What do you think about this floorplan?

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thinking to maybe add an en-suite or dressing room, but not sure how to re jig things.

Would definitely prefer to have a bath in the property rather than just a shower.
garden currently has an out building used as a bedroom

any ideas to turn this into a more creative space ?

Thanks guys

Dire.

one shower room between five bathrooms

shudder

How many people in your family?

Honestly op, I can’t believe that you even think that one shower room for 5 bedrooms and no toilet downstairs is in any shape or form good!

one toilet in the entire house! 😂

I’m a first time buyer haha, and there’s just one of me. 25 years old. No kids. Just a small dog. :D

There are two toilets in the house. One on the ground floor.

I think it's fine, but would consider an en suite on the very top floor.

Downstairs the toilet off the dining room is a bit weird. Depending on budget could you convert the conservatory into an extension and have the kitchen there. Then downstairs toilet and utility where the kitchen is.

Upstairs an ensuite in the loft bedroom would be great. There's plenty of space for it.

@AutumnComfort thanks for the helpful reply. I was thinking this too! :)

Why on earth are you buying this property Op? Genuine question

Depends on your budget really. I’d not want a toilet off the dining room. Maybe have a kitchen diner where the dining room is, and convert most of the existing kitchen to a utility with a toilet off that.

First floor is OK, but top floor could have an en suite.

Could use smallest bedroom for an en-suite and perhaps dressing room.

So I have the same first floor layout. We are planning to swap the tiny bathroom with the third bedroom in order to gain a bath.

Then turn the old bathroom into a dressing room. We are not knocking through to bedroom as newly decorated but you could easily do that here.

I'd turn the smaller bedroom into an en-suite for the bedroom next to it and open the kitchen out into the dining room to make a lovely big living space.
I'd also try and relocate the downstairs toilet to under the stairs or in that area. Shouldn't be a big issue as it is near plumbing for the kitchen. If you opened the kitchen out and re-jigged, you could make a neat spot for a toilet.

And downstairs I would take our the downstairs loo from the random corner and reposition under the stairs, where the current kitchen is, possibly making big enough to serve as a utility also.

Then knock the back wall the the kitchen out to open up the space across the conservatory using this as dining space. Kitchen would be repositioned round the walls where downstairs loo currently is, possibly with utility or island if space.

Casual seating/corner sofa across the wall between dining room/kitchen and lounge, creating a large sociable entertaining space. Lounge remains as cosy TV/reading room.

I would also rather have a utility with an adjacent downstairs W/C instead of a conservatory.

I think the downstairs loo is quite handy, when I had a big garden we had a loo in a similar place which you could use without having to take off the gardening boots. It is not ‘ off the dining room’ , it is part of the conservatory extension. (I would be interested to know how it fits into the soil system though, as it is a long way from the original first floor bathroom.)

Its hard to know how much usable space there is in the loft conversion, judging from the position of the ?Velux windows? . If you could get the water up there , you could move the hot water cylinder into it so you would have extra space on the first floor . You could have a luxurious bathroom up there amongst the eaves ( and the washing machine.)

I’d want to know where the bathroom was originally, if there was one? Or if this is an early Victorian, then the ‘original bathroom’ wouldn’t exist…

And there is a cupboard in the upstairs bathroom - is that a boiler cupboard?

Am I looking at this correctly or does the kitchen not have a window at present? I couldn’t use a kitchen without a window. Definitely more suitable for a loo and laundry.

Oh we have a very similar floor plan with 4 bedrooms and no annexe (see attached photo). The last owners put a cupboard of an en-suite in the master on the middle floor but the shower is stuck on molten hot and we can't use jt. We're still struggling with planning and financing a change but our initial thoughts are to put an en-suite in the loft. We're in the loft at the moment because we hope to fix the en-suite first. It's made us realise how much of a pain it will be for guests to traipse downstairs in the middle of the night for a wee. DH loves the idea of an en-suite but I'm tempted to get rid so we can increase the size of the main bathroom.

Needs more loos

I don’t think you need more loos if it’s just you in there for now, but I would decide if this is an investment for a few years or a home you will enjoy for a long time, because my advice would different.

however assuming you are developing this to live in- I’d move the kitchen along the dining room wall, getting rid of the corner loo. What is now the kitchen, I’d put in a shower room and toilet, plus a small utility.

upstairs, you want a bath. Options of making the bedroom next to the shower room smaller to allow for this, or move the sink on to the wall against the bedroom, pull that cupboard out and that should give you enough space for a bath with a shower above.

hope that makes sense. Be aware moving the downstairs loo will be expensive though as moving toilets is disproportionately expensive compared to other projects - see also moving where your electric oven is in relation to your fuse box - so these should only be shifted if it’s part of a bigger change.

Does this make sense?

A separate utility is essential. I wouldn't like having to go through the dining room from the hallway to get to the kitchen area. The flow doesn't work at all for me so a lot of work would be needed to the ground floor.

Actually my design is wrong, the door to the shower room should be off the utility, so you have the utility leading to the shower room, giving 2 doors between your kitchen-diner and the loo.

…-and I’d have the dining table in the conservatory area and a small sofa at the window that’s currently next to the loo that will now by the kitchen area.

The downstairs layout is weird, with the loo off the dining room, but I can't figure out (yet) a better place for it. Presumably it's been put in for the outside 'bedroom'. I'd consider making a large dining/kitchen/lounge and turning current kitchen into a pantry/utility with a loo on the back of it.

Upstairs, take cupboard out of bathroom, put bath in. Use small bed as dressing room, but don't knock walls out, you don't want to lose resale value.

In loft I'd add a shower room.

It's obviously a 3 ved that someone has turned into a 4 plus garden room. I'd be considering if the house feels too top heavy, ie, too many bedrooms gor living space.