Floor plan help

[Silverstarfishes]

Please help! Ideally I’d put another storey on this but financially not do-able for a couple years. We need 3 bedrooms, at least one office for two to share, in the meantime. Would be downsizing (till the second storey added) from 4 bedrooms, an office each, a large kitchen/diner, lounge, sun room, and 3 WCs, 2 en-suites. We love the area and want to make it work but I can’t figure a temp workable floor plan.

If its temporary, then I am assuming you don't want to be knocking walls down? Plus if you rejig it now, without thinking about what your will do when you put another story on then you might have to undo all the work you have done.
In which case, you don't have a lot of choices because there are onky 4 rooms plus a kitchen and you need 3 bedrooms and an office. So you will have to use the rooms for those options.

You might be able to put one desk into the hallway outside bedroom 1? But that still leaves you with a second office to find.

There is a lot of hallway which seems a bit over the top. Maybe you could move the door to bed 3 so that it opens near the front door and then open the kitchen up into that coridoor to make it bigger. Doesn't help with the extra room though but it might give you enough space for a sofa in the kitchen.

Can you not just work in the bedroom or kitchen temporarily?

Or living room

Put an office in the garden.

Agree with the others / the only missing space is your office space - so living room or bedroom or hallway - looks like a cupboard in the centra hall? That could be used with pull out desks?

I agree with @Pompomdog , leave the house as it is for now , and buy a garden room to use as an office

Yeah I can’t see how having two desks inside the house will work and with the DC running about. Office pod is probably best then.
Any other suggestions on how to maximise the space till we can afford the extra story and even then where would we put the staircase? I am absolutely awful at envisioning!

First go at a floor plan ( though I think you’ll need to call the architect/ structural engineer )

It would help to know when the desks are being used, DC age and childcare set up (are they in school? Nursery? Or home all day)

How many Dc and can they share a room ?

I agree that if you intend to add a floor in a couple of years then you really don’t want to spend too much right now.

could kids share until you do upstairs? if they could I’d have the 2 bedrooms on the left hand side. Then I’d partition the front part of the dining room as an office and open up the rest of the space as a kitchen/dining/living space

Would converting the loft space be a runner? Instead of waiting for a few years to add another storey? That + office pod = the space you need at a much lower cost than adding another storey on.

It's what I'd look into first, but maybe the roof space is not suitable, or you just don't want to or can't for other reasons.

DC are 3 and 14, so can’t share. DH is very tall so was worried about head height but there is scope for a loft conversion, I guess that’d be a lot cheaper too? The front door is south facing and I often feel quite claustrophobic so would like as much light as possible.

@Silverstarfishes My neighbour has one with a two big dormers. The houses are all different on the road, hers is (was!) a bungalow with a big footprint, so her loft conversion is massive. Two beds and a bathroom between plus so much storage space I'm well envious! But I don't need any extra space myself, I can't keep up with what I have which is enough for my needs!

Our houses face North to the front so her dormers are at the back facing south, but you can orientate them however you wish, subject to planning regs.

Definitely, without a doubt much more economical to do than adding another complete storey. Get some quotes maybe?

A loft conversion would not be a cheap temporary solution.

But loads can be done with dormer windows for a permanent solution.

Are you confident that you can get planning permission for a second storey?

For now I would go for fitting 2 desks in your bedroom, the biggest. It is a big room, and you can use the cupboards in the inner hall as wardrobe space. Maximise under bed storage.

Or a garden office which may be useful in the long term anyway.

Get a reputable loft conversion company to tell you what is possible loft wise.

Otherwise, Personally I would get an architect to design any full 2nd storey option.