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Buying a house. Anyone want to help me with a floor plan?

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WeeDangerousSpike · 21/11/2019 18:36

We're buying our first house! So excited, got the mortgage offer this morning!

Anyway, it's a 3 bed bungalow, 2 of the beds are quite small. We are thinking of putting an extension across the back (side with kitchen and bathroom) that would be living/dining room with doors out to the garden, so the sitting room can become a bedroom and turning the 2 small beds and bathroom/loo into 1 better sized bed and a decent bathroom.

However, we really need a second loo and I would love to have a little utility area for laundry and keeping coats and boots, but that might be unrealistic.

Plumbing ideally needs to stay near where bathroom and kitchen are currently because of how the drains are. Any walls can move, none are supporting.

Floor plan is attached, anyone want to have a stab at fitting in a loo and utility?

Ta muchly Grin

Buying a house. Anyone want to help me with a floor plan?
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JoJoSM2 · 22/11/2019 12:19

I think you could keep bedroom 2 as is, knock bathroom and loo together for a better bathroom and turn bedroom 3 into a utility room with storage and a loo.

Or build a bigger extension to accommodate all the rooms you want.

WutheringTights · 22/11/2019 12:33

Take out with chimney in the current sitting room and steal some space from that for a loo/small utility. Loo wound accessible from hall with a good extractor fan (no window as no outside wall) and utility accessible kitchen next to it, with a back door to the outside.

BooksAreMyOnlyFriends · 22/11/2019 14:27

I would do a kitchen diner instead of living diner. Using skylights it would be a lovely airy space.

You could then turn the old kitchen into a living room and the mallest bedroom into a bathroom using the space through the old bathroom for access into the new kitchen diner. The utility could go at the old kitchen end of the kitchen diner space with a back door to the garden. If you steal a bit of space from the new lounge you could make an ensuite to the master bedroom. You'd end up with 3 bedrooms, one ensuite, lounge, family bathroom, kitchen diner and utility.

WeeDangerousSpike · 22/11/2019 19:11

Thanks everyone Smile

Books I think yours is the closest solution to what we want, I've been drawing ideas today and came up with something similar ish. I'll draw yours out to and maybe meld them a bit.

Does anyone think there's any point having a wc in a bungalow? I've been thinking today and I think a bathroom and an ensuite make more sense (but obviously takes up more room). A wc that's probably going to be near enough next to the bathroom seems a bit daft.

We're trying to balance the extension size with keeping a nice garden, and fitting in with the permitted development rules. And keeping a third bedroom so we don't devalue it.

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WeeDangerousSpike · 22/11/2019 19:13

*too

I'm m not illiterate, honest!

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WeeDangerousSpike · 22/11/2019 19:13

FfsHmm

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