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What do we do? Any help welcome

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:30

I've attached a pic of the current layout of our bedrooms. We need another room but no way of extending at the minute so our only option is to think about dividing the large room? Can anyone give me some ideas how best to do it? We'd use stud wall that we can remove again but am a bit stuck with how divide it. Only option I can see is to put a wall down the middle and that would cut the window in half?
Thanks in advance

What do we do? Any help welcome
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WhatsGoingOnEh · 04/08/2017 22:34

Is it expensive to have the big window replaced with two separate, smaller windows? That would still look ok after you removed the stud wall, hopefully?

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:34

We'll need to have one room with double bed in it and the other 2 with single beds plus wardrobe drawers if space allows

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:35

Not thought about that.. I could find out. Window needs replacing anyway as it's old. Would a wall down the middle work do you think? Size wise?

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Humm1ngb1rd · 04/08/2017 22:38

Not sure about the sizes but can you create a room between the two bedrooms? Do you still have a hot water tank in the cupboard - if not you could include this; you'd need to take the wall between 1&2 out; Move the door down a bit for bedroom 2 and put a stud across there, then put the other stud into bedroom 1 making a small extra room. Can you put a window in the side?

LinaBo · 04/08/2017 22:39

Room dimensions?

Refilona · 04/08/2017 22:40

Can you not do a loft conversion?

Humm1ngb1rd · 04/08/2017 22:40

On the split window idea we did that recently - switched one window to two windows with a plastic bit inbetween which a stud wall was built up to

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:52

I'll find out the dimensions tomorrow.. no to
a loft conversion or anything too expensive. We really need something that will work but be as cheap as possible
Obviously the windows will cost a bit but if that's the only real option I guess that's what we'd do

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:53

We do still use the hot water tank

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:54

Humm.. do you have a picture of what you did?

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Puffpaw · 04/08/2017 22:55

How will you access the two bedrooms there is only room for one door?

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:56

We are semi detached so no way to put a window on the left side

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walkalongjosie · 04/08/2017 22:57

Puffpaw.. no idea? Am completely stuck so that's why I'm asking for help/ideas

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Izzyislington · 04/08/2017 23:22

If you're one half of a semi detached pair, and that's the window at the front, I'm not sure that you'd get permission to completely alter the front elevation and replace it with two smaller windows. Suspect it would look awful anyway, and affect resale value.
Could you not use a less permanent solution? e.g. these:
www.diy.com/departments/karalis-room-divider/1012710_BQ.prd
If you google "room dividers" there are all sorts of quirky ideas.
Or if the rooms are for children, can't they just share? My sister is a single mother of four - she sleeps in the smaller bedroom and the four kids have two sets of bunks in the master bedroom - not ideal, but in general it all works out very well. I do accept this wouldn't work for every family situation, but in general people are

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walkalongjosie · 05/08/2017 14:43

Considering sleeping in the living room so kids can have a room each. Big age gap and eldest wants space of his own but no room downstairs to make him a den or anything so his room would be his only place to escape the toddler!!

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Puffpaw · 05/08/2017 15:46

You could put two doors on a kind of V shape?

NotAUserNumberSoNotATroll · 05/08/2017 15:51

Do you have a downstairs toilet which is big enough to become a downstairs shower room then scrap the upstairs bathroom?

PocketNiffler · 05/08/2017 19:06

How high are your ceilings?

AlpacasPackOwls · 05/08/2017 19:11

New combi boiler in the kitchen so you can get rid of the tank and put a room between the two like pp said?

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walkalongjosie · 05/08/2017 19:14

No downstairs toilet unfortunately
Ceilings aren't particularly high it's a 90s semi
Hoping to extend in a few years so whatever we do wouldnt be forever it's just to tide us over but it needs to be comfortable and cost effective as we don't have money to do alot at the minute

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walkalongjosie · 05/08/2017 19:16

Alpacas I think this may be the way to go
How would you rejig the rooms and doors?

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walkalongjosie · 05/08/2017 19:17

Although.. The room that we would create wouldn't have a window as no outside wall.

What I wouldn't give to be able to extend!!

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PocketNiffler · 05/08/2017 19:20

Could toddler share your room with a room divider?

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walkalongjosie · 05/08/2017 19:22

That's kinda exactly what we're trying to do.. eldest has the small room and we share with toddler but where to divide the room? I may just buy a shed and live in there Grin

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OlennasWimple · 05/08/2017 19:22

i wouldn't go for a windowless room - it wouldn't be classed as a bedroom, so if you needed to sell then you would be reducing the value of your home by creating two smaller bedrooms and a large storage cupboard. PLus it sounds grim for whoever uses the room

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