Anyone good at planning who can help me out with a partition idea?

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I live in a very small tarraced house with 2 bedrooms. We have to go through one of the bedrooms to get to the bathroom. I have a 20 week old baby and at some point will want him to have is own room plus it's just really annoying that visitors have to go through a room to get to the toilet/bath or if anyone stays we have to go through 'their' room to use the loo.

So... I want to partition off the room, making it smaller, and create a room for my son etc. The only way I can do this is to create a corridor and take quite a lot of space off the room.

I've added a picture of the plan I have drawn onto my profile. Is anyone willing to take a look for me?

I would just like to know if I am doing it in the best way and also if it makes sense to have the door where I've planned it. I figured that with the radiator where it is, it woud be best to put the door there so I can maximise wall spoace on the other walls for bed, wardrobe etc.

We will want to sell or rent this house out eventually and DH thinks it's a bit of a waste of time creating this space but I am really keen to do it to give our son a space of his own. I also think it will make it more sellable or rentable.

Thanks in advance

Ok, but whoever used the room with the shower room would still need to go to the other bathroom for the toilet? Or put a toilet in the shower room, would that be costly?

How big is that cupboard?

I agree with Lala's idea 'b', especially if you're going to rent it. Have an en-suite for the front bedroom in the cuboard, with a shower, basin and macerating toilet, with the pipes running through the back bedroom, boxed in.

Then you've got two rooms both with washing facilities, and you could rent it out to two professionals.

I wondered if it would be worth talking to a few letting/estate agents and seeing what they say.Around here(east mids) there are alot of houses with your lay out my freinds have bought them and it didn't put them off from buying, or being sold on, because at the moment you have two double bedrooms and with a partion you would loose that.

the upstairs one is about 1 metre by one and a half.

I don't know if it's just the drawing, but wouldn't it be a shorter corridor if you ran it along the other side of your DS' room and moved the radiator?

I'm not sure that moving radiators is all that expensive... (happy to be corrected)

You'd end up with a fireplace in the hallway, but you could block it up. As long as there are some fireplaces in the rest of the house that won't be that big a deal to most people. (compared to having to walk through second bed to the loo!)

It's not possible to do that because the only window is on the same wall as the window. Possibly my bad drawing

sorry, same wall as the radiator.

Also, you'd need a wider hallway to accomodate the chimney breast.

Another one for the pile - could you turn the bathroom and a bit of the bedroom into the bedroom, then use the remaining bit of the bedroom as a bathroom?

Or make the top of the stairs and a bit of the bedroom into a hallway/study, then the right hand side of the bedroom (opposite chimney breast) into the bathroom - windowless admittedly, then turn the bathroom into the bedroom.

I think that's all too much work really, and expensive! The Bathroom is quite large so would make a decent sized bedroom but moving all the plumbing makes it an unattractive idea.

I spoke to DH and he's not even keen to go through the hassle of turning the stairs. To be honest he's not even that keen about doing my first plan with the partition. He thinks a couple would happily rent the house but he forgets that we aren't inundated with guests but our most likely tenants would be younger people who would be.

The bedroom is quite a decent size for a small terrace so I am starting to think we should do the partition but somehow jazz up the corridor with some good lightin and mirrors so it doesn't seem too dark. I would also consider bashing through the upstairs cupboard too and putting lome kind of glass door there which would let in light from the front.

I think for the size of the house turning the stairs is too much trouble and you wouldn't really gain anything much financially or space wise.Also depending on the age of the house etc there would be structural things to deal with that would be HASSLE! The best thing to do is make the corridor as you have drawn and make it as narrow as building regs permits. Then put the door in the middle of the wall not at the end. This will give you more useable wall space. Better to spend money on as much built in storage as possible in the alcoves etc so that when the time comes to sell all you have in the room is a bed and you could prob fit a double. I have done this a lot in developments and getting rid of excess furniture in a room like drawers and chests etc frees the floor. A shelf over the bed is better than a bedside table.Also put shelves all along the top of the room for books etc

When you move the door get one with glass in to let the light into teh narrow corridor and do the same in the bathroom but frosted.

The corridor will look horrendous, and like an amateur bodge job, sorry, but it will. If you come to sell your house, the next person will just want to rip it out. Tbh, I wouldn't be spending money and messing up the house because of potential tenants and their potential guests.

Your house is your biggest investment. If you're going to do something to it, do it right. I wouldn't do anything like this without talking to a decent architect.

I don't know I have done several houses with corridors as a lot of period properties have this and if done properly with a seamless finish and matching architrave etc often no one including surveyors notice! In my last house I did a porch with recalimed brick and door etc matched all the mouldings and skirtings and the agent said so nice to see features like teh porch in tact! It had been there 8 weeks !

It's a lot of hassle for the occasional overnight guest. How about this:
Find space for a downstairs loo (good for visitors, and small children). You could extend into the space next to the kitchen and rearrange to get a bigger kitchen and loo (or even a tiny shower room).
Move into the back bedroom, so you have an ensuite bathroom.
Give your child the front bedroom.