Anyone have time to look at this floorplan and tell me where you would out a bathroom?

[IlanaK]

We have put an offer in on a maissonete today. It has one bathroom downstairs, but we MUST put a shower room upstairs for it to be livable for us. We can't give up any of the bedrooms as we need them all, but we could give up part of one.

The floorplan is on my profile. Keep in mind that the "front" foor upstairs is not in use as the main entrance to the flat is downstairs. And all the plumbing is at the back of the house we think. There is a flat on the first floor that may have plumbing at the front, but I am not sure about this.

We have a couple of ideas, but would like people to look at it with fresh eyes if possible.

Thanks!

Re mezzanine you could indeed reduce the height of the new shower room and use the extra roof space to put a raised bunk bed area into the 2nd bedroom. The lovely George Clarke did something similar in the Home Show on Ch4 a few weeks ago.

A mezzanine is a really interesting idea. How much head height do you need for a bathroom? And how much for the mezzanine? You are right about the kids - they would so love that.

I was about to say what I'd do - but fatjac did it for me

I'd do exactly the same. Create a space from the back of the main bedroom (nicely above downstairs bathroom) and then incorporate dead hallway into the main bedroom. I reckon that'd be the cheapest and most hassle-fee option. Plus, what you take away from the size of the bedroom you can almost gain back from the corridor. No dead space anywhere and you get another room.

We've done something really similar and we turned the stairs - works really well.

not sure what minimum headheight is now (architect will tell you), but we had that in last house, sunk bath slightly into floorrafters and had shower head coming through the ceiling (looked very posh!) which worked fine.

Just updating this as someone asked about it on another thread. Here is what we decided in the end:

The plan I went with in the end was not one suggested by anyone on here. A relative suggested for me. So, the plan is on my profile still I think - shower room to be put at the back of the largest bedroom. Space behind shower room to be a large walk in closet accessed from the second bedroom. Pipes to come up from kitchen into second bedroom. Second bedroom currently has lots of wardrobes dowb one wall hiding fireplace. Take these out to add space to that room. Bring pipes up near fireplace and hide their run with a built in bookacse thing or box them in. They will run into the new closet which could have a raised floor if need to hide them and then into the back of the shower room. To increase size of small bedroom, move connecting wall further into the second bedroom. Use redundant corrider next to large bedrrom as a walk in closet accessed from that room by adding a partion wall at the end of it. Result: three more balanced sized bedrooms, good storage space, nice shower room centrally accessed from landing/hallway. Ta da!

Now all we need is for our offer to be accepted!