Help me with my bathroom / kitchen layout please!
Hi everyone,
We’re planning a full renovation of our small, two-storey, three-bedroom end-of-terrace house and would love some help with floorplan ideas! She's tiny but she has so much potential and I've lost so many brain cells trying to come up with the best solution, so would love to hear your thoughts.
We’re knocking down the existing kitchen lean-to and replacing it with a new rear extension (around 20 -25 sqm) that opens onto the garden. Our main priorities for the ground floor layout are:
- A separate cosy living space at the front of the house
- A full bathroom downstairs, we'd love a bath but happy if only a large shower works here (we want to keep all three bedrooms upstairs, with the possibility of adding a small ensuite to the main bedroom in the future)
- A dedicated laundry area (we don’t want the washing machine in the kitchen, thinking possibly under the stairs could work?)
- We rarely use a dining table, so we’re happy to just have an island as our eating space, and utilise the back extension that opens onto the garden as a kitchen / small living space
- Ideally, the downstairs bathroom would have a window for natural light and ventilation!
One idea we’ve considered is flipping the stairs so that there’s direct access from the downstairs bathroom to the upstairs bedrooms, without having to go through the front living room and hallway. This however is likely to be expensive...Has anyone done something similar, or do you think this could work?
The exterior wall on the stair side is the end-of-terrace wall (so we could add a window along here), while the opposite side is a joined party wall.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on the best way to configure the space! I'm not sure if I'm trying to hard to get everything we want in the list, or if there really is a way to make it work? Thanks so much for any insight you can provide!!
EXISTING -
The kitchen/breakfast room is a previous extension that needs to be removed. The blue dashed line is the proposed scale of the new extension.
Sketch 1 -
Adding a small bathroom and small laundry where the existing WC/Shower Room is. I don't love how central the access is for the bathroom to the living spaces, however there is potential to put a window in the bathroom here.
Sketch 2 -
Flipping the stair, adding an external side door. The access to the bathroom feels more private but it's using up a lot of space and not sure if a window would be possible here (possibly a skylight?).
Thanks in advance!
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