How to get 5 usable bedrooms

[Bimmy76]

This house has 5 bedrooms but one is off another, which isn’t practical.

Ideas I’ve had:

• use the study downstairs as a bedroom
• divide Bedroom 1 in two and put a door in

What else could we do? Feel I’m missing something obvious. Bedrooms don’t need to be big but must all be able to get to a bathroom.

Ps it looks as if bedroom 4 has an external door- it doesn’t.

Can a corridor be made around the corner of 3 to create access to 4?

Cut the top left corner off bedroom 3 to make a small hallway to bedroom 4.Bedroom 3 looks quite big and would have some allowance to do that.

It looks like you have restricted headroom, but could you put a corridor east west between beds 3 and 4?

Sort of cut off the corner. Stud wall. If door between could be moved to edge might be even better - guessing from plan thin wall might be stud

Do you need a garage and a car port? Could one of those be converted?

I also think - head height permitting take the corner off bed 4 to get to bed 3.

Also yes on the full floor plan there are (I think) steps coming down outside the house from bed 4, so I think it is an external door.

Could get two more - move door to bedroom 1 & take chunk from that room & hallway to make another single.

And take top left hand corner from bedroom 3 & move door to bedroom 4 so the entrance is close to that top corner.

You could also convert garage.

Depends on ages of occupants. The downstairs en suite seems an obvious choice of bedroom to me. If someone needs a study then surely the ‘corridor’ bedroom would do?

We converted garage for BR 6.

Can the study be used as a bedroom? It has its own bathroom.

Or make a corridor through 4 to get to 3. Or if it’s for chikdren you might find two don’t mind sharing one of those two bedrooms as a bedroom and the other one as a play room / study.

Spiral staircase from sitting room directly up to bed 3?

Bed4 is enormous! It looks like there might be head height issues but even so, are you sure you can't carve off a bedroom and leave the rest as corridor to 3. It's a 15 foot square room and you only need about 8 foot width. An L shaped room can also be quite practical & good for storage.

Otherwise yes, 5th bedroom downstairs and use the walkthrough room as a study. It's not ideal to have a bedroom practically off the kitchen though.

Looks like hall and bathroom space on the small floor has potential, if you really can't do the corridor through bed4.

Bedroom in study the make bedroom 4 the study (or a snug) so it's fine to walk through/not a private room to get to bedroom off it.