any ideas on a potential layout change?

drummer_666

Hello,

I've bought a new house and I'm toying with the idea of changing the layout.

Upstairs I'm turning a tiny room, which has previously been a tiny office and a walk in wardrobe into a toilet, maybe with a shower.

Do you think this would work or would it be too cramped?



The bathroom is downstairs and it's tiny, and as you can see from the layout I've attached at the moment there is wasted space. - the 'corridor' with the garden door. And there's usable space under the stairs too, obviously it's ceiling is slanting, so it lowers as it goes back inline with the stairs.

I can't get my head around a layout change that works, to make use of the space, but which will mean not losing workable kitchen space by moving the garden door.

Does anyone have any ideas?



Measurements
Current bathroom 1.7m x 1.35 m.
Corridor with garden 0.9m wide
Kitchen 3m down the long side x 2.39m

fairy_lights

I'd move the bathroom down to the other end of the kitchen, you'd still have one and a half existing walls where kitchen units can be attached, (plus the new bathroom wall) without getting in the way of any of the doors. It's a bit odd to have a bathroom within a kitchen like that though. Is there no way you can move the main bathroom upstairs, and then put a toilet and sink in the under stairs cupboard and have more free kitchen space?

ellie27

Really weird current layout.


Do you need a downstairs loo? How many bedrooms do you have? If you do need one then I would do as above, just have a toilet/wc understairs. That would allow a better kitchen and doors out to your garden. Do you have garden at back or side? If at back, then doors out to the back.

drummer_666

It's a two bed house, there's no space to move the bathroom upstairs.

The garden is to back and side as it's a corner house

The bathroom isn't within the kitchen, it's next to the kitchen.
It's just there isn't currently a door where the door frame is

mije1983

Could you not sacrifice space in one of the 2 bedrooms? I'm assuming the upstairs footprint is similar to the downstairs?

Making the bathroom bigger is obviously going to impact your kitchen area, even if you move it lengthways along the left hand wall. But then if you do move it, you'd probably want a corridor like you have now otherwise the bathroom will actually be in the kitchen.

drummer_666

Having had a look and measure I don't see that moving the bathroom to the left is going to work, with the pillar in the left lower corner it makes it a nightmare. Plus the window along the wall with the long section of worktop

The bedrooms are not big upstairs. They're both double but ones an ok size double, I thought about putting an ensuite into the bigger bedroom but then it'd lose the large bedroom turning it to fairly small

let me do an upstairs floorplan for you to see

drummer_666

Here is the upstairs layout

Hoploz

Can you move the back door to the back rather than the side - opposite the other door? Then you could extend the bathroom to fill the whole right hand side, Could go under the stairs too perhaps.

You'd lose a short bit of workspace, but would gain a longer wall next to the bathroom to put shelves onto for storage

Do you definitely need the back door?

mije1983

Hoploz wrote: »

Can you move the back door to the back rather than the side - opposite the other door? Then you could extend the bathroom to fill the whole right hand side, Could go under the stairs too perhaps.

Only issue with that would be the bathroom would actually be in the kitchen. Obviously it may not be an issue for the OP but if it's not their forever home they need to think about how any changes may impact resale. Some people may find it a bit strange and off putting.

drummer_666

do you think something like this would work?

drummer_666

mije1983 wrote: »

Only issue with that would be the bathroom would actually be in the kitchen. Obviously it may not be an issue for the OP but if it's not their forever home they need to think about how any changes may impact resale. Some people may find it a bit strange and off putting.

it's not my forever home.
I've renovated 3 houses, flipping them, I've stopped for now and am keeping this one. But in a few years I might turn it into a rental, but can't imagine I'd be living here more than 5 years max

2 of the 3 houses I renovated had bathrooms on the end of the kitchen, and I took out the 'corridors' between the bathrooms and kitchens to extend the kitchen, so there was just a door from kitchen to bathroom. I dont' see anything wrong with that for resale - it's better use of space