Advice on floor plan - how to create a 3rd bedroom?

3 years ago

Hi,

We're thinking of putting an offer on a house which was originally a 1 bed cottage but has been extended on the ground floor (to the side of the lounge) to create a large dining room, extra bedroom and bathroom. We like the location and character of the house and it has a good footprint compared with other places we have seen for our budget but the floorplan needs rejigging. Most importantly, we need to create a 3rd bedroom as we have 2 children but the extension has also created a windowless lounge which is a bit dark so we wonder how we could get more light into the plan? The extension part has a flat roof and a few little skylights over the dining room but bigger ones would be better! Our initial thought was to move the kitchen into the dining room and turn the old kitchen into the master bedroom with ensuite. Any advice as to how feasible this would be or other suggestions for what could be done with the floorplan would be much appreciated!

Many thanks!

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Steph
3 years ago
Do you have the budget to extend? The most obvious solution would be extend over the dining room without having to compromise the ground floor plan. Changing the kitchen/utility to a bedroom/Ensuite would be good, open up the wall between the lounge and dining room and make one large kitchen/dining/ lounge room. You would need to know where the drainage is located before moving the kitchen. I provide architectural design services for internal remodelling and extensions if you need further help info@41interiors.com
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Room-by-Room (UK) Ltd
3 years ago
Hi Emily,

Could you provide some photographs of the rear and front elevations so that we can see the current roof please?
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As I say, I can't reconcile the dimensions. There appears to be a 2ft ( roughly ) discrepancy across the width of the house. ie, if the kitchen is 22ft long, then I can't make the lounge, Hallway and study fit in to that measurement. The lounge and study add up to 19ft, which would leave 3ft for the Hallway and staircase, so that wouldn't work, and something is amiss. Also, the study is down as 1.45m which isn't 7'10".......I had to make it a rough guide! So, this is what i'd go for as a plan b, following the initial amendment upstairs.................If you did the extension.............it would look roughly like this:- I managed to fix the dimensions, so later i'll put them back on Plan A x
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3 years ago
Hi Emily,

If the Dining Room becomes a Kitchen / diner, then please bear in mind that access to bed 2 and Bathroom will be via the Kitchen, which is far from ideal. How about moving the Kitchen into your dark Lounge (drainage permitting), re-configure the dog leg shape staircase so that it is straight, open up your structural wall between your Lounge and your Dinning room, and make Bed 2 accessible from the Hallway (extend the partition wall with a fixed glass partition to maximize your lighting to cover the area in front of what looks like patio doors right next to your entrance). I hope it all makes sense, but external pictures would help. The Bathroom access via your Dining Room is also not ideal - overall, a difficult one to put right...Irina
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The Kitchen Lady UK
3 years ago
I have another suggestion, how about turning the dark sitting room into a bedroom as bedrooms don't need as much light as the sitting room and kitchen.
then if you change the stairs to be straight and accessed from the dining room, or wiggled the walls so you can get down the stairs without going in the bedroom, I think you'd get your three bedrooms without huge cost as you're not moving the bedrooms.

However, perhaps a big picture job would be to swap the kitchen and bed 2 so you get the day wing and the night wing of the house.

Emily x
Emily Hazzard
3 years ago
Hi

Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply. Definitely food for thought! I've not got photos of the roof at the moment but we are going for a second viewing on Saturday so I'll take some then. In the meantime I've attached some of the pictures from the listing. Our favourite parts of the house are the original bits - the kitchen and lounge so I think opening up between the kitchen and lounge to create a kitchen/diner living space as Steph initially suggested would be good if its possible to remove the wall?! I think there would then be space for the dining room to be divided to provide a hall with perhaps utility storage adjacent to the bathroom and the extra bedroom we need. I've had a play around with the existing floorplan and come up with this - any comments (glaring obvious things I've missed!) would be so helpful. Once again, thanks!!

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Eulinea Ltd
3 years ago
Hi Emily,

When you are coming downstairs to use the toilet, you have to cross the Living Room /Dining Room /Kitchen before you get to the Hallway; also, this means Bed 3 is somehow an 'extension' of the open plan downstairs, and you've lost your Utility Room!

Advice on floor plan - how to create a 3rd bedroom?

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