new layout for 3 bed bungalow.

vic_sf49

If every bedroom has an en-suite, do you really need the traditional family bathroom?

Plan 1 - scrap the 'bathroom' and extend that rear bedroom into a larger room with en-suite, and have that as your master......I'm assuming that'd look out onto your garden at the back and may be quieter / less overlooked etc.

Plan 2 - Keep everything as is, but get rid of the en-suite and wc from the front bedroom. The wc could go in the utility room if you still needed that in addition to a family bathroom.

Plan 3 - If the front and back bedrooms are just for guests, then there's enough space for a double bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers and bedside tables.

getmore4less

Do sleeping visitors and day visitors have to have seperate facilities? if the orangry is going to be a main living space then haveing facilities at that end(where the bathroom is makes sence

A cloak room for coats etc can be handy or just a decent hall space with a full high storage/cloak cupboard can work.

What about making the front room a secondary visitor room or

make the front room a bigger master and have a jack/jill shared bathroom for the two visitor bedrooms.


Whats the planned overnight guest likley to be.

getmore4less

Or another option living room at the back open out onto the garden and move the master to the living room space.

missbiggles1

dobymicks wrote: »

Thanks all for the really helpful suggestions.
This is for a couple just coming up to 60.

Here is the current layout, the walls are modular so can very easily be re-configured with no internal supporting walls.

The reason for the second en-suite is because the largest bedroom is the middle one, so that would be best as the master .
If the front bedroom did not have en-suite then visitors would need to walk down the main hall to get a shower.

We prefer to keep the separate WC for visitors.

Thank you.

Is that a problem?

teddysmum

I'm beginning to think that we live in a slum, having a three bedroom semi with just a bathroom and no ensuites or separate toilets.

We have managed fine, even when our two sons lived at home, though a downstairs toilet would be nice, now we are in our sixties. It's even less effort moving from rooms to bathroom in a bungalow ,so I would prefer a bathroom (possibly a separate toilet) and no ensuites, thus giving more bedroom space.

Doozergirl

On a building point - do you have the drainage set up to cope with that distribution of bathrooms? I thought it was the current layout.

You may have to install new drainage outside to go to the sewer to cope with the fall required for the WC at the front. no one wants a Saniflow.

Vampgirl

dobymicks wrote: »

The reason for the second en-suite is because the largest bedroom is the middle one, so that would be best as the master .
If the front bedroom did not have en-suite then visitors would need to walk down the main hall to get a shower.

We prefer to keep the separate WC for visitors.

Starting from the bottom of the plan:
- remove the separate WC - this will make that bedroom much bigger and it becomes the master
- keep the ensuite to the master but make it bigger by taking some space from the 2nd ensuite
- the other ensuite becomes the separate WC - make it smaller and access is from the hallway
- bathroom and bedrooms 2 and 3 to remain the same - they can use the family bathroom whose door is right next to the bedroom doors

UKSBD

Make the bottom bedroom the main one by moving the dividing wall up.


You can then use main bathroom for the other 2 rooms.


Move the WC in to where the middle ensuite is but make it a lot narrower.

agrinnall

I've managed to reach 56 years of age and never owned or lived in a property with an en-suite without it causing any serious problems. I'd get rid of the WC and expand the size of bedroom 2 (perhaps making it the main bedroom). Then make the ES for bedroom 2 into a WC for general use, and turn the ES in bedroom 1 into a shower room for general use.

neneromanova

Any chance of a picture of the front of the property?