Huonemäärät

Huonemäärät is a Finnish real estate term that refers to the number of habitable rooms in a dwelling. It describes how many rooms suitable for living the apartment or house contains, typically counting bedrooms and living spaces while excluding the kitchen, bathroom, sauna, hallways, and other utility spaces. In practice, huonemäärä is usually shown together with information about the kitchen, for example in listings as 2h+k or 3h+k, where the letters indicate the number of rooms (huoneita) and the kitchen.

In Finnish housing terminology, the huonemäärä helps classify an apartment alongside its kitchen arrangement. Common conventions include: yksiö (1h+k) for a one-room apartment with a kitchen, kaksio (2h+k) for two rooms plus a kitchen, kolmiokamm, or kolmiot (3h+k) for three rooms plus a kitchen, and so on. The same room count is often described in colloquial terms as a kolmiö or kolmio. The exact counting can vary slightly by listing platform or region, so the floor plan should be consulted for the precise layout.

What counts as a room can sometimes include spaces like a living room that also serves as a bedroom, or a separate sleeping alcove, depending on local practice and the property’s floor plan. The huonemäärä is used in price, rent, and valuation discussions, and is one of the standard data points in property listings, floor plans, and energy performance certificates.

In summary, huonemäärät quantify the living rooms in a dwelling and are typically presented together with the kitchen information to describe the overall apartment size.