JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Springtime usually signals 'building time' in the housing world. Despite a decline in the housing market some families are still choosing to build custom homes. And those plans include something new, separate master bedrooms.
A growing number of couples are living together but sleeping separately.
Howard and Bev Rossman have been married for 33 years. They love each other but can't stand sleeping together. Bev has restless legs and Howard snores.
So they bought a home and tore it down to build a custom home. The plans included what they call a "snoring room".
"It takes out the tension of sleeping together, not the romance," says Bev Rossman. "So it eliminates an aspect of conflict."
Bev says in the past she would have to search for another place to sleep when her husband snored. "I would have to go to our son's room or our daughter's room in the middle of the night," says Bev. "In the morning he would wake up and go 'I'm so sorry that you had to move' but now it's great."
The National Association of Home Builders predicts by the year 2015 that 60% of custom homes could have dual master bedrooms.
In fact many couples want separate rooms, separate bathrooms and different closets. Goosey's Gabbings... Unbelievable...another crumbling block of the foundation of marriage. Some of us have to deal with snorers and the like--it's a part of marriage, earplugs and all...deal with it, people. The next step after separate bedrooms is separate houses, and I don't think anyone would be celebrating that...
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