Loft Conversion - Ensuite or stand alone bathroom?

[Irritatedmama]

We are starting to plan for converting our loft later this year.
We have quite a big space and want to maximise it.

I would like to create a bathroom that can be accessed independently from the bedroom. DH would prefer an en-suite. I think a stand alone bathroom would be more useful and add more value should we ever come to sell. Plus it can be used by our children or guests etc without them needing to come into our room.

Any thoughts?

Also, I want to create a walk in wardrobe along the eves. I think this would be great and will provide storage plus hide lots of clutter. DH thinks a bigger bedroom is better. But we don't need room for anything except a bed surely if we go for a walk in wardrobe?

[BagelGoesWalking]

We did a loft conversion 10 years ago.

Best decision ever was to make the bathroom separate from the bedroom. Walk up stairs, bathroom to the left, door to bedroom straight ahead. Extra toilet/shower whenever needed, esp at high use times on the mornings. Kids and visitors can use without coming into our room, thank god! Slightly further away from bed so noise/smells minimised. Also, but very importantly, two doors in the bedroom (one bedroom door, one to an en-suite) just takes up room which could be utilised for other things.

If we'd had an en suite, the extra door would have taken room on that wall and we wouldn't have had space for triple IKEA wardrobe which holds all clothes.

I wish we had made storage under eaves all the way along. We just have small corner under wave cupboard which is big but would have preferred all along the wall.

Good luck!