So me and 5 others (we are 3 boys, 3 girls) have a house for next year. Unfortunately there's significant disagreement on how the rooms should be shared.
The rooms are as follows:
Room 1: Ground floor, spacious, room for double bed, well lit.
Room 2: Ground floor, okay size, room for double bed, well lit.
Room 3: 1rst floor, less than okay size, single bed room only, awkward shape, not well lit.
Room 4: 2nd floor, spacious, room for double bed, not well lit.
Room 5: 2nd floor, spacious, room for double bed, well lit.
Room 6: 2nd floor, very cramped, single bed room only, well lit.
Sitting Room: 2nd floor, very spacious, room for double bed, well lit.
As it stands, the girls all say they should have the double beds as they have boyfriend's and we are all single. One girl says she should get a ground floor room as she is still recovering from some walking impediment or other that left her on crutches. And I've suggested that I need a room that has enough room for a desk big enough to do my large scale drawings required for my coursework. The other two guys unsurprisingly seem unenthusiastic about the two smaller rooms.
While I think that one person wanting a ground floor room due to their walking difficulties is fair enough, I think everyone else (myself included) making various excuses to get a big room is a bit lame. I get that it's uncomfortable sharing a single bed with your boyfriend, but it's also uncomfortable having to live in a tiny room all year. The same goes for my large scale drawings (yes it's uncomfortable doing them on a tiny desk, but it's also uncomfortable to get stuck in the tiny room all year just because you're not on a design based course.)
I personally would be happy in any room but the tiny one, and have been trying to think of some fairer ways of sharing the rooms out.
- Get the people in the larger rooms to pay more than those in smaller rooms. Seems an obvious good decision, regardless of who ends up where, but the two girls living in cheaper accomodation than the rest of us at the moment would be bound to complain.
- Bid for the rooms. Again, complaints would be made.
- I suggested swapping the sitting room with the tiny room, making another spacious bedroom. We've all survived fine this year without a sitting room, and while everyone complained at this idea, it's very easy to complain about losing your sitting room when you know that you won't be the one who gets stuck with the **** room. If someone wants to keep the sitting room, they should volunteer for the smaller room. This idea would work best in conjunction with varied rents, to reward anyone who would take the smaller room to keep the sitting room.
Has anyone got any other ideas on how to split the rooms more fairly than everyone just whinging about why they need a big room. Am I being insensitive to those of us in relationships? How would you split the rooms?