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.

Can you steal some space from the hall and combine part of it with the dining room and use that as the lounge? Then you can use the other 3 rooms (upstairs, bedroom, lounge) as bedrooms.

You can do what you want if you buy it but it won’t ever legally be classed as two rooms or even one room if building regs and head height etc arnt right. Just split it and then in split if you need to sell.

Rather than putting in actual walls could you do it with Ikea kallax?

That would give you storage in the "walls" and easy flexibility to move when you want need to?

@Bluntness100: ‘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 ‘

Look at titchy’s diagram, which is the only logical option for a corridor (with very low headroom). In the bedroom near the stairs, there is a max width of big room (now length of divided room) of 8 foot. Corridor has got to take up some space - .? 2 foot? So v v tight in that room

Moving stairs around is very expensive, I have been told.

I would make the dining room a bedroom. Really they are old enough that they shouldn't be arguing over a room so I would take the loft room, give one the dining room as a bedroom and the other the first bedroom. The dinning room looks too small to be the living room.

You say 'two oldest boys'- so does that mean there's other younger ones? I think that would make a difference to the other solutions such as using the dining room.

Just make the dining room your living room. That’s all you need to do. Do without a dining room. Then everyone gets their own large bedroom, one in the loft, one the downstairs bedroom and the other the former lounge.

The dining room cannot be a bedroom because the stairs are in it.

@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?

I'd do this! You all get a big bedroom then and no one has to walk through each other's rooms.

I personally would make the dining room your living room, keep the upstairs bedroom for yourself and let your two sons have the two downstairs rooms.

That's the cheapest (Ie no cost), no sharing and no hassle. Get a fold down table for the dining room. It'll be a bit of a squeeze but it would do for a few years.

Alternatively, I'd your sons live in their bedrooms. You take the downstairs bedroom and let your sons have the lounge and upstairs bedroom. They're so big, you'll have the living room to yourself and, let's be honest the dining room is plenty big enough as a living room for one!

Thank you everyone, my brain is hurting in a good way thinking about the possibilities! I'm swaying now towards using the dining room as a bedroom. Then everyone has their own room just one is walked through. The dining room isnt big enough to be a living room even with pinching a bit off the hall. They can swap over every so often to make it fair I suppose.

I'd open up the livingroom into the hall and would install glass doors into the kitchen, giving the impression of a larger space.

Keep the upstairs to yourself - that's your haven. And you bloody well deserve it!!

To give you an idea of cost I had my stairs turned 180 degrees and a corridor created upstairs to avoid walking through a bedroom to get to the loo. All in it cost just under £12K (Thames Valley).

Make the lounge a big bedroom from you; small cosy living room in dining room?

four thank you for that info. That option is definitely out then!

Could you afford to create two sleeping pods in the attic room? One by each window. Then the rest of the space they can have as a common gaming area or whatever they want. Something like this, but with sliding doors or similar to each pod: www.pinterest.at/pin/234539093068008645/?nic_v2=1a6uWuceJ

Think I would make the sitting room into your bedroom/sitting room with every day use sofa bed and some great storage. Then make dining room into another sitting area with a table in it, maybe knock wall down into hall to give you more space.

Then boys can have bedroom and loft room as their rooms.

If the dining room is too small for a living room, then I'd go for making the dining room and loft room for the boys to share between them.

This may not be a helpful comment, but are you sure this is the right property for you? Obviously I have no idea of the market where you are or your criteria, but if you've not committed yet, might there be something else that would fit your needs better, so 3 bed, or a different 2 bed with a more easily divisible room?

The rooms are good sizes. Do you have a younger child going in with you already?

The living room looks big enough to get a table into as well as the sofas. That would free up the dining room for some gaming potentially, and if that means the upstairs bedrooms are little more than sleep pods, that's ok.

Congratulations on your new house OP, it looks like it'll be great. Can't beat a chalet style house for flexibility. It might be worth getting a quote to knock the fireplace out, if you want rid long term. We lived with an enormous brick one for years before we bought a new fireplace, and the fireplace company knocked the old one out in nothing flat. The time to do it is before you replace living room carpets. Of course others are way more structural, but we were lucky and the room felt so much bigger afterwards.

The dining room cannot be a bedroom because the stairs are in it.

Don't see why that matters.

Is the upstairs room big enough to be split into a living room and a bedroom? (So you’d walk through the living room on the way to a bedroom).

Could you move the wall between the lounge and kitchen.

Kitchen becomes kitchen diner.

Small lounge bedroom

Dining room small lounge

?

I like the sleeping pod idea.