Can I split this loft room to make 2 bedrooms...help

[Delilahx]

Hi, I'm after some advice. I'm fingers crossed finally moving out of rented after leaving a horrible marriage. I've finally got enough together for a deposit and have offered on a property. The loft is done out as per the pictures. I was wondering if there is anyway I could split this room into two and it work out ok. It's for my 2 oldest boys, late teens. Oldest has ASD. I think it would mean one going through the other ones room to get to the stairs because of lack of space. The whole house needs redecorating. I was hoping someone would have an ingenious idea that is staring me in the face but cant see! But it could just be impossible too. Thank you in advance.

@titchy I was literally about to suggest exactly what your picture shows

zaffa hopefully its attached now.
titchy thank you, that is what I was thinking initially. I need to go back and see if there is enough head room. All great ideas, thank you everyone

It's not a big house but I hope we can make it work.

@Delilahx

springfan yes there is a dining room. But the stairs are in it up to that room, so maybe move the stairs instead of putting walls up upstairs? I will look and check out how much and if its possible. Thank you

One son has the dining room as a bedroom, other son has the loft room?

Oh, I'd just use the dining room. Or you have the upstairs room and they have the downstairs rooms next to each other. You could make the upstairs room a bit of a retreat away from them then.

Different idea but could you use the three rooms downstairs as bedrooms and the loft room as the lounge?

Leaving the stairs as is i mean.
My cousins had bedrooms like this, one in the loft was accessed through another bedroom. It was better than sharing.

Where do the stairs come into the dining room? Could you partition them off, give one DS the dining room and the other the loft? So essentially run a corridor through the dining room?

@SwedishEdith

Oh, I'd just use the dining room. Or you have the upstairs room and they have the downstairs rooms next to each other. You could make the upstairs room a bit of a retreat away from them then.

Yes, is the dining room big enough to be your lounge? Then loft room is your bedroom?

Did you say the stairs to the loft room are in the dining room?

On that floor plan, would it work to make bedroom 1 for one, the living room a bedroom for the second, the dining room the living room and the loft room your bedroom?

The window would be a problem, but could you furniture divide the living room into 2 long thin bed rooms, use bed1 as the living room, and you have the loft?

@DespairingHomeowner

If it’s 8 ft wide, you need 6ft for length of a single bed, leaving 2 feet for corridor. I think it’s too tight, and the place for it (wall opposite windows) is too low in headroom from these pics

That makes no sense, she doesn’t need to put the bed width ways, she can put it length

Op, yes you can do it, rooms would be on average 5 foot by nine foot. Single bed running along side rhe nine foot wall.

Hi thank you all for your ideas. The stairs come down the back wall of the dining room towards the window, so I cant partition them off or it will block the window if I make a corridor. So the other option is not having a dining space and making that a bedroom. Still one walking through the others room, I've just asked them and they both want the upstairs room!

I'd use the dining room as the lounge, then have a bedroom each.

Maybe the lounge would split into teo rooms better? Might mean one doesnr have a window but might have to steal light via lightblocks or similar Then bedroom 1 is the lounge, dining room remains and you take upstairs.

Moving stairs is major work & v pricey

Do you have a younger child who could have 1 of the upstairs rooms (ie who might be less disturbed by someone walking through, or spends less time in room). If it’s a young child you could make use of the alcove for a thinner bed: I had a 3 foot wide bed at university, I’m not small but it was fine

Take the upstairs room yourself, give one the downstairs bedroom and the other the lounge!

I think swapping bedroom for living room would be a bit much for me. Theres a large old sandstone fireplace in the living room and big fitted wardrobes in the bedroom. I need the easiest and least costly way for it to work really. I'm thinking partition upstairs either furniture or wall with one walking through the other.

I would use the dining room as a living room and turn the lounge into a third bedroom.
You don't need two reception rooms.

@Delilahx

despairing I'm going to do that initially and see how they get on. Physically divide it as much as possible. Once we're in I suppose we can see how it goes. Thank you. They are both 6ft so will need standard size single beds I think.

Just read this & saw floor plan, so my last comments irrelevant sorry!

Or could I move the stairs to the left wall of the dining room. Sort of turn them 90 degrees? So they come out into the hall? Not sure if that's possible

Is there an estate agents photo of the dining room? It's hard to visualise the stairs

B and Q do these dividers (which always seem to be out of stock) which could work www.diy.com/departments/karalis-cut-out-adjustable-height-room-divider/1012710_BQ.prd.

A joiner could knock something similar up pretty easily.

@VeggieSausageRoll

Did you say the stairs to the loft room are in the dining room?

On that floor plan, would it work to make bedroom 1 for one, the living room a bedroom for the second, the dining room the living room and the loft room your bedroom?

This!

We had similar problems so use our living room as our bedroom (complete with fireplace) and the dining area as the living room. It's a small living room but it works because boys spend most of their time in their rooms.