Floor plan is bungalow with extended floor where would you put the kids ?

[Troublewaters2021]

I am absolutely rubbish at working out floor plans 😂

If this was to be you house and you had 3 kids

One secondary school aged, one primary schooled age and one baby.

My issue being is they the primary school aged child would need to be on ground floor ideally for accessible reasons. I want her to feel independent.

Teen would probably prefer being upstairs but then I’m stuck in the whole youngest not being in the same floor as us ?

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz
Yes I don’t mind where the downstairs rooms are as the lint is to make is accessible for DD,
My issues is I can’t find a full bungalow with all bedrooms in one floor with the same room capacity 😂🙈
I’m rather stressed.
My house is just not suitable and not really able to extend or modify.

I’d put the teen upstairs and have the office upstairs

Can’t your utility room double up as a medication hand washing area?

Example is this
One of the others we looked in to
It seems it will be too small as we would need to use dining room

Similar areas but the first one is a lot cheaper than this one
So seems good value for money.

I like the layout

DD is downstairs in the room which is the most suitable for her needs. The other downstairs rooms are for you and baby. Teen is upstairs. The other room upstairs is used for whatever you fancy (storage, office, playroom for baby). Then baby is moving upstairs when older.

Do you need a separate room for DD’s carers or do they stay in her room?

I like the original layout posted. The second seems squished

Ok.

The main bathroom. Split it up so it's a WC and handbasin for everyone to use.

The rest becomes part of the office to make it bigger and is DDs room. If need be and it's a partition wall you could also take some room from the bedroom next door.

So baby has a small room on the ground floor until old enough to go upstairs in the distant future.

How old is the teen? Could he sleep in an outhouse if you added an en-suite?

I would also give downstairs with en-suite to teen.

Office, bedroom and bathroom for ds and carers etc.

You and baby upstairs.

Then also have an outhouse space for your teen which they can use to socialise with friends. Then if they have friends over later in the night or wants a sleepover they won't disturb your dd.

I agree medical equipment etc is best on hand - you won't want to be traipsing outside for supplies in wind rain and ice cold weather!

could the medication be in a lockable kitchen cupboard

@Porridgeoat and due to a slight location difference which doesn’t really effect us the first us 200k cheaper.

That’s a lot cheaper!

@TimeIhadaNameChange I considered that and I’m pretty sure he would jump at it but I’m not sure if he is too young at 14.

I would use the reception room as another bedroom, and turn an upstairs bedroom into a tv/snug room. In time you can rearrange who sleeps where as the baby gets older

Would you consider developing the property a little?

How much of the space for DD needs is space vs washing/sanitation?
In other words can the equipment share space with something else (or even be in her room/a cupboard) and the hand washing in a bathroom?

This is the our area that Ds would have available does that seem a good comprise to be downstairs ?

I think 14 is old enough for the summer house if he is mature, safe area and he wants to.

I would do yourself and baby on top floor. You're teen in the ensuite downstairs (sell it to them that they get an ensuite, massive plus as a teen), and primary school child downstairs with office as medical room. That would make the most sense to me.

I personally wouldn't mind having baby/small child upstairs and me downstairs but not the other way round, so I would do teen and baby upstairs and have the downstairs ensuite myself with baby monitor.

I think it looks ideal for your family.

Presumably you are up in the night with DD when you don't have carers there so it could be handy for you to be opposite her room?

If baby is up a lot in the night then I'd put the teen downstairs with ensuite until baby is sleeping through or at least not waking often. Teen might enjoy having the ensuite anyway.

I think your teenager will have to lump it and be downstairs so it’s him in the ensuite room, your daughter with the other downstairs bedroom and adjacent office room for storage, you and baby upstairs. You could use the dining room as a bedroom but not sure what that would solve really. You need a room by the baby really (and I’m sure your teen son won’t want it to be him and the baby upstairs, plus you’d be up and down all night) and your daughter has to be downstairs, so unless your daughter has the dining room, you have the ensuite and baby in the room opposite, giving teenage son all of upstairs... which isn’t on.

Could you and the baby have the office and adjacent room, your daughter have the ensuite, dining room for medical storage Ana with sofa bed? If there’s space you could put a conservatory on the back to make a dining space?

@Troublewaters2021

This is the our area that Ds would have available does that seem a good comprise to be downstairs ?

Bloody hell. Can I have it? I urgently need a room for my business 😂

@CluelessHamster yeh we have carers for 3 nights out of 7 as that’s affordable. So the other 4 nights I do the cares.
The house size and the bedroom downstairs for DD is perfect also access to kitchen from living room for her. I want her to always feel accessible to her family.

If your teen is sensible, I'd say put him in the outhouse - that would have been my DREAM as a teenager. Not to get up to anything untoward, just an amazing bit of independence and space to myself during GCSEs etc - might be good if there are people moving around overnight with night carers etc too for him?