1-bed to 2-bed on a budget - help needed please!
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Comments (11)http://www.farrow-ball.com/lamp-room-gray/colours//fcp-product/100088 My suggestion would be bright gloss white kitchen furniture and trims (skirting, architrave etc.) .... with black internal doors and lamp room Gray walls. Crisp white bed linen - grey tweed throw on bed - Gloss white bedroom furniture . Small Dining table for four ( that could double up as a desk ) and a grey tweed sofa and footstool - keep it simple - as cosy throws that can be machine washed. Black walnut flooring .... Maybe a pop of colour by using bright cushions to suit the season - cool blue in summer , autumnal burnt orange in autumn, festive red in winter, bright green in spring etc etc !?! .... Just an idea !?!?...See Moreneed help for 1970's 2 bed terrace
Comments (5)no floor plan or house details available at moment other than photo above which shows the area narrowing into dining area and kitchen to top left of picture - hope that is of some limited help! we have had our offer accepted but beginning to worry about limitations of space!...See MoreRoom configuration 2 bed flat into 3 bed flat
Comments (16)I agree with Jonathan, you probably aren't going to get everything you want. My plan leaving the shower room and swapping the kitchen and bathroom is good. It leaves you a good sized bathroom for three beds, and a separate shower room. We all prefer our own plans and I like mine because i've used every inch possible. Plus, I only knocked down one small wall down between kitchen and living and put one wall up to make two bedrooms at the front. The master gets a nice big window with a private patio....nice feature. It also utilises the side entrance as a pantry gaining space in the kitchen. However, as Jonathan says either of the plans with no extension will leave an undersized living / kitchen / dining area. Thus an extension is necessary, but even that's pushing it. The budget just isn't going to stretch to all of the work in one go. I'm guessing you can just about do all the internals, which requires a new kitchen and bathroom, neither of which you could go mad on. Some of the rooms need better windows as you pointed out. It would still leave the undersized space at the rear, which would require an extension at some point, but the bulk of the work would be done. Either way, it's a very tight budget, it's an old house, and stuff crops up in those all the time that you don't expect. A healthy budget to achieve all, including the extension............with a contingency included for small disasters should be £60-80K...See MoreConverting 2 bed terrace house to 3 bed or 2 one bed flat.
Comments (11)I can see potential for a 3-bed by turning the downstairs reception room into a bedroom but I don’t think you’d fit a third bedroom upstairs. You could consider turning the downstairs shower room, or part of it, into a utility / laundry space. Changing to 2 separate flats could be problematic in terms of access to the first floor one - presume you’d need a shared entrance which would make accessing the ground floor front reception room more difficult. Also, I don’t know if you’d need any special permissions, plus extra fire / safety regs to turn a house into 2 flats. It seems to be potentially a lot more hassle to take that option....See More- 3 months ago
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