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3rd bedroom reconfiguration

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Rocky1989 · 09/09/2025 10:12

Absolutely in love with this house to buy but the third bedroom that they have created as an extension on the ground floor is currently not big enough for my son.The L shape section is approx 5.2/5.3ft give or take and on the estate agents layout the french doors are not on the back but on the left hand side. We considered removing the wall to gain the porch area but then I'm not liking the idea of having to walk through a bedroom to get to the back garden.Any suggestion for reconfiguration welcome.

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rainandtrains · 09/09/2025 10:15

Block off the door from kitchen to dining room - potentially making the door from lounge to dining room wider. Add new door from kitchen to lounge. Change the kitchen window to a door to the garden, and reconfigure the kitchen to cover the current dining room door. Then you could remove the lobby in the bedroom.

Easilyforgotten · 09/09/2025 10:22

Could you swap the dining room and the bedroom round?

Iloveeverycat · 09/09/2025 10:36

Sorry but are you getting it for the price for a 2 bedroom because it isn't a 3 bed house it's just an extra room downstairs that they used as a bedroom I don't know why estate agents let people get away with it.

noctilucentcloud · 09/09/2025 11:04

Difficult to know without measurements, but could you get rid of the lobby and use the snug/bedroom as a dining room. Then use the dining room as the lounge, and the lounge as a bedroom, possibly moving the door to the shower room to that room so it becomes an en-suite? But how much I did would depend on the age of the children and how long I'd need the 3 bedrooms for.

DrPrunesqualer · 09/09/2025 12:07

Either
Make a bedroom out of part of the dining rm creating a hall entry, keeping the front window for the bedroom and creating a hall to access the stair. Then rear bedroom becomes the dining
or
Create a bedroom where the kitchen is. It would be 1.8m wide which is small but enough for a single bed. Incorporate half of the kitchen window. Then move the kitchen to the rear

Tbh
It’s not really a 3 bed though.

Blissker · 09/09/2025 12:26

I don't follow what you mean by the L shaped bit being 5 foot 3 x 5 foot 3. Could you do a diagram with the actual dimensions? Would you be prepared to sacrifice the shower? (edited)

when you say it's not big enough for him, is that literally because you can't get a bed in there at all? What is the minimum bedroom size he'd need? (a standard UK mattress is 190cm)

Rocky1989 · 09/09/2025 16:43

Easilyforgotten · 09/09/2025 10:22

Could you swap the dining room and the bedroom round?

No I think it would be too small

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Rocky1989 · 09/09/2025 16:47

Iloveeverycat · 09/09/2025 10:36

Sorry but are you getting it for the price for a 2 bedroom because it isn't a 3 bed house it's just an extra room downstairs that they used as a bedroom I don't know why estate agents let people get away with it.

No a 2 bedroom house next door alot more modern with a new kitchen and open plan dinning living room sold last year and is current estimated value is £138k, this house we are looking at is £170k+
All the houses on this street are 2 beds and the snug room are bathrooms "with" a bath and the the shower room on our plans is a utility so no I don't think it's priced fairly to be honest as the sq footage is the same also.

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Rocky1989 · 09/09/2025 16:49

Children are age 7 and 2

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Clemmie4 · 10/09/2025 05:00

If you could move the bathroom door over slightly then you could regain the work surface lost from adding a kitchen door to the garden.
along the lines of (sorry it’s rough but I can’t locate my Apple Pencil)

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MidnightScroller · 10/09/2025 05:32

Clemmie4 · 10/09/2025 05:00

If you could move the bathroom door over slightly then you could regain the work surface lost from adding a kitchen door to the garden.
along the lines of (sorry it’s rough but I can’t locate my Apple Pencil)

I was thinking swap the bedroom for part of the dining room too but this is much better and less work to achieve. Nice to keep the bedroom on the back of the house too- you could even reuse the double doors moving them from the bedroom to the kitchen to save costs again as you’d need the wall space in the bedroom and for safety/ cleanliness/ mess you wouldn’t want a door out of a child’s bedroom into the garden x

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