Big Living Space vs Tiny Bedrooms

[FridayThirteenth]

There is a house I've seen which has loads of potential and is in an amazing location (literally my ideal, I'd never want to move).

It needs a lot of work but the living space is great. If you can imagine on the attached floorplan, taking out the back window and door and replacing with sliding/bifold doors to have a huge kitchen diner opening to the garden. The upstairs living room is also big and there are two bathrooms, plus 4 bedrooms (we would need one for WFH study/guest to stay, and one for each of our 2 DC).

The main problem is the size of the bedrooms. They are all so narrow!

I can't think of a workaround as I just think for a master we wouldn't be able to fit the clothes storage we need with a decent sized bed, and even then it's just going to feel cramped.

Does anyone have any clever ideas for such narrow bedrooms?

Do you need a kitchen diner that big? Could you extend at all?

I wouldn't really like having the living space over 2 floors anyway so if everything else about the house was perfect I would extend and have a kitchen/living/diner.

Then I'd have the reception room as a master bedroom, the other room on that floor as study/guest room. Two kids rooms on top floor as well as the tiny room as a playroom or something.

Would that work? It does depend on the outside space and whether it gives the potential to extend - as well as possible cost associated with that.

Alternatively could you take some space off the living room (behind the other bedroom/opposite the stairs) to make the study/guest room? Then you could take the top back room with the tiny room as a walk in wardrobe

Hmm that's interesting one way.

The only problem with the living room becoming the master is that the stairs open out into the room, so you would have to construct a hallway which would make the room the same width as above (or near enough).

The garden is not that long (30ft) so I'm not sure about extending outwards.

You are right though, the lounge is disproportionate in size so maybe there is some way of utilising the space better. Having the small bedroom as a walk in closet would give a much better master bedroom size.