Apologies that this will be a bit long but I need to explain the background!
Before we moved in to our house a previous owner converted bedroom no 2, which is adjacent to the main bedroom, into a large ensuite bathroom for the master bedroom, and a much smaller room which we have used as a nursery/study.
We have 3 boys (well and a 16 yr old daughter as well but she is irrelevant for the purposes of this question!). Our 12 year old boy has a smallish room with a cabin bed he is soon to outgrow, and our 9 year old twins currently share a larger room. We have already loft-converted!
The twins really need their own rooms now so I had the idea to make our en-suite smaller and make the bedroom bigger by moving the partition wall (by 2 feet) and removing a chimney breast. This would become one twin bedroom, then the other twin would swap with the 12 year old - he gets the bigger room he needs and both twins have smallish but functional bedrooms.
Our builder (who is lovely but can tend to be a bit negative) feels it is a lot of money to do what I propose, and that it would be much cheaper to get rid of the ensuite altogether and just make the whole space back into a large second bedroom.
My thoughts are this:
- he may be right about the cost being big to achieve small move of a wall/removal of chimney breast but we need to adapt the house to fit our needs as we can't afford to move. I like having an en-suite - it makes the mornings much more pleasant (although we do have a shower room in the loft as well as the main family bathroom so would still have two bathrooms if we lost the en-suite).
- The new en-suite would be small (only just over a metre deep although over 3 metres wide) but I think that could still work well enough.
- The resulting bedroom would be about 8'2" x 10 feet, which is quite a similar size to the room the other twin would be in - so it seems fair!
My husband on the other hand is thinking the builder may be right.
What would you do?! Thank you for reading this far!
