Please offer your ideas to changes of the bungalow layout

[Cushionandpillow]

I’m wanting to change the layout of the bungalow. The whole place needs gutting and going back to brick.

I currently have an open plan lounge/kitchen/diner which works really well for my family so would like the same in the bungalow.

The end room off the lounge is just a lean to so that will be ripped down.
I want to keep the 3 bedrooms.
Any ideas or suggestions please!

Where’s the front door? In the kitchen?

Bedroom 1 to be the kitchen with sliding pocket doors to the lounge. Old kitchen to be a bedroom with what will have to be a small hall and perhaps a guest toilet? Could you consider building a porch to extend the hall?

Do you want to keep the three bedrooms where they are currently, or just keep three bedrooms?

What's strange in the current layout, is essentially having a kitchen in the middle of three bedrooms and the bathroom. Seems nicer to separate sleeping/washing from cooking/eating/living.

Are you able to extend outwards or upwards at all or do you need to keep the same footprint?

Just playing with the layout a bit.

Move front door to centre of front of house.

Move kitchen to the back/bed 3.

Half old kitchen into two bedrooms but extend them sideways into the old bed 2 and hallway.

Bit of a hallway corridor effect to get into the living part of the house but then bungalows traditionally have the bedrooms at the front and living at the back.

@Caspianberg yes the front door is in the kitchen

@Mosaic123 bedroom 1 in the kitchen wouldn’t work because that’s where the front door is, it’s a very strange layout for a bungalow!

@PragmaticWench I want to keep three bedrooms, and jig the layout around so it’s more cohesive, currently the layout doesn’t flow at the moment. I haven’t got the scope at the moment for an extension.

@LivingInaBuildingSite that’s interesting, my only reservation would be there’s no space to extend the small bathroom 🤔

These were my thoughts but I can’t jig it so every bedroom has a window and I would have to put a back door also in the kitchen as well as the front

Assuming all internal walls have gone, could you steal a bit of where I’ve put the kitchen to add to the bathroom?

Assuming it’s a semi so can’t add any windows on the left side?

Start with just the footprint, put in immovables if there are any and start afresh?

But you will have to consider drainage/soil pipes/plumbing. Moving them is more expensive.

Can you keep the lean to bit at the end to keep the extra space?

Extend where current lean to is and wrap around back of that bedroom 3.

Bedroom 3 becomes new larger bathroom. Add window at side

Bathroom becomes a utility room/ pantry/ storage

Kitchen becomes bedroom 3

New main entrance at side into living room.

Living room and extension become an L shaped kitchen/ diner/ living room

Like this

I would extend behind the kitchen to the line of the back wall. Move bed 2 to kitchen and bathroom and bed 3 in extension. Bed 2 would become hall through to open plan lounge kitchen diner.

With fuel bills going up do you really want totally open plan. Better from a fuel economy point of view to have separate areas where you can micromanage the temperatures. Movable screens or voluptuous curtains as room dividers might work.

Is it semi detached or detached?

Where is the garden / patio?

Which way is south?

Can you put in sky lights and/or vaulted ceilings to gain direct overhead day light in appropriate rooms?

@Caspianberg I like your idea of the extension and have living/dining/kitchen at the back but at the moment my budget won’t stretch to an extension with all the work that is needed on the inside.

@DFOD it is semi detached, it’s on a corner so the garden stretches round the right side, the patio is next to the lean to which will be coming down as it is rotting I like your idea of sky lights to gain light into 1 of the bedrooms l.

Do you know which way is south facing?

@DFOD the front of the bungalow is south facing

Trying something else, if it makes sense:

Move front door to the left hand side of the front, straight into the new kitchen (which is what you have atm, although could consider a porch?).

One long shared living space, kitchen, diner, living area, patio doors to back. Window next to front door for light from the south.

Change bed 2 into a large bathroom but, move the wall towards the front a bit.

This give you wall space for two doors from the internal hallway to slice the old kitchen into two bedrooms. One with a window to front, one to the back.

Current Bed 3 you could make a bit bigger by bringing its internal wall forwards as well using some of the old bathroom space.

Depending on space you could try and squeeze in a small en-suite next to bed 3 if that’s a priority.

[quote Cushionandpillow]@DFOD the front of the bungalow is south facing[/quote]
Then I would put all off the kitchen living dining to face south and would access the back and side gardens where the cross is.

Position all of the bedrooms to the back where it is north facing and dark. The bathroom can be internal with a roof light. Could you put a porch to the front to capture shoes/coats and create a buffer to walking straight into the house?

I'd do something like this, with a large light well over the kitchen.

Taking @DFOD s idea of using the front southern facing for more living area.

Just not sure the middle bedroom will be big enough and the living layout would need thinking about.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions, it has given me a lot more ideas than I could conjure up, I was close to banging my head against a brick wall because I couldn’t think how to make it work. I will be adding the porch to create a bit more of a buffer than straight into the house.

Thank you again everyone, all the ideas are greatly appreciated!

I like @LivingInaBuildingSite's drawing