Help me carve out a family bathroom!

[notanothernvr]

Currently looking at a house which only has a (pretty sad) downstairs bathroom. Ideally we want to knock it down to make a kitchen diner downstairs instead. We need the four bedrooms on Floor 1 and 2 as we have 3 kids. How feasible would it be to get a family bathroom on the first floor?! I'm terrible with evisaging these things and just can't see how it would work. Any ideas?

And you split the front bedroom into two which would be really straightforward and quite cheap. And gives you two bedrooms around 12ft x 7ft - plenty big enough.

You aren't allowed to remove a ground floor toilet any more because of building regulations so you would at the very least need to keep that although you could reclaim the rest of the space.

Yes I would merge utility and kitchen and then have a small shower room and utility in existing bathroom

Would there be space to continue either the wall to the right of bedroom 1 through bedroom 2 or the room to the right of bedroom 3 through bedroom 4, so basically 1 becomes the same size as 2 or 3 becomes the same size as 4? Then make a small lobby at the front of the bit you've cut off, to give bedroom access one side and bathroom straight on?

Or if you need the bathroom over the kitchen and utility for water access, turn 3 or 4 into a bathroom and divide 1 or 2? I guess though you wouldn't ideally want the whole of 3 or 4 as a bathroom while 2 kids' bedrooms are only half of 1 or 2?

I’d choose a different house tbh. If they’re selling up cheaply it tells you something. a house with four bedrooms and only one downstairs bathroom would never work as you’re talking about 5/6 people and one toilet?! Compromises would be too big (losing bedroom space, sharing rooms or spending ££££ on extension)