How can I make a third bedroom?

Strapped

If you want all 3 beds upstairs then imo the way to do it would be to have the stairs accending along the wall between kitchen and lounge/diner (from left to right in diagram). Reach top of stairs where SC is. Door to left to bed2, and still room to make a corridor to bed 1 and create another bed on the landing. Access from lounge/diner to kitchen on right downstairs. It doesn't cost that much to move stairs, certainly less than an extra storey conversion.

Putting the bathroom upstairs and convert the existing bathroom, as already suggested, is likely the better option though. Although look carefully at how cold that 3rd downstairs bedroom could end up being.

If you had the money to make the existing 1 storey extension to 2 storeys then you could get 3 beds and the bathroom upstairs and have a playroom or study downstairs.

Sandstone

Sorry if I'm missing something, but why not just put in a wall bi-secting the the lounge/diner? Then Bedroom 3 can be where the old lounge was, and your dining area is reduced to the area near the stairs?
It's a good size, especially if you can take out the USSC?

...what's a USSC?

puppypants

Under stairs storage cupboard I would imagine"

picklepick

Sandstone wrote: »

Sorry if I'm missing something, but why not just put in a wall bi-secting the the lounge/diner? Then Bedroom 3 can be where the old lounge was, and your dining area is reduced to the area near the stairs?
It's a good size, especially if you can take out the USSC?

...what's a USSC?

So you have to walk through the bedroom every time you go in and out the front door?
USSC = Under stairs storage cupboard.

kmmr

There must be a way - are you ok to reduce the size of either room? And I see there is no window on the back wall - could one be created there? Are you ok to end up with non-rectangular rooms?

scottishblondie

If you really want to see if this is possible, get some proper measurements and draw your own floor plan to scale. IME the estate agents rarely get it right!

Fire_Fox

According to Google
Width of standard staircase: 860mm
Building regs minimum width of corridor: as wide as the stairs
Width of standard single bed: 900mm

Total 2620mm leaving 880mm for space along the side of the bed, for the door to open, for the partition wall and bannister. Not sure if this is building regs but councils seem to be insisting on minimum single bedroom size of 6.5 or 7 square metres.

Sandstone

picklepick wrote: »

So you have to walk through the bedroom every time you go in and out the front door?
USSC = Under stairs storage cupboard.

Ah, thanks.
I've just realised that I confused the ground floor and first floor. I didn't realise the front door was there.
Thanks again.