Worth changing the layout upstairs?

[Reji]

I don't even know where to begin with something like this so any help/advice is appreciated!

The upstairs of this house is a little bit bizarre. It's being sold as a 3/4 bedroom but the 2nd and 3rd upstairs rooms are tiny with bedroom 2 also being an awkward L shape. The images don't show how the eaves also take up a lot of space in them. Bedroom 2 can only fit a single bed underneath the window and bedroom 3 doesn't fit one at all unless you take the door off.

The stairs also leave a very large and awkward box jutting out about half way up the kitchen wall.

I feel like it would cost way too much to sort the stairs and the bedrooms out so that it wouldn't even be worth it.
But if I could somehow rejig the walls upstairs to give 2 & 3 a bit more space (obviously happy to lose some from bedroom 1) it would be a huge improvement.

Would it even be possible?

It's a great area and a nice house other than this.

Is it a dormer bungalow? Could the solution be the roof / window style?

or make bedroom 2 and 3 one room and split the master?

Surely it is not a three bedroom property if you can’t physically fit a single bed in the third room. Does that mean it is overvalued and should in fact be being sold as a two bedroom.

This?

I would turn the bedroom 3 into a bathroom/dressing room.

It's a two bed.

Bedroom 2 is a hallway surely

I agree splitting bedroom 1 seems like the only option then 2 becomes a home office/ dressing room / ensuite for the top part of 1

The stairs are the issue. I'm assuming they dogleg due to head height upstairs. Without seeing internals & heights, it's hard to give alternatives.

I’m not sure it’s possible without moving the stairs. If you did, the lounge is big so could go there and also make the diner better. Then get three decent bedrooms upstairs. Sorry not very good at doing the markup but hopefully enough to give you idea. Could even move en-suite over into remaining space and existing en-suite is office or bathroom for other bedrooms.

@22mumsynet great minds think alike!

Having read my above reply, ot seems short.
But it is a 2 bed, as you can only just get a bed in 1 upstairs bedroom. Personally, if you need 3 beds, I'd look elsewhere.

I imagine they've brought the stairs up like that due to head height. In that case I'd perhaps tag another kittle ensuite in the bag of the existing one and make beds 2 and 3 a larger room.

You could possibly spin the stairs to rise from the dining room, in a straight line, making the 'corridor' wider, but I think they're still going to be poky rooms and I'd imagine expensive as you're going to have to fix the floor above and ceiling below.

You could use the study as a 3rd bedroom.

Essentially, it is going to cost time and a lot of money to make it suitable. You will most likely not recoup any money from that as it is probably overvalued due to it not actually being a three bed house.

Moving stairs is not an easy job ( personal experience) . The suggestions shown would involve cutting beams and that means installing an risk to support the new ceiling structure.

The weirdest thing about the current upstairs is that you can’t access the bathroom without walking through the main bedroom. You could solve this by putting a stud wall along the master bedroom ( extending the hall) The space left beside the bathroom could be doored off for storage.

you have got a bathroom and a decent sized ‘study’ downstairs so maybe swap the study and Bedroom two in function?

RSJ , not risk !