Help me choose a floorplan

[MalcolmMoo]

So we’re looking at remodelling our bungalow to get more space by converting a garage and small extension. I’ve been given two initial floorplans from our architect and I wanted to know what people think?

Note: plan B has an en-suite I personally think this makes the bedroom too small so thinking of making it into a cupboard instead. We’d still have two bathrooms which is the priority.

Our requirements are:

• 3 double bedrooms (or one a large single)
• Two bathrooms/shower rooms, don’t mind if one is an ensuite
• utility room
• lounge
• big enough kitchen diner to have some seating too

Be good to hear thoughts and pros and cons on each which I may not have thought of. I’m really stumped in which I prefer as both have pros and cons.

I like plan A but worry about the bedroom being joined to living space. We also get a smaller lounge.

My worry with Plan B is that the shower room seems a bit disconnected to the rest of the house - I’m wondering if having it off the utility would be better as well?

this is literally the first plans we’ve seen so plenty of changes can be made.

Now with floorplans!

I prefer plan B, but on that plan you have 2 showers and 1 bath. On plane A you have 1 shower and one bath. How many bathrooms do you need?
if you have a decent utility room, do you need a linen cupboard. If you got rid of that the bathroom could be bigger and have a seperate shower in there

Thanks for replying so happy with one bathroom and one shower room. Hence the en-suite I’m happy to lose for cupboard space.

The linen cupboard currently has the hot water tank in and extending the bathroom would just give us a little corner type space so not sure if it’s worth it or not. Or how easy it would be to move the hot water tank? But I agree if we could extend into that it would make a nice big bathroom, I think it’ll depend on cost.

Don’t like B , one of the bathrooms ( the third) is only accessible through the kitchen. Do you have to have an ensuite? Because the ‘ensuite’ could be accessed from the hall ( and would be smaller,) so you would have a bigger bedroom.

But B seems to be bigger overall, has it extended into the garage? It looks like one of those houses where you can see what the appeal was on the plan until it was built, and then it just lacks coherence and structure.

PS where’s the soil pipe? Because the loos are very seperate when they are normally close. Don’t have a macerator.

B ‘feels bigger’ just purely looking at it on paper, but I wouldn’t like a shower room that walks out into the kitchen - who would ever use that?

Thanks all so I don’t like the shower room walking into the kitchen. We currently have a door in the gap between linen cupboard and utility/shower room so I’d either keep that or potentially enter it off the utility. It’s actually in a really useful location for us as we do a lot of outdoors muddy things so having one near the back door is a big plus for us.

Soil pipe is where the middle bathroom is, there’s also a lot of plumbing already around where the proposed utility/shower room is. I think soil pipe would be a bigger problem for the en-suite but I’m 99% sure we’d rather have a big wardrobe there than en-suite anyway.

I also don’t want the en-suite to be a bathroom off the hall as it just seems odd having two bathroom opposite eachother? Or maybe I’m just being silly? I’d rather it was an en-suite.

What’s your family set up. Young children, teenagers coming in late, shift workers etc? That would impact my choice

So we’ve got a one year old atm, plan on one more child and liked to live here a good chunk of time 10-15 years hopefully!

In which case I would go for B but I would consider a door to the bedrooms to block sound from the kitchen area, if you are hosting etc
If you had teenagers I would have gone for A so it’s quieter for them rolling in late!

Yes completely agree, there is one there now I think architect removed it for the light but I think if we put one in with some glass in it’ll let some light in still :) there’s a few places I think our architect got carried away removing doors 😆