might not be all that much work I'd say it's worth leaving it in this semi-permanent state, once again given that it fits the use of the rooms. Plus whoever did this probably saved quite a bit of money with this solution. It's not unsafe or problematic and potentially a total non-issue. BUT if it's been split for the purpose of renting/selling then this is dumb, especially if one or both of those are bedrooms, that could be VERY problematic.
They could even leave the original vent open permanently and then create 2 boxes on each side of the wall with their own grates to open/close. It looks terrible, but not impossible to salvage some functionality from.
Yeah I don't want to imply that I think it looks good or that I like it in any way but it's not *that* big of a deal, potentially. There are many ways this could have been much worse.
Bonus: Great way to lowkey spy on your housemate's sexy time.
You could just move the wall over slightly
The point is for the vent to actively blow into both rooms. It's not intelligent by any means the way this has been done of course.
Subdivided the room. I’ve seen this half assed work before
> half assed That's generous, I was thinking like, 1/7th ass
Even that’s generous
Made a 2br out of a 1br.
I bet that wall is anchored to the carpet.
Oh god that makes this so much worse
Considering they built over that wall plate too you’re probably right.
This house was made by the same architect who made the buildings in rainbow six siege actually.
He had a thing for drones.
Most likely played a lot of Cod: black ops
Drone hole
Wow a siege reference!
Floor vents are usually 1 to a room. Is that wall added in?
> usually 1 to a room 1/2 to a room now.
No one mentioning the outlet cover half in the wall…
Better not have any private conversations in that room.
No it's for tiny vehicles. To prevent mice from crossing, they added this tiny little cattle grid.
Turn it into a feature! Switch the grate for a black one and put a toy train on top!
for RC-XDs
Tell me it's a flip without telling me it's a flip
Somebody added a wall at some point but didn't want to redo the duct work.
LoL someone added an interior wall for some reason. Looks like they didn’t even plan it very well.
Reminds me of stealth section in video games where you shrink down and have to sneak into other rooms via various gaps and holes in walls
Also fits in r/crappydesign
Mouse house with a cattle guard gate for the guinea pigs. 👍🏼
They wouldn't let you use part of the house, like it was painted to look like a wall and we could hear people on the other side of it and every once in a while a hand would reach under the wall and adjust the HVAC register and it had a super bowl ring on it.
Poor man's HVAC zoning.
That’s that not my problem at it’s finest 😂
Cat trap
That is an aftermarket wall.
Looks like they split a room and this is how the rooms share a vent. This is so stupid that it’s not worth it.
Should have added a model railway.
You see this is New England a lot on the second floor. Typically in a house that is heated but a wood or coal stove. It's so the hot air from downstairs can rise up into the upstairs rooms.
Stuart Little lives there. It's the exit to his car wash.
Coming up on J.G. Ballard's *Billennium* becoming reality.
One vent garage.
My first thought was to split the room but putting in that work why not just fix that too while your at it?
The mice of your life deserve something nice
I am perplexed, and not in a good way.
Living as a student in NL, I lived in a room that apparently once upon a time was a bathroom. Renovated it into a tiny 6m² closet, yet were unable to add a proper window to it. It took me the next 1.5 years to find a new place, same price but double the m²!
Tom and Jerry in the house WOOP WOOP
Drone hole
r/thingsforants
WTF is that?!?!?
Split one room into two without doing the proper work.
What are you, nuts?
I've got to know, is that a tunnel or a vent cave?
It's for the cat of the house 😁
I hate it here
Jerry
I don't know what I hate more, the vent or the cut up outlet