it's often said that the home is wherethe heart is according to new insight from the royalinstitute of british architects they're also getting smaller the averagenew home in the uk is now only 92 percent to therecommended minimum size that's the easily a room is easily aspare bedroom less then you use to have if youthink about that shaving that space of each room of course we have reduced the numbers have roomsjust reduce their sizes additional research from part of housesfound that even though i houses are
getting smaller with becoming more innovative and how wecreate more space heart of house research are telling us thefifty percent of people knocking down walls to join spacestogether on the ground floor their homes think that has something reallyinteresting about how lifestyles are changing how are attitude tohome are changing the average house in the nineteentwenties measured 1,647 square feet and boosted 4 bedrooms today's equivalentis reduced in size to 925 square feet and has lost a bedroom with theaverage three bedroom house now being
the norm in the nineteen twenties oversee thebathroom toilet so it is right side home now inside the house the focus of the living room and 1920s1930s was fireplace obviously thats now change to be the television the dining room was where you socialized the kitchen was where you prepared the food now you have kitchen/diner or you have akitchen which you socialize the average three bedroom home is eightsquare meters short the recommended minimum for two-storythree-bedroom home for five residents
in lifestyle terms eight square meters is equivalent to a single bedroom ahundred years ago we were building houses with lots of cellular bedrooms up stairs and of course we hadmuch larger family units on average then you perhaps needed more rooms and now you're much more likely tohave one or two kids in your to have three four and five 36 percent of peopleare now opting for open-plan ground floor mostly because ofthe lack of space this means that the furniture they useneeds to be more multifunctional
all those things are demanding afurnitute they'd be more adaptable be demountable be so probably a more modern aestheticup slightly less heavy you could move them around all those thingsare gonna be helpful in making the most of what at these ever to creating spaces thesedays we need to be clever with our storage so for examplebeds have a lot of space underneathso you can store things and at the dining table isn't just forlarge family
meal she can change the space to use itfor study or entertaining you can usetables to extend when you've got family that coming roundor you can make them smaller for when you just want to use it as a workspace for example whatever the size of your house or spaceyou have available in your home how you style it and dress the room canmake all the difference to how functional it is our research shows that peoplereally want desirable areas in their home for example 14 percent of people want aconservatory
nine-percent of people desire walking morejobe in their home people want to make themost with their space so for example moving sofas around sothat you can accommodate more friends and family furniture which you can mix and matchand create your own unique look with different textures andmaterials these days we're using light in roomsto create a luxurious atmosphere rather than just throwing into a room we're using difference size lamps
different textures and although our homesmay be getting smaller in the future our need for multifunctional furniture inluxury home wares is set to increase these days people hadvery different rooms in there house which they wouldn't of done in twenty or thirtyyears ago for example walk-in wardrobes on suitebathroom in the next 82-100 years we need to be alot more clever about the space that we live in and thereforeuse furniture that much more multifunctionalmaking the space work for us rather than us working for the space