Small cottage and badly laid out rooms- would you do this

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And more importantly, will we regret it?!
Our cottage is lovely, quirky, but actually a series of bastard shaped rooms that look big enough, yet demand degree level engineering skills to make decent use of them
It was marketed as 3 bedrs but is essentially two, the third you need to walk through to reach the bathroom.
Space is limited and, though there are only 3 of us, it's easy to find yourself with no personal space.
Today's brainwave (whilst worshipping to my God) is that we move our bed to the spare room, put some sort of pole and curtain across to give us a modicum or privacy, then turn our bedroom into a sort of den cum study.
DH is broadly speaking on board with this, but it seems a huge decision if it turns out we hate it.
Will I hate the idea of DS trampling past us to the bathroom? Will I soon get bored of having to clamber across the bed to get to sleep (bed would be with "my" side against the wall) Or is this inspired interior design genius?

Why not make the spare room the study?

I'd make the room with the bathroom off it the study.

Have you got a floor plan ?

Surely it woupd make mpre sense for the room you have to walk through to be the study?

Have you got a floor plan? Ideally the end room would be the bedroom and you walk through a communal room to get there.

That was he original plan, but bizarrely it's just not big enough- today's fact finding mission was to pinpoint furniture that would fit.
The spare room is big enough to fit a double bed and nothing else, but would leave a decent walkway to the bathroom.

Why is it a huge decision if you hate it? Why not trial it for a bit?

Ooh, more replies by the time mine posted
The property is rented, if we owned we would convert the spare room to a smaller bathroom (with a proper wall rather than a curtain!) and turn the old bathroom into the bedroom.
My thinking is we literally only sleep in our bedroom While we're actually in bed for more hours than we would be in the study/den, those hours are spent asleep where we could technically be anywhere. I (currently) feel that the increase in our quality of life with an extra living space would far outweigh the downsides of technically sleeping in a corridor.

Hopeful bump

Everyone is waiting for a floorplan...

I think we need a diagram

So there are three bedrooms, one of which has the bathroom off it?

Which is the room which isn't big enough? The one with the bathroom or not?

How old is your child? How often do you have guests? Is there a downstairs toilet? How long do you plan to stay?

Rather shoddy floor plan attached!
AC is airing cupboard, the hatches area is where the bed would go in my theoretical world.
To answer giraffe,
The 3rd bedroom has the bathroom off it and is also useless for anything much as it needs a constant walkway through. DS(14) has the biggest room at the front of the house as he spends more time in his room than we do.
DM comes and stays about twice a year, for a couple nights at a time. Apart from that we have no other guests
No downstairs toilet.
We will stay here as long as we can, what the house lacks in useful features the local area makes up for in other ways

overagain we've considered it. However the cottage is so weirdly set up that we would need to take all the furniture apart to get it round the bends, then reassemble it in place again- totally doable but an enormous hassle nonetheless.

How would your ds feel about traipsing past you every time he wants a wee (or whatever teenaged boys get up to in the privacy of the bathroom).

I wouldn't.
The room doesn't look big so putting up a curtain for 'privacy' could be really claustrophobic.
I also think it's not fair on DS to have to go through your room. Does he never have any friends over?

Also imagine if you were unwell and were in bed for a day or more. You would become very familiar with the toilet habits of you dh and ds...

I would concentrate on being really creative with the layout of the study (there are other furniture retailers other than Ikea)

What do you need in the spare room?
Would rehanging the door to open outwards onto the landing help?

I'm sure the creative minds on here could make useful suggestions

I don't imagine he'd be too bothered probably, he will often pop in the bedroom for a chat if we're in bed, and we would be behind our curtain in any case.
As far as anything else goes, currently his bed is against the same wall as our headboard so anything other than a chaste peck on the cheek is done while he's out the house

There's quite a difference between popping in for a chat and walking past you to sit down for a dump 10 feet away!

Second rehanging the door if that would help. What are the dimensions of the spare room?

If you are renting why not move to a house that suits you better?

I feel awful saying this mrbirling but we all seem quite well acquainted with each other's toilet habits (such is the joy of a small house )
The thing is you could say the same about using the room as a study/den, only I'd be far more likely to be awake and aware of what was happening.
And for the sickness question, we have a sofa bed downstairs that I had intended to haul upstairs to the study. Thereby converting our downstairs into an oasis of calm with winged armchairs and a roaring fire

I'm actually in bed so won't be measuring tonight. However roughly,
The spare room will just about fit a double bed in the space I marked, and the walkway is the doors width wide.
What is currently our bedroom is about 12ftx10ft, but set up in such a way that the bed can only go in one place and I have to shimmy around the door to get to my side.
Our corner sofa will fit nicely in there, freeing up a ton of floor space. We need clothes storage in there, as well as storage in general which there would be plenty of room for.

unexpecteditem we love the area and would hate to move (though logically moving would be better) We also have dogs which limits our choice of rental properties somewhat. I'm of the opinion that no house is perfect, though admittedly ours is a lot less perfect than is ideal

I have a smaller version of your cottage as it's 2 bedrooms upstairs - one with the bathroom opening off.
So I like you I am very familiar with my dd's toilet habits
But although we lack a 3rd bedroom we do have a downstairs loo and it makes all the difference!
At 14 she now chooses toilet privacy (at times!).
It also means I can ban her or anyone from passing through my personal space!

I can't imagine having the only toilet in the house through my bedroom.

But each to their own.

Nor would I cope not being able to get in and out on my side of the bed.