Would splitting a bedroom in two add value?

[lovelyupnorth]

We moved into a 3 bedroom house last year.

We need to replace one of the bathrooms and are thinking at same time creating a 4th bedroom.

We could use some of the bathroom and some of Bedroom 2 to create a 4th bedroom.

This would give us

Bedroom 2 - 16ft by 8ft
Bathroom - 6ft by 6ft - room for toilet sink and bath. But as it stands no window

Bedroom 4 (new bedroom) 14ft by 10ft

We don't need a 4th bedroom but we do need to replace the bathroom - very old and has a leak - also has 2 sinks and a bidet we don't need.

Daughters room is massive at the minute.

Thoughts.

Those are huge bedrooms and make a ton of sense to split I think. Exactly how you do it is up to you, but I think I'd try and have one master and two roughly equal smaller doubles, I think that will be more appealing than two big rooms and a tiny single.

@Comefromaway

I would definitely do it.

Your downstairs layout would be ideal for someone like my dh who once restrictions are over will be working from home teaching music students. The downstairs bedroom would beceome a study and its own toilet would be a bonus so they didn't have to traipse through the house to the family one.

The downstairs room effectively has its own entrance. One thing we are thinking is AirBnB with that room as we are close to a very touristy area.

Would work well as a teaching room or consultation room.

@Evecob

With that floorplan and the dimensions you suggested it would work fine and would increase the value for sure.

I would consider a window in the bathroom.though for salability in future.

We are going to look at either going with a smaller 4th bedroom or adding a window to a smaller bathroom. The current window is pretty much hopeless.

@stayathomegardener

I'd turn the loo round to back onto the bedroom so keeping the window in the bathroom. Remove the cupboard and stud out an equal area into the bathroom towards the loo gifting that double the cupboard space to the bedroom. iykwim. If not consider how an extra window would look from the outside. Potentially not great in a barn conversation.

The extra window wouldn't impact on external look and it's in the side of a hill with only sheep who see it. The front windows are a strange layout already.

This is it currently.

I agree, knock the cupboard out and have a smaller 4th bedroom. Especially as you don’t actually have a child needing to live in it full time.

10x8 is probably the same size as our spare bedroom. Dh uses it as an office and it’s plenty big enough. The previously owners their teenager lived in it and it had a single bed, small desk, wardrobe, drawers.

You’d still have two decent size rooms on that level, a good size bathroom and then a smaller bedroom/study. Would add more value. The smaller bedroom would be fine for a child. If anyone you sell it to in the future has two kids they can have both kids on the same level when they’re younger and if necessary when one is older they can move floors to a bigger bedroom.

I did notice the separate entrance.