Floor plan help for loft conversion

[AllTheCakes]

Can any one help me work out the best way to use the space on my awkwardly shaped house please?

I would like to put a master bedroom on the new floor, with a walk in wardrobe, dressing area and ensuite. DH and I often get ready at different times, so it would be good to put the dressing area and ensuite together to minimise us disrupting each other.

Then a second additional bedroom / study. Space permitting, I would also like a small utility area to house a washing machine and dryer. There is enough space to return the stairs on top of the existing one.

Any suggestions welcome.

To clarify, are you putting an additional floor above the one in that floorplan? Will it have exactly the same area or less because of the eaves of the roof?

That’s right, this is the existing floor and we will build on top of it. Several builders said there is plenty of space for the stairs to return on top of the existing ones, so we won’t need to lose anything from the existing floor. I’m not sure how much we will lose tor the eaves though.

Is your house detatched or semi-detached? (Wondering if there's a side with no eaves).

I'd do en suite above bathroom and utility above ensuite so that plumbing is simple, entrance to laundry through current bed 4. Second room above existing master, then dressing above bed 2. The space between dressing room and ensuite is an entry lobby area then the rest is the bedroom. Upper hallway is a bit further left than the existing one.

I’d make bed 4 into the laundry so yo7 don’t have to carry everything up all the stairs. Then put your new master bed suite above bed 2 with bathroom above the family bathroom. And your second bedroom above bed 1. But it all depends on how low the eaves are and where you can have dormer windows.

It is a semi, attached along the wall where the stairs run. The builders had suggested going for a double dormer to maximise the head height.

I hadn’t considered using bedroom 4 as a laundry room, that was going to be my study, but I can see the kids laundry is a lot more than ours so it might make sense to rethink that. I would need to factor in a third small study on the top floor though.

Surely bedroom 4 will need to be sacrificed to allow access to the new staircase? Could still use it as a utility but it will be smaller. Would still enclose it if so to reduce noise.

I think you could get away with a single dorma conversion on the top diagonal of your drawing. Copy paste bedroom 1 to the floor above to replace bedroom 4 lost to the stairs. Then make the new master a rectangle above bedroom 2 and 3 with new windows in the forms with bathroom and dressing room against the partywall. If the party wall has an eaves pitch then you could leave it as a feature in the dressing room and bathroom and just have skylights for light.

Building regulations are quite strict on the space you need for the stairs. Bedroom four is definitely the best option for the utility in my opinion but maybe its worth talking to a designer with such a big project - we used home tales for ours.

Thank you. Home Tales are local to us so I will have a look.

I'm make bedroom 4 your walk in wardrobe and move the door so it's off your bedroom. Block up the wall from bedroom 3 into the room with no windows and extend the bathroom space into it to encorporate a laundry.
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Make bedroom 3 the master bedroom and use the windowless room as a walk-in wardrobe. Then block up the wall between the ensuite and bedroom 1 and knock through from bedroom 4 to incorporate laundry space in that bathroom.