Are big bedrooms a deal breaker?

[AmIAWeed]

Our bungalow was originally 3 bedrooms, 2 doubles 1 single.
It was extended and 2 box rooms added (at the opposite end to the current bedrooms, off the living room!) but living space not increased so it doesn't work particularly well as a 5 bedroom home.
We are planning a large extension to the kitchen and a sunroom on the back of the living room to increase living space.

The bedrooms however are getting me in a muddle.

We are planning on going upstairs to create a large master bedroom, only over half the bungalow so we can have a vaulted ceiling in the lounge.
We will likely sacrifice the single room to accommodate the stairs. and potentially add a cupboard for coats etc. So far all good, as the room upstairs is an improvement on this single room.

However, we also want to convert the garage for my husbands business, it must be a secure room. To do this, we'd need to make the 2 double rooms slightly smaller to accommodate a hallway to the garage.
Future uses could be a bedroom for someone or they could make it into an ensuite and dressing room for the small double room.
This means we'd end up with a huge master room upstairs, 2 small doubles and 2 box rooms.

So, would this bother you, 4 (potentially 5) small bedrooms and 1 huge one?

I do think an architect would be money well spent, they can really help,you with ideas to maximise space.

I agree with a PP. I think you should just make a doorway from the garage into one of the box rooms and access it that way for the time being. Then I'd employ an architect to design the house. I think even with a loft as the master, it really doesn't work as a 5 bed house , there's not enough living space even with your extension for a 5 bed house. Maybe ask the architect to give you the master and 3 good doubles and balanced living space with good flow and functionality.

Architects will give you ideas you probably can't see yourself.

I agree that you should get an architect as the plans just look bad. A series of small spaces in a random layout and what looks like only one living area?

More radical thinking.

So, how about knocking the 2 small box rooms and bathroom through into one room, to be the new kitchen, with doors into the garden.
You could put the sunroom/conservatory/dingin space? right across the back of both, so you have a much bigger living area.

Current kitchen becomes the place for the stairs. Try and get an ensuite upstairs, so you have 2 bathroom again.
That gives you 1 master, 2 doubles and 1 single. 4 beds and decent sized living space.

Utility either stays as a laundry room (put door in to outside), or becomes the secure office for dh.

If dh needs more space, eg the garage size, why not put a secure door in from the outside? Why does he need access through the house?

One thing I would say is, drop the idea of a corridor to the garage and find another way to do that, that would solve a lot of the size of bedrooms problems you are having.

That sounds radical but pretty good. It didn't really enter my head to change the position of the kitchen.
Secure room essentially needs to be a walk in safe. Security would be compromised with access externally as he'd be taking items from his safe outside to bring back into the house as his office.

@AmIAWeed

That sounds radical but pretty good. It didn't really enter my head to change the position of the kitchen. Secure room essentially needs to be a walk in safe. Security would be compromised with access externally as he'd be taking items from his safe outside to bring back into the house as his office.

How big does that need to be?

Room sized? or safe sized?
If not so big, could you put a secure safe under the new stairs?

Or put a walk in safe /cupboard in one of the bedrooms that would go with you when you move? Eg, single bedroom becomes his work space/ safe.

If it is bigger, why not make the garage his office too, so he goes in to work, and stays in there, so no need to come back and forward?

What you use the rooms for doesn't matter as long as they can be returned to bedroom etc when you want to sell.

If you don't actually need the other rooms at bedrooms, you could set dh up anywhere!

You could also put your proposed sun room between the garage and utility room so it would double up as access to the garage.