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Why one bedroom usually appears as two rooms

Read Dutch room counts correctly before filtering rental or sale listings.

Checked: 2026-08-22

Dutch listings normally count the living room as a room. A home described as ‘2 kamers’ therefore usually has one living room and one bedroom.

For a 1+1 home, start with one bedroom or two rooms. For a 2+1 home, start with two bedrooms or three rooms. Always confirm the floor plan and the listing text at the original source.

estate.cafe filters the current snapshot by the stated number of bedrooms, not only by the total room count.

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