Floorplan advice

[Skinnymartini]

I am a single mother with 2 children. I would appreciate advice on making an additional (5th) bedroom in a house I am buying. You can only see 3 bedrooms in the images since I havent included an image of a small bedroom in the loft. Options-

1. Convert the en suite bath and the dressing room to a 5th bedroom. Make a smaller en suite elsewhere in the bedroom - i dont need a bath tub anyway.
2. Convert / extend the utility on the ground floor into a small bedroom. but that is the only access to the (small) garden. a ground floor bedroom might help a few years down the line when my mother (70 years old now) visits.

What would you do? Thank you.

The loft has a bathroom but the loft isn't in the floorplan, why? Presumably there's a room there too, so can't you just use that as the guest bedroom?

If it’s a study your after could you use the dead space in the hall, stud walls etc and block off both doors and open another nearer front door

@MikeRafone there won't be a window in the room you have drawn in the floorplan.
@Hayliebells currently the loft bedroom is the smallest in area - best suited for a single bedroom or study.and I would also avoid guests (some elderly) climbing 2 floors of stairs from the ground floor.

To others who have asked- I would plan to stay here about 10 to 12 years , all going well.

Then you have the loft and your guests have the first floor en-suite.

In fact could one of your dcs have the loft, and you use the rear bedroom as study/spare room (nice and near the bathroom!)

How old are your kids? My teen dd would love her own bathroom and would take the loft room in a heartbeat!

Kids are 12 and 7.
@Bruisername yes i will move the older one to the loft. however, still leaves me needing a room as a study- will make do with one of the other bedrooms and figure when i have guests, i guess.

On that basis I would put my study and guest room together for now and then live in the house for a bit and see how it all flows and how you live in it. You might find a solution presents itself more easily

That's what I would do.

The master bedroom is huge so you could usually work from a study/guest room combo but have a small desk in your bedroom for when you have guests.