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Help with a layout!

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hotcookie · 19/01/2021 08:45

We're looking to move house; and have seen one which looks beautiful. The only problem is it only has one bathroom & we'd really prefer at least an en-suite with shower (preferable not a 900 cubicle either)
We would still want to have 4 bedrooms (one for use as an office though, but enough room for a single bed in the future when selling again) but I can't make it work without making rooms tiny (& they're fairly small already)
Any ideas without extension? With extension?

This is the first floor. There would be scope to convert a garage and put a shower room in there but I'd really like an en-suite

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GU24Mum · 19/01/2021 08:55

There will be far more artistic people than me no doubt but it does look tricky if you want a half-decent sized en suite and not to lose a room.

Could you move Bedroom 4 into the bathroom then out the bathroom and en-suite in its place and possibly move the wall if one of the bedrooms on that side to get the sizes right?

Depends where the water/sewage is though and could be a lot of work if the house isn't otherwise perfect.

Cyberworrier · 19/01/2021 09:02

I’d say you’d be best to turn Bed 4 into an en-suite for Bed 1 and then convert your garage into a guest room with its own en-suite. I don’t think it’s a large enough footprint on the first floor to make 3 comfortable bedrooms, a bathroom, en-suite and box room. (It’s obviously not small but I think would feel cramped if you fitted all that in!)
If you show ground floor plans too we can all think about potential first floor extension ideas too?

NeedsImprovement01 · 19/01/2021 09:09

Any potential for a loft conversion? Given you may then be able to add a bathroom without moving plumbing it may be the best value solution, although not the cheapest.

PurBal · 19/01/2021 09:10

I don't think the rooms are big enough to keep it as a 4 bed. The plumbing is also in the corner so that would be a consideration. The obviously solution is to make bed 4 another bathroom and make into a 3 bed. But I'm wondering if it's big enough to make into 2 shower rooms: one accessed from the hall and one from bedroom 1 with a window, then make the current bathroom the study.

hotcookie · 19/01/2021 09:25

Thanks
These are the ground floor plans, it's had an extension on the front/utility/study area so a bigger footprint.
I think the sewage must be on the right corner tbh and it might be very tricky to add another upstairs but splitting bedroom 4 would be a possibility. We'd def want a bath though. It's right at the top of our budget so I wouldn't want a really expensive option

Roof pitch looks too shallow for a loft conversion unfortunately, we did that in our current 1930s semi and it added loads of space

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Loofah01 · 19/01/2021 10:10

Buy it ad move in. Save for second storey extension and easily add the bathroom then. Not the instant fix people want but you do get it.

hotcookie · 20/01/2021 07:41

@Loofah01

Buy it ad move in. Save for second storey extension and easily add the bathroom then. Not the instant fix people want but you do get it.
Yeah I think that's what we'll need to do (if it's not under offer by the time we get to view it!)
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