Options for property with downstairs bathroom

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We like this property but it only has a downstairs bathroom. It won't bother us too much and will be quite handy for washing the dog but if in the longer term we wanted to add a bathroom what are our options? What would others do and what would be the likely cost- add toilet ensuite to main bedroom, extend?

www.ben-rose.co.uk/property/residential/for-sale/lancashire/chorley/haigh-close/31148017

I think you'd struggle without losing a bedroom. You could potentially taken a chunk of either of the larger bedrooms but you'd have to re-jig the doorways too which would be a big compromise.

Attic conversion is really the only option, anything else is going to seriously cut into a bedroom. A master en suite doesn’t solve the problem in a family house as it still doesn’t give free access to an upstairs bathroom. I think if you really want an upstairs bathroom you need to buy a house with an upstairs bathroom.

It may be possible to extend the dormer on the front bedroom to make an en-suite in the master bedroom but this would depend on how much roof there is to extend to ( next door looks like that may have been done but I couldn't find any floor lans for the next door house - maybe ask them or look on the council planning website

Sadly no option to go up into an roof as the building is a chalet type and the bedrooms are already in the roof

Or possibility go out over the garage / rebuild or loose garage and extend above ? All depends on costs and if it was just more economical to buy something that was easier to work with

OP, I've got a downstairs bathroom. All the properties in my price range seemed to be the same issue. We've lived with it for 4 years now and got used to it. But I still regularly replan my dream future extension to house a bathroom upstairs!

I looked at a v similar house to the one you've linked to. In fact, I nearly bought it but they pulled out last minute! They had built an upstairs shower room in the main bedroom, off the landing. Other houses along that road that I looked at, had done similar.

Pros of having the bathroom downstairs-its been great with kids. My youngest can be in the bath whilst I'm pottering around. Now they are getting older, I'd much prefer to have the option of showering upstairs. It was the compromise of buying the house in this beautiful location.

I tell you, I so wish we had a downstairs bathroom at the moment. Plumbing issues and now have damaged, waterstained, kitchen ceiling. At the moment, I see a downstairs bathroom as a selling point

If I really wanted an upstairs bathroom without losing a bedroom, I'd extend the kitchen straight back about 2m into the garden, and make that a double height extension so that bed 3 also becomes about 3m longer (you gain more in the slope of the roof). Then you can make the first half of bed 3 into a small bathroom (above the existing bathroom) and make the extended bit into the new bed 3. But that is probably quite expensive.

The cheapest option is to re purpose the garage into a downstairs bedroom with en-suite and to knock through the house into it.

Then use the smallest bedroom as a bathroom,

Put a car port on the side to replace the garage.