Room Requirements

Your house MUST include a kitchen, at least one bathroom, and a space for a bed. It makes sense to also have a space where you are going to have a tv and a couch. Some houses have separate rooms for eating, sleeping, and watching tv. Houses that have one room for eating, sleeping and watching tv are called studios. You get to choose whether or not you want separate rooms in your house.

When designing the floor plan of your house, you do need to work within some parameters. The list at the end of this page has minimum room dimensions. For minimum hallway widths, number of required doors, and door widths, please see the Fire Code section of this site.

• Full bathrooms (shower/bath, toilet, vanity) must be a minimum of 5' x 8'

• Half bathrooms (just toilet and vanity) can be smaller

• The minimum size of a bedroom is 8' x 8' (not including closet)

• Bedrooms must have a closet

• Every bedroom must have at least 1 egress window (see Fire Code section of site)

• Hallway width should be greater than or equal to 3'

• Exterior doors are greater than or equal to 3' wide

• Interior doors are greater than or equal to 2.5' wide (usually interior doors are either 2.5' or 3' wide)

• All doors are 7' tall 

• Kitchen window must be at least 3' off the ground to allow for cabinet

• Closets usually have a depth of at least  2.5' and their length varies