1-bed to 2-bed on a budget - help needed please!
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help with my design dilemma.
I present you with a 1-bed ground floor conversion flat that a growing family is going to grow out of very quickly!
The question is, how can we turn a 1-bed into a 2-bed on a budget? Any design ideas would be hugely appreciated! Top marks for an internal configuration.
However there's also a 14 metre long garden. Would it be worth extending? If so, I'd hugely appreciate any UK ballpark figures on how to do an extension cheaply (and safely!) in London. I've heard prices have gone up massively over recent years.
Thanks so much.
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Comments (3)I think I would move the bathroom into the bedroom- by making the corridor by the front door longer you can access it from the hall rather than through the bedroom. Put the kitchen in the reception room as this has fewer windows and therefore more wall space for units. Although this will need to also be a corridor through to the lounge I think you would also be able to fit a dining table in there. Have the back part of the flat as a reception room with either a sofa bed or a pull down bed for guests. At a later date this layout also lends itself to extension when budget allows. I would try to build on the side- I think there is room for a second bedroom where the shed is....See Moreneed help for 1970's 2 bed terrace
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Comments (7)Hi, It would be really useful to know which walls you can knock down and feel are awkward? In terms of utilising the space better are you open to considering moving the kitchen into the reception room to create an open plan kitchen living space? The reason I suggest is because adding a second bedroom will reduce the space of the bedroom as you will need to add a corridor. In addition what you have asked for in the bathroom will increase the footprint of the area. I would have suggested a bath tub/shower combined to save on space. As you want a separate bath and shower units this will take up more space, which can be done but you would have to extend the bathroom which is why I suggest moving the kitchen over to your reception room. It is really difficult to advise you in terms of costs as this is subjective to your building, structural considerations and the builder you use. I do believe you honestly need to get a professional architect involved who will carry out a survey and can advise exactly what can and can't be done in the space you have. Yes this will cost a bit of money, but you will get accurate answers than the Houzz forum! Knocking down walls and moving things around is a costly expense no matter how big the project. I always advise my clients to add 10% contingency fund just incase for those unexpected expenses :) Hope that helps Rukmini Patel Interior Design...See More
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Isla Cherry
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12 days agoAssuming there's a neighbour on top of the bedroom, assuming both layouts could get planning permission and assuming you have the budget, here are some scetches:
1. Add a 4x3.5m (give or take) bedroom to the rear, create a hallway towards it. But keep in mind the smaller bedroom needs to be 6.5m2 to officially be considered bedroom (for resale value). A 90cm hall plus 11cm wall would leave 215cm width, which is just enough for most bedframes.
2. Goodbye sunny front reception, turned you into bedroom.. Kitchen would become the master bedroom, as the front door needed that hallway. Open plan living moved towards the garden. Removed the narrow lean to to allow more daylight into the bedroom.rinked
12 days ago
PROPiur & Co interior design
12 days agoHi,
one option would be a very small side extension.
wouldn't give you anything spacious, but it might tick a lot of boxes.
Utilising the hallway to put in a galley kitchen, and turn the old kitchen into a bedroom.
If you didn't have money to extend, then you could just use the current bedroom as a living and dining area, but create a better connection with the back garden.
If the garden is quite large, creating a self-contained unit at the end of the garden could be a future project. Like kid's playroom or anything you might need.
Frank