Any ideas on how to revamp this downstairs?

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Seen a house that interests us, but i would like some ideas on how to re-jig downstairs so it could maybe incorporate a small playroom and utility room.

It has a large entrance with the stairs just in the middle which i think could be moved to make more space downstairs.

missbiggles1

Deleted_User wrote: »

Seen a house that interests us, but i would like some ideas on how to re-jig downstairs so it could maybe incorporate a small playroom and utility room.

It has a large entrance with the stairs just in the middle which i think could be moved to make more space downstairs.

Upstairs i would look to add a en-suite to a main bedroom but any suggestions would be appreciated for downstairs.

That looks like a decent sized kitchen so do you really need a dining area? That looks the obvious place to site a playroom.

If you accessed the stairs from the other side (just up to the turn), it looks as if you could extend the cloakroom to make it into a combined cloakroom and utility room.

G_M

External stairs to 1st floor, releasing the reception for the kids.

AdrianC

Gawd, those stairs are horrible...

Is the downstairs cloakroom particularly important to you?
Is there space to turn the stairs 90deg, along that side wall?

I think your best scope for the second ensuite is going to be rejigging all that upper-right corner of the first floor, moving the stairs along the side wall (with the top at the front of the house), and using the space that leaves from the wardrobe and cupboard. Then, downstairs, if you don't want the cloakroom, rejig that space to be a small utility separated off from the end of the kitchen. Perhaps rejig some of the dining area into the kitchen, and the rest into the living room?

eddddy

What about converting the garage?

The garage seems to be detached from the house by a gap of about 1 metre, but next-door-but-one seems to have enclosed the gap between house and garage. Then you could have a door from the kitchen through to the garage.

And/or put a conservatory on the back of the house for a playroom - off the kitchen (or possibly off the dining area).

mumps

If you have young children, I assume you do if you want a playroom, then those stairs are lethal. I would make sorting the stairs out an absolute priority. I thought for building regs you needed a handrail but maybe I dreamt that.

I'm not sure how big the reception area is but could you make a hall and have the area to the right of the frontdoor as a playroom and the stairs facing you as you come in?

Innys1

AdrianC wrote: »

Gawd, those stairs are horrible...

Is the downstairs cloakroom particularly important to you?
Is there space to turn the stairs 90deg, along that side wall?

I think your best scope for the second ensuite is going to be rejigging all that upper-right corner of the first floor, moving the stairs along the side wall (with the top at the front of the house), and using the space that leaves from the wardrobe and cupboard. Then, downstairs, if you don't want the cloakroom, rejig that space to be a small utility separated off from the end of the kitchen. Perhaps rejig some of the dining area into the kitchen, and the rest into the living room?

How is that going to help?

If the stairs are moved so the top of the stairs is at the top right of the first floor picture, there will need to be a corridor along the front of the first floor on that side to get to the rest of the floor. That corridor is wasted space.

Plus, by moving the stairs onto that wall, the headroom above the stairs will impact on the existing cupboard, stealing precious space from any en-suite.

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Sorry i forgot there was already an suite added so scrap the upstairs bit, it will do with new paint and carpets.

Its downstairs which i would like to change, obviously the stairs are the priority as they are dangerous to me and they take up space.
Its the reception hall which seems to be a vast waste of space. Just can't see in my head how to change it incorporate utility and small playroom?

Or i could make a bedroom upstairs a playroom.

Suppose i could open up dining room and kitchen and make it a large kitchen/diner family room but that hall is bugging me for what seems a total waste of space...

fairy_lights

That's such a hideous and weirdly placed staircase I can't imagine it was put in when the house was built (surely no builder would do that :eek: ) so I'm guessing a previous owner rearranged the layout and put it in themselves. If thats the case, have you had a look at the layout of any of the neighbouring properties for ideas?

AdrianC

fairylights - I thought that, then I looked again at the floorplans. The downstairs is longer than the upstairs. There's obviously some kind of porch going on - the stairs are at the very front of upstairs.

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Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

The front porch is original.

I don't want to link to the OP's potential house without permission but if you look at one of the neighbouring houses in my post above, the frontage is the same (apart from the now linked garage in this neighbouring house).

The OP's house has had the kitchen extended (2 story extension) to match the dining room.

Yep looking at the pics the back does look built on, i just don't see in my head how i could utilize that front hall space (not very good at building) was thinking somehow have the stairs against the wall maybe create a passage and make a room out of the space but not sure???