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To ask what I should do with this room? (with diagram)

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Cruelstepmother · 29/05/2019 15:45

We're planning to build an extension for our new kitchen so we can turn our current poky little kitchen into a shower room. If we get permission we'll add a front porch too. This leaves a rather dark room in the middle of the house, but I can't think what to use it for. It's nominally the 'dining room', but we don't 'dine', we eat off our laps by the TV and will prob eat in our new kitchen/diner once we have it. We can't knock it through into another room in any useful way, and it's too small for a snooker table. My DH and I are 65 and 57 and may eventually need to make the sitting room into our bedroom as he is disabled with a progressive condition (Parkinsons). It's about 10' by 11'. Any ideas?

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Cruelstepmother · 29/05/2019 15:46

here is the diagram

To ask what I should do with this room? (with diagram)
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TopiaryTractorTart · 29/05/2019 15:49

Marijuana plantation? Sex Dungeon?
Or perhaps a play room or a hobby room?

Lllot5 · 29/05/2019 15:49

Library! To be fair I’d say that whatever the room was like.

QOD · 29/05/2019 15:51

Floor plan doesn’t currently show for me
But why not a small bedroom ? Why not use that as your room when you have to? Just a
Bed and side tables ?
Then you keep your lounge
Or pre empt his needs and make it into a kind of dressing room now. He can shower and dress on one level. All
His clothes etc on ground floor
Just go up to bed - May keep
You in your own bedroom longer

Bokky · 29/05/2019 15:52

A separate dining room?

UCOinanOCG · 29/05/2019 15:53

Is it like a large hall with all the rooms opening off it? Or is it more contained? I can't tell.

QOD · 29/05/2019 15:53

Oh. Lol. Now I’m seeing the diagram.
What about making that the study and the study a dressing room ?
I’ve just upsized from a
Small 4 bed and I bloody loved having the box room as a dressing room.
I’m now in a much bigger house with 2 very large bedrooms. But miss my room

LouiseMiltonSpatula · 29/05/2019 15:54

Library!

HardAsSnails · 29/05/2019 15:54

It looks like it will be your main thoroughfare so i would make the most of that and create a nice big hallway, perhaps with a reading nook.

floraloctopus · 29/05/2019 15:55

I'd move the study into the ? room and then make the study on the plan into a bedroom and keep your lounge, that way the study/bedroom can have a door to the new downstairs shower room.

SweetNorthernRose · 29/05/2019 15:57

I'd have that as the study and have the current study as a bedroom as it's closer to the bathroom (assuming that room is big enough, guessing the diagram isn't to scale Grin).
Wouldn't the front porch be better leading onto the lounge?

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Cruelstepmother · 29/05/2019 15:58

Ooh yes I love the library/reading nook idea. It does actually have 4 tall bookshelves crammed with books already, but we don't sit in there to read at the moment. But we could add wingback armchairs... hmmm....

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WhereForArtThouBray · 29/05/2019 16:00

I would have the study in there and save the current study for a downstairs bedroom for when it's needed. It can be a guest room for now.

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Cruelstepmother · 29/05/2019 16:00

@floraloctopus that is a good idea although not practical at the moment, I'm not sure DH would like a bedroom everyone had to walk through to get up/down stairs but maybe we could create a hallway. It would leave the room a bit small though.

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SweetNorthernRose · 29/05/2019 16:01

Have architects designed this new layout? I personally think it could do with a bit of a rethink tbh. The flow of the rooms seems a bit strange...

AllTheFours44 · 29/05/2019 16:01

I’d make the current study a bedroom as it will have good access to the new shower room.

The study could then be placed in the ? Space. Or you could flip it around with the sitting room, making it one big open sitting/dining/kitchen.

peachgreen · 29/05/2019 16:02

I'd make it your sitting room now, given it's the first room people come to, and either convert the current sitting room to a bedroom or have it as a kind of reading / relaxing / non-TV room.

peachgreen · 29/05/2019 16:04

It is a weird layout though - do you not have any hallways?

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Cruelstepmother · 29/05/2019 16:07

UCOinanOCG the study is more like a large hallway as it contains the staircase, front door, door to ? room, door to old kitchen and door to sitting room (under the stairs).

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stucknoue · 29/05/2019 16:09

Second sitting area, means you still have a sitting room if downstairs living is essential. Could you get rid of the step down somehow?

UCOinanOCG · 29/05/2019 16:09

I think then i would make the other room the study and make what you have earmarked as a study as a storage area for shoes/coats etc with bookshelves and maybe a chair for putting on shoes etc.

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Cruelstepmother · 29/05/2019 16:10

@SweetNorthernRose it's a Victorian cottage. The bits in black are already there, but the orange bits could be reconsidered.

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UCOinanOCG · 29/05/2019 16:10

What i am thinking is that the front door area and stairs area isn't the quiet place a study ought to be (for me anyway!).

Ravingstarfish · 29/05/2019 16:13

It looks like it has front door on it so a posh entrance hall? I like the idea of a library though too

nancy75 · 29/05/2019 16:17

Where is the front door?

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