What would you do with this house if you bought it?

[Curiosity101]

We're considering viewing this house but there's so much that could potentially be done with it. I wondered if the Mumsnet hive mind could give me some ideas. Not quite money no object cause we'd need to fund it... But equally would really enjoy seeing anything people can think of.

I screen shot these pictures from my phone so I might need to re upload them in a larger size (I'll double check once I'm on my PC).

Downstairs- I’d knock the utility and study out and knock down conservatory . Have 2 doors fitted from hall , one to the room at back as a bedroom (blocking off sitting room door) and other door to front bedroom. Then build an extension right across the back from kitchen to sitting room and have open plan living right across. Lots of glass and huge glass doors from hall where the study and utility used to be . Upstairs I’d make the middle bedroom en-suite to master bedroom

Lounge stays where it is , just blocking off kitchen door . Massive room at back could be living , dining, kitchen , maybe with an island but lots of sliding doors on garden of possible. So as you walk in to the hall front entrance, glass in front leads to large open plan room at back . Hope this all makes sense

Or leave the utility room there , but convert it as part of bedroom to make it bigger and doors in kitchen from knocked out study

It's annoying that the only bathroom/toilet on the upper floor is an en-suite, I'd want that turned into a family bathroom. Not sure how.

How many bedrooms do you need? Is it a forever home or something to do up and sell on?

Just realised, downstairs back bedroom wouldn’t have a window so change of plan . Front bedroom door from hall . Room whine is study from kitchen extension room . Utility becomes a cupboard from hall and knock out study for entrance to kitchen extension

Room behind is study that was ment to say

Upstairs middle bedroom become Jack n jill en-suite to both huge bedrooms

Knock down the conervatory
Erect a bluepeter flag
Paint bedroom 2 orange

I don't have the imagination to make any useful suggestions, but just wanted to say what a weird layout !

Hire an architect first.

I'd likely remove the conservatory and square off the back. Reconfigure rooms to make a couple of bedrooms and living kitchen diner with separate sitting room, utility and bathroom.

Upstairs I'd have a bedroom and family bathroom plus a master suite onto the balcony

Straight away I’d knock down the conservatory; extend out and make the garage into another room and put in a shower room downstairs.

I'm definitely not an architect but could you knock down the conservatory and go straight across the back with an extension linking the kitchen to the sitting room? Have it all open plan....kitchen, dining, sitting area. It would be a great space.

The little area off the sitting room...could you block that off and make it part of the bedroom that's at the front of the property? It would be an ideal en-suite for that bedroom.

How many bedrooms would you need? The small bedroom upstairs would be better as a main bathroom maybe?

I'm sure an architect would have much better answers! The layout does seem a bit strange though!

Purple becomes a massive living/dining/kitchen if you put a warm roof on conservatory.

Either the kitchen become a bedroom/study/cinema/gym/play room etc or the bit at the front (pink) becomes this flexible space. The one that was left (I would pick the front one) becomes a downstairs loo/wet room/utility (have a look at spanish bathrooms).

Green would be a lovely separate snug I've seen one where they had a pool table in the first bit and a snug in second bit.

Upstairs I would make the two bedrooms jack and gill then take a little bit of the L shaped room as either an ensuit or family bathroom depending on your needs.

It seems a weird mishmash. I'd reconfigure the downstairs so that noisy / living space was to one side (the left) and quiet / bedrooms to the other side (right), with services (kitchen, utility, downstairs loo) in the middle.
Is the garage needed as a garage or can it be converted?

Upstairs - the biggest bedroom. Make a section of that a bathroom as you only have one bathroom Upstairs which is an en-suite so you need another one there.

Downstairs, it depends if you want to keep the number of bedrooms. If you do I suggest you move them all to one side of the house (the garage side) as the proposed extra bedroom is currently in the middle of downstairs. If you don't need a garage I would knock that through.

If you do I suggest you move all [the bedrooms] to one side of the house (the garage side)
Same concept as me but chose the opposite way round! I suppose the decision will be majorly affected by where the sun hits the house in the daytime and night-time.

Well it all depends on the garden, land, outlook, orientation and surrounding properties ... which you haven't mentioned OP.

Personally I don't really count bedrooms on the ground floor as proper bedrooms in a 2 storey house.

Only need 3, no intentions of any more children. It'd be a forever home but is definitely a do-er-upper, it requires so much work doing...

The front is south-facing. The back garden is huge.

This is the listing.
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61245821/

Keep the ideas coming. All fantastic food for thought.

I really like the idea of knocking the conservatory down and extending across. Now people have mentioned it I can't believe I hadn't already thought of it myself, seems so obvious! As much as I like conservatories, I prefer full brick extensions much more.

It really is a weird layout at the moment. I can't work out who was living in it/how it was being lived in prior to the sale.

Could be converted, but given we only need 3 bedrooms I think I'd like to keep the garage and wouldn't rush to convert it.

My ideal house is probably:
3 bedrooms
2 full bathrooms
1 extra toilet (ideally downstairs)
1 utility room (accessed from inside and outside)
2 offices
1 kitchen (decent sized with enough room for an American-sized fridge freezer)
1 dining room
2 lounge/sitting rooms
Single garage
Decent garden

Anything else is a bonus

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of ensuites. In general, I'd choose 2 family/communal bathrooms over an ensuite.

I’d definitely knock the conservatory down and extend along the back. Open the kitchen up to include a large living/dining space. It’s got great potential and could be amazing. You’ve still got lots of room for another sitting room too. What a wonderful garden space.

It's amazing, I'm completely in love with it and we know the area really well. It just needs everything doing to it and we have two small DCs (1yo and 3yo). So I don't know if we'll put an offer in, but we're definitely going to book a viewing and see how we feel about it after.