Bedrooms with en-suites and no family bathroom?

[princesspq]

We are at the very early stages of planning an extension. Currently we have a 3 bedroom house and the initial plan is to do a double storey extension for a master bedroom with walk in wardrobe and en-suite. This would give us a 4 bedroom house.
My issue is that I would like a lot of wardrobe space and a large en-suite.

My DH has suggested getting rid of the family bathroom to make our en-suite and wardrobe bigger, we would then change the fourth bedroom into 2 en-suites for the other bedrooms
This would mean we would lose a bedroom and no longer have a shared bathroom.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Of course I'm thinking it may decrease the value but we have no intentions of moving ever! It seems very practical but I don't know if I'm missing something. We have a downstairs toilet for guests

TIA

@ExactlyThis

The cost of the extension will be huge and you won’t see that back if you don’t increase the number of bedrooms. Other than that, I don’t see the issue.

I was coming to say this, illustrated simply:

You currently own a 3 bed house which cost you £500k (as an example).

Let's say 4 bed houses in your area cost £650k (again, an example).

A double storey wraparound extension might cost you £150k (assume £2k per sq m, 75sq m)

If all goes according to plan with the extension, you'll still have a 3 bedroom house, but you'll have spent £650k on it, and perhaps get back £600k tops. No-one expects 3 bathrooms upstairs in a 3 bedroom house, so I doubt they'd fork out too much more than that for it.

To future proof your investment, I'd create the 4 bedrooms, then use the extra room as a walk-in wardrobe. It doesn't have to be attached to your bedroom to call it such. I'd also make sure to put in a really nice family bathroom with big shower and bathtub, so it would still appeal to families in future.

Perfectly fine. Why do you need a family bathroom if every room has one. Family bathrooms are a product of lacking enough space to be in a superior position that you are in.

Could you have one of the en suites have a door on to the corridor as well as on to the bedroom jack and Jill style?

You can always turn the 2 ensuites back to a family bathroom in the future if that'll work better.

You probably won't get the value of the extension back (we've spent £10s of thousands on ours) but we get the value of living in it the way we want to without the hassle of moving. And living in the location we want.

In monetary terms if we moved next year we'd have 'lost' £100K. But we aren't moving next year....more likely in 10 or 15 years and we'll have had that time of value of living in the house. And some of it just needed to be spent to update it.

We didn't do it to make money...that would have been a very different extension.

We thought about doing this, but decided against because I want fewer bathrooms to clean (2.5 for a 4 person family seems enough), and also I imagine issues when the kids are older and don’t want me in their room but also don’t want to clean their own bathroom.

That said, I agree with others that you should do what is right for your family longer term. Who knows what buyers will want in 30 years - think of all the separate toilets being knocked through these days.

It depends on whether it is your forever house or you're looking to sell in next 10 years or so.

Design the house that works best for you day to day. You say you have no intention of moving so surely it's more important to just be comfortable rather than worry about making money back or adding extra bedrooms. Make hay while the sun shines :)

I think it’s a perfect idea (I have all en-suites and a family bathroom upstairs that is never used).

As long as you have a downstairs loo and at least one of the en-suites has a bath it’s the preferable option.

We have 4 bedrooms on the first floor and each has a bathroom. One bathroom has 2 doors: 1 to landing, 1 to the room. Best of both.

Who else is in your household? Why assume en-suites are only showers and not baths? Maybe the occupants of those bedrooms would also like a bath. Bearing in mind you say you would definitely want one.

I would prefer the extra bedroom which could be used as an office instead of garden room. I would prefer garden space or a nice room to sit and enjoy garden if creating a garden room (might be old fashioned but I would prefer conservatory to garden room but wouldn't work as an office).

So for me I would get rid of family bathroom to make master ensuite and walk in wardrobe bigger for you and dh day to day. I would want to keep the other bedrooms and have a one family bathroom rather than two ensuites but if not possible two bedrooms with ensuites and no family bathroom at all would work as well.

Perhaps one if the bedrooms could be a dressing room/wardrobe?