Current niggles are:
- Entrance area tiny- prev owners built a tiny conservatory round the back to use as a large porch if you come in and out through back door rather than front. We're prob going to build a proper front porch instead but...
- Conservatory is too small to be a useable room beyond a tiny bistro table and chairs or similar. When we build a proper porch the conservatory is going to seem like a bit of an odd not very useful space - beyond dumping ground for laundry, cat litter etc.
- Dining room is dark- thinking of knocking another window in the side wall.
- Bathroom is downstairs. Doesn't bother us too much and estate agent has said no reason to bother moving it unless we want to. Our area is unbelievably popular, and some buyers will like the extra bedroom that it gives. The reason the bathroom annoys me is that it eats up a prime back of the house view of the garden chunk of house.
- Bathroom extension is built around old back toilet so what looks like a shower cubicle on floor plan is actually a boiler and washing machine cupboard. Fine, except it has 9 inch thick walls which eat up a chunk of floor space. They're supporting...
- Middle bedroom is not really a true bedroom as rear one is accessed off it but stud wall could easily be put up to remedy this.
- Kitchen is big enough but door positioning- bathroom and dining room- means a few funny sized curved cupboards and work tops.
We could knock out the annoying wall in bathroom and move the kitchen doors a bit to gain a nice big square downstairs bathroom and some straighter lines in kitchen. But it's a huge amount of upheaval for fairly minimal gain. The big win would be to move bathroom upstairs and open up back of house a bit. I'm thinking:
- Knock all the back walls out and extend kitchen out into current bathroom space with windows in back wall out to garden
- Replace conservatory with proper extension and knock out the wall between that and current kitchen to create new dining area with wall of windows and french doors out to garden.
- Use current dining room as informal sitting area.
Downside is that we then only have two bedrooms and due to staircase being in the centre of house a loft conversion seems to involve carving up the upstairs in ways I'm not too happy about...
Ideas? Suggestions? All gratefully received!