Help to redesign detached house
Hi there,
We are looking at this detached house in Surrey (UK) at 86 sq meters and would love to extend it to get more bathrooms (at least one bath + one WC), bigger master bedroom, an open plan kitchen and ideally a second reception room with bifold doors to the garden.
We have attached the original floorplan together with two potential options. Would love to hear from other users or professionals, what you would do with the space and what you believe is possible. If you have any ideas of costs, your input would be helpful.
For example, in example 1, the bathroom on the first floor has moved to a new location (currently it's conveniently located on top of the kitchen) - would this be a complicated project that would cost a lot?
We're also a bit concerned about natural light, as with the extension it would be far to a window from the centre of the ground floor.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMy initial thoughts that neither option work well in two areas. Bedroom 3 upstairs is really tiny and would be better as the bathroom and the bedroom re-built elsewhere.
The Kitchen is too small on both plans.
Do you have any drains that you can access to the right?? Otherwise it's difficult to improve on Bed 3.
Re- Plan 2 upstairs, I don't know how you're going to achieve the bathroom in that position as the soil pipe will be in the middle of the house.
The drains first and foremost dictate the build. Therefore it's imperative to know where they are.
Maybe if you could answer the above, then we can all have a little peruse on the matter.
Without all dimensions and answer about drains, I think you need to be heading more in this direction:- Therefore, this is just an 'artists impression' The master bed can still be extended a little without impinging on the roof below it which i presume will have veluxes in it.
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7 years ago Jonathan
7 years agoJust thought... if you moved the front door to the back door position you could get a better shaped living room.
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