How to improve this layouts.... help.

3 years ago

seriously considering making an offer on this property but the upstairs layout isn’t great & its classed as a 4 bed house ;-(

The only ideas I have are as follows but can anyone else help with a better idea / layout?

The only changes we are thinking of doing downstairs is to create a utility room and downstairs WC or wet room (8ft x 7ft) and then have kitchen diner into the the current family room and instal bifold doors on the left hand side of the room. - this would be down immediately whereas the upstairs would be in a couple of years as when my kids get older and they don’t want to no longer share a room (they are currently 6&5years old).

Upstairs options.

Option 1 - Down grade it into a 3 bedroom house by knocking through bed 2 &3 and putting an en suite for the room by the front of the house (near the stairs and window).

Option 2- move the drainage slightly (currently positioned in between the conservatory and the kitchen) further up the garden and doing a small side return in order to build a new family bathroom upstairs. The old bathroom would be removed to create access to new bedroom above the family room and the old bedroom 3 could then be a better shape bedroom.

I know option 2 is more expensive but I can’t see any other way to improve the layout upstairs. Creating a bedroom above the garage then bring about access problems to that bedroom.

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Malcome A
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3 years ago
Or this option of just building on top of the current family room to create two more bedrooms upstairs. Making the bathroom bigger and adding an en-suite to the bed at the front of the house.
Anna
3 years ago
Depending on the strength of foundations on the garage, I’d be inclined to add a bedroom by extending over that. I think it’d be cheaper than extending out the back, but more importantly, if you’d like that family room to be light and bright all the way back to the kitchen area, I’d recommend putting in a couple of sky lights, which you can’t do if you extend over it. You’d end up with 3 double bedrooms and an en-suite. However, this doesn’t solve the unusual shape of bedroom four, if that’s a problem for you.
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Jonathan
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What I would do
Anna
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I like that Jonathan - alleviates the potential darkness at the back of the long kitchen/family room I was talking about.
Malcome A
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3 years ago
Thank you guys (Anna & Jonathan). We are going around there later today with a builder. If he gives the thumbs up (depending on cost to changes - might have to do downstairs first and then upstairs conversation in a couple of years). We will definitely make an offer valuing it as 3 bedroom property rather than their valuation as a four bed.

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