Should we combine small master bedroom with sitting room?

[Anonymous]

We are purchasing a house that has a relatively small master bedroom, in addition to a pretty good size sitting room. The sitting room is a legal bedroom with windows and two closets, has a door into the main hallway as well as another door connecting it to the master bedroom. The master bedroom also opens to the main hallway as well in addition to opening to the sitting room. I am not sure if I am explaining this well, but it's a completely functional bedroom on its own and I could see people opting to just use it as a bedroom if they needed the additional bedroom space.

The home has three other bedrooms upstairs (plus the Master and sitting room), and a home office downstairs that is also a legal bedroom with closet and window.

I am wondering if we should combine the master with the sitting room to make it a large master. We would be reducing one of the legal bedrooms, but the home has plenty anyway in my opinion. Drawbacks of this would be that we would be reducing closet space (although not by a lot) and also, the master will end up with sort of an L shape - kind of a weird layout, but not terrible. It will be pretty inexpensive for us (3k) to combine the two since we are having other structural work done at the same time and this would be an add-on.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Go for it if you want a bigger master!
Sounds like it wouldn't be hard for a buyer to undo if you sell down the line.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Meant to ask why you'd lose closet space. At the end of the L, can you add a wall of closets?

[Anonymous]

We would lose closet space because the main wall separating the two rooms (that would need to be knocked down) has a wall of closets. We could add another wall of closets at the end of the wall, yes. Good point

[Anonymous]

We bought a 6 bedroom house and I turned the teeny teeny bedroom next to master into a closet. We had enough bedrooms, and needed more closet space.

Would it be easy to turn it back if a new buyer wanted to or when it's on the market? Mine would not be, but I saw a couple that would be easy to turn back.

How long will you stay in the house? How much time do you spend in your bedroom? I've never known anyone to actually sit on a chair in the BR, that is just for clothes.