I want to add add another bedroom to my 2 bedroom basement flat.
My flat is large by london standards (1020 sqft / 94.7 sqm), but it has only 2 bedrooms, whilst it has a massive kitchen and living room. I would like to halve my kitchen and create another bedroom with the other space. However, I'm not sure what the best approach is.
This is the current layout.
This is a plan of pushing the kitchen back to the edge.
This is an alternative plan that places the kitchen in the middle, closer to the hall.
Both ideas will need to have either a door or wider space knocked out from a supporting wall.
I've also considered moving the kitchen and living areas to replace bedroom 1 and 2, and knocking the wall out between them, because it would be nice to link the egress onto the terrace from an open plan living area, but I haven't been able to come up with a way to do this so I can combine a kitchen with this space, and certainly not so that I end up with 3 bedrooms at the end.
Any advice on this would be super helpful. I'm not convinced either ideas will be great - having a bedroom open into a living room isn't ideal, but having a galley kitchen open into a living room kind of messes with how that living space can be utilised well.
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pauldrowan
11 months agoI like your first idea. It would be good to have the living spaces off the terrace but it will be a lot of structural work and would also put the living spaces to what I imagine is the darkest space of the property. Consider sharing the footprint for bed 3/ kitchen. You could build the bed on a deck comprising of storage opening into the bedroom on one side and kitchen on the other. (I’ve tried sketching what I mean) You could even incorporate a slide out dining table/breakfast bar that would store away under the bed deck. There are lots of case studies on Houzz of tiny flats that utilise great space saving ideas that I think could help you unlock the 3rd bedroom successfully in your much larger space. Good luck
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11 months agoIf you could incorporate the hall cupboards into a middle placed u shaped kitchen (I’m assuming meters and boiler etc are not housed in these… ) then you could create a corridor down to bedroom three without cutting into the load bearing walls….
if you block the entrance to the living room from the inner lobby you could have a cloaks cupboard here or steal some space from bedroom 2.
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11 months agoChris Tomlinson
10 months agoThanks for all your suggestions! They are very helpful.
Regarding:"I've also considered moving the kitchen and living areas to replace bedroom 1 and 2, and knocking the wall out between them, because it would be nice to link the egress onto the terrace from an open plan living area, but I haven't been able to come up with a way to do this so I can combine a kitchen with this space, and certainly not so that I end up with 3 bedrooms at the end."
I think I may have almost nailed it. This will be the most expensive option, given two load bearing walls will need to be removed and requiring beams, but overall the best, however I'm still not happy with how the entrances could work into bedrooms 1 and 2. Any suggestions?
Chris Tomlinson
10 months ago
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