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

[Largepiecesofcrookedwood]

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?

See I think it's probably the little things like that which would tip me into murderous territory mrnirlings, rather than the bigger things like sleeping in a corridor
Neither DH or I are particularly lying in bed for hours sort of people and DS is rarely up before 10am a teenager, so I would hope that the majority of the time we would be up and out of bed before the shitting began IYSWIM?

I do see where you are coming from and everyone has their own breaking point so there will never be a universal consensus.
If you are confident about the toilet and thouroghfare issues then would there be a need for a curtain? You would have a wall on one side of the bed and a curtain along the other which sounds like you would be sleeping in a box?

handsoff, I envisioned my adult life being all about going to bed late and eating ice cream for breakfast. Instead it turns out it's all about mentally working out whether I can be out of bed before the serious toilet action starts

Have I missed something? I can only see three bedrooms on the picture.

Also, there was a similar post a few weeks ago with someone with the same issue. Unfortunately I can’t remember the title so can’t find and link it to read more suggestions!

Sorry, my post seems to just show how useless I’m being!

The plan shows 2 bedrooms and bathroom. I assume from the description given by OP the 3rd bedroom is at the front of the house off the bottom of the plan. Her DS has that room. Her question relates to the 2 rooms shown.

I would move the bathroom door to the left, make a corridor from there to the existing bathroom turn that into bedroom 3 and the bit on your plan with a bed in it and the airing cupboard into the bathroom. I would also change your boiler so you didn't need a water tank and remove the airing cupboard.

Can you move wardrobes/chest of drawers/storage etc to the spare bedroom to free up space for a sofa in the bedroom?

Yes, DS's bedroom is off the bottom of the plan and is not included in this conundrum.
double that's exactly what we would do except we rent the house. The LL is very hands off and allows us to use his house as our home, but I imagine even he would be a little shocked to discover his bathroom had moved
DS will be home from camp this afternoon so I'll check whether he has any burning objections before we go any further.

In your shoes I’d probably have the big bedroom with a cushy armchair and a study area in it, then ds in the medium room and a compact sofa bed in the walk through room - that could be Ds’s teen hangout area with gaming system or tv if he’s into that. When he’s old enough for girlfriends you may be glad that that area is less private! So he loses the big room but gains two rooms.

If you can fit a double bed you can fit a desk and chair. Many people use box rooms as studys.

I am probably missing something but how can the walk-through bedroom be big enough for a double bed but not big enough for a study? My study (albeit without a bathroom at one end of it...) is definitely not big enough to fit a double bed in but is lovely and spacious with a desk under the window and some bookcases for work-type storage. I suppose my only objection in your set up would be the probability possibility of DH going for a monster shit while I was on the phone to a client

Years ago it was quite common to have a bed recess in the living room. Can remember my gran’s cottage having one.

We could mydc and that was the original plan. However we would still be traipsing through to access the bathroom, the only difference being that the occupier of the corridor room would be awake and able to hear exactly what was going on in the bathroom
hermione the other room was DS's but it's a) smaller and he's a lanky teen with more paraphernalia than us, and
b) at the top of the stairs so all we could hear all through the house was him hooting down the microphone at his mates when they were gaming.
This thread has made me realise how wildly impractical our lovely little cottage actually is

I sympathise OP. I also have a tiny old cottage. It's the downstairs layout that frustrates us with a dining room no where near the kitchen and you have to traipse through the sitting room to get to it. I love it though we also have to be careful with furniture with low narrow doorways and low ceilings. The garden is why we bought it as it is disproportionately huge compared to the house.

finfintytint, I think it's hard to explain their charm to people who don't live in them, I certainly seem to have done a bad job selling its virtues on this thread!
And as for difficulty with furniture, there was an enormous sofa here when we moved in, much to our mystification. Turns out the only way we could get it out the house was to saw it up, apparently the original sofa owners had the window taken out

Who would be using the study Largepiecesofcrookedwood? And how often?

Hard to say how often mrbirling as we don't have one ATM if you see what I mean?
Generally DS will be in his room, and DH and I will be rattling about downstairs. The problem is if I have the radio on in the kitchen I can hear DH's tv in the sitting room.
I find it impossible to sit and read a magazine or type a letter while the tv is prattling on in the background. DH longs for a space to just sit and stare into the middle distance with no interruptions. We're all heartily fed up of the lack of storage.
However.....
All this talk of redefining rooms has set us to thinking of moving the bathroom again. DH is a plumber so would do the work himself, materials would be at trade price. I think the best option is to email our LL and see if he would be open to the idea- he's generally extremely laid back and he knows DH would do the work properly. It would increase the value of the property (the current bathroom is circa 1976) and ultimately make it truly three bedroom so I can't see what he's got not to like.
I suppose we would never have pursued this if it wasn't for this thread so thanks to all the helpful posters

Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
If you plan to be there long term and your dh can do the work - go for it