RE Listing- Couple turn elementary school into a home

it is very unique but I think I was expecting it to look a bit more like a home and a lot less like someone put beds into classrooms

One of the schools I went to in 1980-1981 when I first came to the States has recently been turned into apartments

www.thecalvertnewport.com/

I didn’t look at the year it was built, but I would wonder how much of that floor tile is asbestos. I’ll take a hard pass on that one.

I feel like saying it's been "converted" into a home is a bit of a stretch. It mostly feels to me like people simply decided to move into an old school building "as-is". It is definitely a unique property, and I imagine someone could do something really amazing with it, but as far as using a school as a single residence, I personally think that 17,000+ sq. ft. is just too huge to ever feel homey to me. And for what, to have 13 bathrooms? I just don't have any use for that.

I've seen many schools turned into apartments and I do think that is a fantastic idea. There's always call for housing, and it's wonderful to repurpose these empty buildings.

There's a family on YouTube converting a school to a single family residence as well, and while they are most definitely doing major restorations & renovations, and I love how much they have worked to save what was already there, even with that project, it just still seems so big to me to actually live in as a single family. Although it does feel much warmer than the one linked in the OP.

Here's the YouTube one for anyone interested in skimming through it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abnyhhwzFE

My little elementary school was turned into apartments.

I watched a YouTube channel where they renovated an old school into a home. I will have to come back and add a link.

youtu.be/_abnyhhwzFE?si=egOoBELE5VVjaJ6b

Wow I love what they did with your school!  I remember seeing one where they kept the numbers from each classroom door and put them on each apartment.  There was something about the look of the hallway with those numbers that looked so charming!

For the house for sale in the op, a good architect could make some very beautiful apartments in that building. 

I love what they are doing with that place. Especially keeping some of the original brick.

My childhood friend lived in a converted elementary school in a small town--the school closed in the early 80s and the kids were bussed to school in the next town, which was much bigger. My friend's family bought the school and sort of divided it in half, with one side being their residence and the other being a grocery store for the community. It was a great live/work project!

I would love to have that much room to spare--I'd definitely put a pottery studio and shop in a room or two!! And maybe a book store, too! And how about a tea room?! I'd end up with my own shopping mall and a couple rooms to live in

That's what happened to a closed school in my area. I haven't seen what it looks like inside.

Where we used to live people turned old 1 room school buildings into homes. We also had one that became a florist shop.

The elementary school I went to had just 4 classrooms, K-3rd grade. It had a central hall that went from double doors in the front to double doors in the back. And the classrooms fed off that main hall, along with the principal's office, the restrooms, an office for the secretary, and various closets. Then the library, nurse's office, kitchen, and cafeteria/gym/music room were all in the basement.

At some point in the mid-1980s the school was sold and it was turned into 6 apartment units, I believe. It's been years since I saw it in there, but I know they left the main hall as is, but they brought the chalkboards out of the classrooms and installed them in that hallway.

I agree with everyone. It looks like people moved into an elementary school, not that they converted anything. I can totally understand that his concept was to use the bulk of it as warehousing, but the "home" parts don't look like home.