Renting A Living Room As A Bedroom

Renting A Living Room As A Bedroom

Genuine question...

How can someone turn a living room into a bedroom?

I mean, I understand how someone can turn a living room into a kitchen... you remove the sofa, sideboard, TV etc. and you introduce an oven, a fridge, a dishwasher... a sink.

That's turning one room into another kind of room.

But do you really mean that you had a room that was being used as a living room - and it had a door to enter and exit, it had walls, it had carpets on the floors maybe, a ceiling and some windows... then the Tenants went and moved a bed in there, thus turning it into a bedroom?

I say they can do what they want - it's their home. Unless you mean that something more structural has been done (or, indeed, the aspect of sub-letting) then I cannot see how you have any say in the matter. Secondly, if there is no sub-letting, why might you really care? Is the implication that the house is overcrowded? Maybe they thought the provision of more than one reception room "the tenants turned one of the reception rooms into a bedroom" was wasteful? Who needs more than one reception room? Bedrooms are more useful.

What you seem to be saying (but you'll correct me if I'm wrong) is that the Tenants have moved some different furniture into a room. You can't stop people from moving furniture around - even if you really, really, really like that chair being in that bay window! If this is what's happened, then you have no say at all, but - of course - they must return it to just as it was upon leaving... which your Inventory will, of course, describe nicely for everyone.

Renting A Living Room As A Bedroom

Source: https://www.landlordforumproject.co.uk/landlord-advice-help/can-tenants-turn-the-living-room-into-a-bedroom/