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We recently bought an Edwardian house. The bathroom is downstairs, accessed through the kitchen. This is relatively common in surrounding houses, but it does mean a somewhat irritating trip to the loo if you wake up in the night.
No DCs yet, but this is the plan in the next few years, and I really want an upstairs bathroom before TTC.
My thoughts:
- The house is 3 bedroom, semi detached. 2 beds in the area go for less, so I am loathe to turn a bedroom into a bathroom and reduce the value in case we do sell in future/for remortgaging purposes.
- A loft conversion would be lovely, but not really affordable at present.
- I don't want to split the front bedroom as it is a nice sized master, has a beautiful original fireplace I've slaved away restoring, and I don't want a soil pipe in the front of my house.
- There are a lot of houses in the area, with a small upstairs bathroom and small box room as the 3rd bedroom (5 x 8 foot is common, but we did view a couple of houses with 6ft6 x 5ft6 foot box rooms).
I have been debating how to fit in an upstairs bathroom, and am thinking of removing chimney breast and splitting the 2nd bedroom, to give a 9ft x 6ft6 bedroom and a (cosy!) 4ft 6 x 9ft bath/shower room.
I may retain the downstairs bathroom, or possibly have a futility room.
What do the wise women of Mumsnet think?