Large loft conversion

[Baxdream]

Hi
I'm wondering if anyone has had a large loft conversion and can help me with ideas.
We want two rooms and a shower room.
Our house is double the width of a standard three bed semi
Thanks 😊

Following with interest, we are planning on doing similar with our 2 bed semi attached house. Wanting to do one big open plan room with an en suite bathroom. No idea how much it would cost though...

Before and after floor plans of our large loft. Cost approximately 65K including VAT. I wanted a bedroom and dressing room. Only regret would be not having a dormer window in the shower room as my husband is 6"1 and need to be careful when getting up from the loo

That's really helpful thanks! It looks lovely! We've already had a large side extension and are looking to put a gym in the loft and a study although both rooms will be bedroom size.
We're looking for ideas really. Essentially doing it rather than moving!

We had a loft conversion done last year. We've got one large (16' x 16') bedroom with an ensuite, plus a little landing area outside the bedroom which wasn't intended for anything but is actually a nice little study area. It cost about £80k in total, but that included extras such as a built-in wardrobe, storage cupboards in the eves, and re-configuring and re-decorating DS's bedroom on the 1st floor which was shrunk a bit to get the loft stairs in (it was previously a huge room and is still a good sized double, before i sound too mean! ).

Thanks! I don't want to spend that much really. Our loft is about 30 feet by 20 feet. I guess it's unusually large due to our side extension.
I'd want to convert all of it if we do it and just partition off some as a storage area.
We just need someone to see it really! Did you get an architect first and we're they good at giving ideas?

Yes we did use an architect - but we’ve got a weird shaped roof so I think it would have been nigh on impossible without one! Part of our conversion being so expensive was because we needed a hand made dormer rather than prefab due to the roof shape. The storage suggestions actually came from the builders rather than the architects.

Use an architect. What's your roof height like? We had a huge lift conversion done but cost £100k (London borders) but needed the entire roof removing and raising and a single storey extension. Top floor (2 bed, 2 bath, dressing room) is now bigger than our first flat!

Depending on what you plan for the gym I'd have some concerns with a gym in the loft - noise and damage to decor in rooms below from bouncing around or dropping weights on the floor, weight loading from equipment and even getting equipment up there in the first place!

Yoga room, resistance bands or pilates-style machines obviously not a concern, but if you are thinking of significant weights or bouncing up there make sure the architect/structural engineer knows that's the plan.

We did one with a master bed with dressing area, a second bedroom with a dormer and a shower room. Was approx £50k total. Took 12 weeks. Added a lot of value when we sold.

I'll definitely tell the builder what our plans are so we have the reinforcement.
If we're allowed dorma windows it'd be a great view so we could move our bedroom up there and our room becomes the gym

£50k is a great price! Sounds lovely 😊

Just finished a large one on our detached house. We used a specialist loft company as the architects we got out didn’t seem to have much experience in lofts and we weren’t happy with their designs. The loft company were much more confident in drawing our ideas and “got” our vision, even though they said they had never tackled a loft as large as ours. Be careful - if you go above 50 cubic m you will need planning, so they were v clever with their design to bring us in just under and we got a 6x5m bedroom with seating and coffee space (wanted to recreate a “boutique hotel type vibe) a 6x4 dressing room with large shower room (originally a bathroom but felt actually we wanted a more spacious shower rather than a cramped bathroom) and a small galleried landing as well as crawl space storage. I am really pleased with galleried landing as it gets plenty of light onto first floor and also please we managed to keep plenty of storage indoors so we’re not forever traipsing to garage. Total cost inc finishing was approx 60k in South East and I feel we got a lot for our money so v happy 😁

One top tip I would say is be very careful if you have an open plot of how you finish it...we opted for hardiboard planks which look great but can rattle and make a lot of noise when the whips across the fields. In fact we have the company coming back next week to see what (if anything) can be done.

Are there other similar houses nearby, and any with loft conversions? I got initial ideas by looking at the planning drawings on the council planning website for other conversions nearby.
Some on our road have 2 rooms plus bathroom, but we have gone for larger open plan space + bathroom

No as no one has the space that we had for our side extension

@Runningonemptea do you have any drawings? Yours sounds amazing! Exactly what I'm thinking although we'd need a study too

We're SE too. We've got a builder coming tomorrow who specialises in lofts (he's done friends conversions). I definitely want someone who can give us ideas of how to do it rather than someone who wants us to take the lead. They're the experts after all!

This is the only version I can find. We managed to squeeze out a bit more space under the eaves in the end so the dimensions aren’t accurate, but hopefully should give you an idea. We had a house v similar to yours previously and was advised we would need to have a hip to gable conversion which is quite costly. We decided against as knew we would be moving and would never have got back what we spent, but if you’re staying you’ll have oodles of room to enjoy if you go for it 😁