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changing house layout , advice appreciated , plan attached !!

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kitty4paws · 09/09/2019 21:06

HI

Thinking of changing layout of bungalow.
Sitting room would be moved to another room.

Want to form a sort of self contained "flat" for my daughter and her boyfriend

what do you think ??

Thanks

changing house layout , advice appreciated , plan attached !!
changing house layout , advice appreciated , plan attached !!
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kitty4paws · 09/09/2019 21:15

bugger, posted same plan twice, Ill try again

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kitty4paws · 09/09/2019 21:17

Oh for the love of god !

trying again

changing house layout , advice appreciated , plan attached !!
changing house layout , advice appreciated , plan attached !!
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VeThings · 09/09/2019 21:21

Where’s the kitchens for you and your DD?

kitty4paws · 09/09/2019 21:34

I have a kitchen in the rest of the house. I was thinking of a small "kitchenetre" for her ,( microwave, sink, induction hob) and she can use the main kitchen for the oven when needed.

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kitty4paws · 09/09/2019 21:54

This only shows part of the house, there are other bedrooms, sott8ng room and a kitchen

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kitty4paws · 10/09/2019 09:02

Hopeful bump

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parietal · 10/09/2019 09:17

is the one with more rooms the plan for what you want to do?

there seem to be 2 bathrooms at the top but how do people get into them and why are they both linked to the same room?

It looks like quite a complicated way to carve up the house & I'd worry that you'd reduce the value when you come to sell. Do you have to retain the little bedroom at the bottom or could you just give DD all the space on the plan to keep things simple?

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 10/09/2019 09:19

I'd second talking to a valuation expert and seeing what it would do to the value of your house, it looks like it'd make it quite unconventional which may make it more difficult to sell.

It's a lovely idea though!

VanGoghsDog · 10/09/2019 10:08

A bit impossible without seeing the full property to gauge the usefulness.

It's also hard to see where the doors are - currently every room except the en suite has a door into it from the rest of the house? Really, you're adding a small kitchen and giving them the bathroom while removing the en suite to make a bigger living and bedroom area?

But they can't walk from their living room to the bedroom, they have to go into the main house and back through the bedroom door? Why not put a door between the two and block off the door from the bedroom to the main house?

It must be a huge bungalow.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 10/09/2019 10:31

Where is the rest of the house? Is the bedroom at the bottom of the diagram at the corner of the house? To me it seems strange having their bedsit in the middle like that. I'd give them the bottom section with a bathroom somewhere in their bit, and you keep a bedroom next to the bathroom at the top.

Atalune · 10/09/2019 10:34

Really hard to comment without seeing where the kitchen is?

I agree about the resale value and getting some good advice first.

BooksAreMyOnlyFriends · 10/09/2019 10:53

Sounds like a lovely idea. To avoid doing all this to the house do you gave a big enough garden to build accommodation? On kirsty and Phil 'love it or list it' one family did a fab one for an elderly parent. Just a thought!

kitty4paws · 10/09/2019 13:53

Hi thanks for the posts

I'm not worried atm about resale, I'd only be putting through a door way through one solid wall. All the rest are stud walls.

The more complex plan is the proposed layout.
So daughter would come in front door and enter her bit through the door that is already onto the bedroom.

On entry there would be an ensuite to the right and to the left a large gap in the current stud wall to the "bedroom" area.

The bedroom area of the new bit would be separated from the original sitting room by the addition of a new stud wall.

This would also block in the stairs.

So in my daughter's bit her bedroom area would also have the under stairs ",bit"

There is a door into the bathroom. That would be blocked off. A new entrance to the bathroom would be via the old cupboard.(with the fuse box I it )

Hope that makes sense.

So atm.there are 4 doors off the hall way, sitting room, bedroom bathroom and cupboard.

Shown in dark green

After there would be 3 doors

One to the new small bedroom and the stairs to the loft.
One to the original bedroom / new bit.

One to the smaller bathroom, via the old cupboard.

And one would be sealed up.

The rest of the house is quite an odd layout, not suitable for /affordable for any type of conversion.

I need to keep costs to a minimum so though keeping l the plumbing as close to.the current bathroom as possible was the best option.

Also the current bathroom is more than big enough, a but if a waste if space really.

Hope that makes things cleaere

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