Tips for Designing a Bonus Room

If you’re lucky enough to have bonus rooms, it’s important to get them right and make them attractive and functional. Get tips for designing a bonus room in this HGTV video:

A bonus room is basically a non-essential room that you can use as a family room, game room, office, laundry suite – whatever you like. What’s most important is that these spaces fit your family’s needs and lifestyle and that they’re well defined.

1. Assign a function to a non-essential space to accommodate your family’s needs.

2. Combine with essential rooms for more family time. A family or game room adjacent to the kitchen allows family members and guests to interact.

3. Give spare bedrooms a purpose. If you have a bedroom you don’t need, turn it into a family room or office.

4. A bonus room should be a multi-functional space that can serve as a man cave, she shed, or a private space where the kids can kick back and have fun.

5. A home office is valuable for families and buyers, especially since many people now work from home. If you need your bedroom back in the future, just pull out the office furniture and storage units.