Troubles with snoring spouses are leading some couples to seek separate bedrooms, sparking a building trend around the United States.

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The National Sleep Foundation says 53 percent of adults report relationship problems stemming from a partner's sleep disorder, CBS News said, and now a housing survey suggests more than 60 percent of custom homes will have two master bedrooms by 2015.

Dennis Hayden, who builds homes with dual master bedrooms in St. Louis, says the separate bedrooms are increasingly being used by married people looking to sleep separate from a snoring spouse.

"Not that they're not happily married," he said. "It's that it helps them actually survive their marriage. It gives the spouses somewhere to escape to if they're snoring."

However, experts say married couples sleeping in different rooms may have trouble convincing outsiders that it is not a sign of marital troubles.

"If the individuals and a couple are not in the same bed, people are immediately suspicious that the relationship has gone awry, that there's a problem," said John Elia, a health education professor at San Francisco State University.