Possible to move bathroom upstairs - floor plan

[5thWisdom]

Is there any way, with the dimensions of the upstairs, that you could create a two bed and install a bathroom upstairs to make a larger kitchen or retain a downstairs/utility room?

Have added RM link as the screenshots are fuzzy.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/127579511

The easiest way would be to create a shower room in the top left corner of the large bedroom, so you can access it from the corridor. The corridor would have to be extended by about 1m to create access to the bedroom, and access to the shower room. You'd be left with a 3.50x2.60 room and a 1.60x1.20 shower room. Tiny, but just about possible to fit shower, loo and sink in.

A 1.6x1.2 room would e.g. allow you to fit a 160x70cm bathtub with overhead shower and leaves 50cm for a 2in1 toilet with basin. A 3.50m wide room leaves enough space for a 1.5m King size bed and 1m space either side. You could reduce the width of the bedroom to 3m, making the bathroom 1.7m wide, so you could fit a seperate loo and small corner basin.

I’d say not. Looking at the photos, there’s not enough head room in the bedrooms either side so you’d have to put the bathroom in the middle of the rooms! Also, your soil pipes / plumbing would be a nightmare as you wouldn’t be putting a bathroom above where it’s already situated. Are the radiators electric? If so, there might be no water at all upstairs. So it would be a very costly job.

But would you gain that much by taking out the downstairs shower room? There seems to be a nice dining space, and the shower room is new, might be a shame to rip it put. If you want a kitchen diner, is there maybe a possibility to add an extension?

Agree with poster above. You would be best to get a builder in to look at where the water and soil pipes would go.

Is this a house that you own or are planning to buy? The layout is strange!

Could you extend on top of the kitchen?

I would extend over the kitchen. You will probably have no water or soil stacks at the front of the house so you are limited to where you can have the plumbing. We have the same issue at the bank of our house.

You would probably get enough headroom as you could move the shower about 1.6m away from the eaves, you'd need to measure the height in situ. The plumbing is the big bid, you'll have to take floorboards, carpets up, put up new waste pipe outside or even use a macerator. Things like that are possible, of course, but if you are prepared to have that much upheaval and cost, you might be better of with an extension, or buying a house with a sit in kitchen and upstairs bathroom already in place.

You could potentially have a small shower room
with sliding door here and retain two doubles (just!) but you’ll need a new SVP down to the ground and probably excavate a trench in the floor for a route out… to connect with wherever your main drains are…

Given where the kitchen, and presumably water, is could you put a Jack and Jill bathroom on the wall with the windows? Not sure you've got the space between the windows, or the headspace, to do it tho.

it would be VERY difficult.

options include
a) extend over the kitchen. turn the window of bed 1 into a low door to get into the new bathroom. add a velux window or bed1 will end up with no window

b) squeeze in into bed2 as @CafeNervosa suggests. you'd probably need a grotty macerator toilet because the pipes wouldn't work otherwise.

both would be expensive and not-very-nice in the end.

Space wise you can. But what’s your budget? You’d need a water pipe and a waste pipe to go upstairs and the out pipes externally. So there would need to be penetrations to the ceiling downstairs and the outside wall. If you haven’t bought it, I probably wouldn’t bother.