Terraced house - reconfigure upstairs layout - advice needed!
Hannah P
5 years ago
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We are looking for advice on re configuring the layout of the upstairs in our recently purchased 1900s terraced house. The current layout is not original, as the bathroom has been added at a later stage, and a wall has been removed from bedroom three. Originally I believe there would have been 2 large bedrooms.
The current layout doesn't really work or make the best use of space available. We want to have a larger bathroom to be able to add a separate shower. We're wondering whether we could create a windowless bathroom?
Bedroom one is very large, but the other 2 bedrooms are strange sizes.
We have the added complication of chimney breasts in bedroom one and three.
Any help or advise would be much appreciated!
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Hannah P
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5 years agoJonathan
5 years agoActually someone else made a good point- you could have more than one bathroom and a compact shower room on the landing might be a great addition to the main bathroom.
PROErwin George
4 years agoHi Hannah P. I like Jonathan's option 01. If you want the bathroom a bit bigger, you can take space out of the back bedroom similar to to the space taken from the front bedroom and add it into the bathroom. Hope this helps. I have attached a photo of a bathroom designed and being built, which is about 2.6m x 2.6m, which has both a bath and shower.
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Jonathan