What do you think of this layout?

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We currently need 5 double beds (x4 teens - 2 at uni) and will use the single bed on the plan as a TV snug. The large single space 5mx11m (kitchen, living, dining with no TV) also works better for how we live as a family as there are lots of us and their friends in and out - and they all have double bedrooms on the same level each with space for small sofa etc to retreat to.

When we sell we would allocate the room on the RHS of the front door as separate lounge/snug and maybe knock through to make the single bed an ensuite/dressing room for the master bedroom.

What do you think of the layout for selling in the longer term (one large K. L, D space and smaller snug lounge next to front door and master suite)?

I think it's fine. People don't have to use all the bedrooms as bedrooms in the future if they have less kids for example.

My DH and I are looking for a large bungalow as I run a small business from home and woukd be interested in this kind of set up were in on sale!

Just out of interest, how many sq feet or metres is the whole property?

Would work for me. I agree the need for master ensuite.

If you remove the small bathroom toncreat a snug, you are a bit low on bathrooms though

Is there no room for a study? The very large sitting room and (long term) a snug seems a lot of space, but not enough separation of areas

Have you got 3 bedrooms which are only a wall away from the living room (and then 2 if you knock through later) or have I misunderstood? That would put me off with younger children as you'd have to be so quiet once they had gone to bed.

Its 2000 sq ft. We wouldn't remove the small shower room on the LHS of the front door - it is the bedroom on the RHS of the front door that we would nominate as an additional lounge / snug - it is 14ft x 10ft. If we put in the ensuite to master - we would have family bath, 2 beds ensuite and a separate cloakroom.

As to how we would use it now - the single bedroom to the RHS would be designated by us as TV snug as we need all of the other rooms as bedrooms for the for-seeable - but it could be used as an office by someone else - but I thought that a well laid out master dressing room and ensuite created just before we sell would be a better ROI.

There is plenty of space on LHS off utility to extend to create an office with separate entrance is someone wanted to.

Yes there is just a single wall between bedrooms and lounge but they are sound proof as thick brick walls in old bungalow - have raised 4 kids here for 20 years with no problems.

Said we would knock thru the 2 bedrooms on the RHS of the drawing to create master and would just nominate the bedroom to the right of the from door as a snug/lounge for selling purposes.

2000 sq feet is a great size. There would be plenty of scope to shift things around if someone bought it. As long as you have a lovely kitchen you will sell it easily when the time comes.

It looks like you have to go through the ensuite on the LHS (H to J) to get to the bedroom. Is that right? If so, that would really put me off as a buyer, OP. I don't much fancy needing to walk through a bathroom somebody just took a dump in to get to my lovely bedroom.

Am I looking at the plan wrong?

Mary that is an ensuite in the guest bedroom - I see that the plan doesn't show the door in the right place.....it will be laid out like a standard hotel bedroom with the bathroom just inside the door and a passage way to the bed area.

I would put the guest bedroom ensuite on the outside wall, so that you walk straight into the actual bedroom and then the bathroom is at the other side.

Thats a better idea - thanks soon - it could be bigger as well then.

Any thoughts on how we could create the best layout for an ensuite / dressing room for the master (knocking g into j on RHS of diagram)?

Without moving the front door, I'm not sure you can, but personally, if you could make the room to the LHS of the door not the ensuite, it would add to the flexibility to make that room sleeping or living space.

Not 100% following plan but seems you only have 1 bath/shower for 5 bedrooms? Would be busy in the mornings.

With the hat amount of space I’d want to make the loo off the kitchen into a shower room for when the house is full of people.

I’d also ideally want to group the living and sleeping areas a bit more. Either I would put the dining room where the left hand bedroom is now, and move the sitting room left, and put the bedroom and en suite where the sitting room is now - or if you’d like to put the teenagers’ sleeping quartered well away from yours for peace and quiet, I would be tempted to stick the living areas in the middle and put a couple of bedrooms incl the master suite on the left hand side.

But that’s if I was designing layout from scratch. I’m gathering from what you’ve said that this is a redesign of the existing space ? In which case could we see a diagram of what it’s like now ?

Sorry my ramblings are not clear.

Current plan attached shows a bedroom with an ensuite to LHS of front door and then family bathroom to service other bedrooms as well as cloakroom off kitchen/dining/living. This is fine for us as 2 kids at uni and 2 at home so only 4 people for early morning rush/crush in 2 bathrooms and loo.

My thoughts when we eventually sell were that we would convert the single bedroom in the bottom RHS of the plan to a dressing room and ensuite to create master suite for bedroom g.....just looking for any ideas as to how this could be best done.

No not building from scratch unfortunately - re-jigging existing layout....avoiding extending - so there are many compromises.

Also want to keep lounge, kitchen, dining as one as this is how we live and these spaces all have direct access to garden which has nice views over fields.

Ah so the plan shows the existing layout and you’re asking how to create a master suite and a tv room / study, as you think it will appeals to future buyers more ?

Re turning bedroom j into an en suite, there are two bedrooms labelled j which is a bit confusing but you said the bottom right hand one so on that assumption I would say that you put the bathroom at the front (next to the main bathroom), then leave the door where bedroom j has the door now and put a row of wardrobes facing it on the external wall, creating a kind of dressing room corridor leading to the main bedroom which remains much as it is now.

I wouldn't do any expensive structural work to appeal to future buyers. Removing bedrooms may make it less attractive to some. I would just stage it differently. Stage the lhs room with en suite as a master, rhs as a living room and the single as a study.

That’s interesting sore - my concern would that buyers want a master ensuite and as it is a family house this would be near all of the other bedrooms - but it leaves flexibility and it is simple to put one in if a buyer wanted up that end without too much disruption.

What would appeal to me as a buyer would be a separate space from the merged living areas (assuming I wanted all bedrooms to remain as bedrooms), so I would retain a study.

To be honest, I only like kitchen-diners - adding in a living room is pointless to me, I prefer the separation of functions, so the current layour would allow me to reinstate that separation.

Keeping a separate 'snug' implies that the room you've set up for merged living is in fact impractical for the purpose of feeling warm and cosy!

For me it's kitchen/diner, plus living room, plus library/study is the perfect division of shared spaces.

Thanks thecat, yes I understand that different layouts work for different needs

• that’s why I am trying to keep options open for future buyers whilst laying it out for how we like to live as a family now. The kitchen/diner and lounge are currently separated by glass doors - which we always have open - so have decided to remove them and the short piece of wall. The seating area will be cosy as we will have solid wood floors and rugs to zone it, and big comfy sofas with their back to dining zone focused on the large wood burner. For us the single bed room will be just for watching TV, which we don’t have in the communal area. A future buyer could use the room on the RHS of the front door as a lounge - will be 14X10 - so not huge hence why I called it a snug. I don’t expect that many will need 6 beds like us - so can allocate rooms as they wish.