Partition Wall - Splitting one bedroom in to two

npd23

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone could help me please?

I'm have an end of terrace 2 bedroom coach house. The master bedroom is of fair size, 5.25m x 2.94m, but I was looking at putting in a partition wall to create either two small-medium sized room as below:

Room 1: 2.89m x 2.94m
Room 2: 2.36m x 2.07m

Or a medium sized room and a box room/office.

Would this alteration add value to the property or decrease it? Is it better to have a large master bedroom or convert to a three bedroom property? I would undertake the alteration myself.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

marliepanda

npd23 wrote: »

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone could help me please?

I'm have an end of terrace 2 bedroom coach house. The master bedroom is of fair size, 5.25m x 2.94m, but I was looking at putting in a partition wall to create either two small-medium sized room as below:

Room 1: 2.89m x 2.94m
Room 2: 2.36m x 2.07m

Or a medium sized room and a box room/office.

Would this alteration add value to the property or decrease it? Is it better to have a large master bedroom or convert to a three bedroom property? I would undertake the alteration myself.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

I doubt it would make a massive difference value wise as the house footprint is the same, and its a change which is cheaply done/undone.

BrassicWoman

What format would best suit how you are going to use the space?

Fosterdog

It doesn't really affect the value, the house I rented last was a 3 bedroom with the master bedroom split the way you suggest, we bought a house in the same street that still has it as one large bedroom and based on other houses that have been bought and sold in the street with a mix of 2-3 bedrooms depending on whether the room has been split or not the prices differences are negligible and mostly account for condition of the property rather than number of bedrooms.

What we did do when we bought this house was move the central light fitting to one end and added a second to the other end and did the same with the single radiator, moved it from the centre to under one window and added a second under the other window so if we do ever want to split the room there is less work to do. Obviously room size choices would depend on your needs but two medium rooms would make both of them pretty small, either a double bed and no other furniture or single beds with drawers, wardrobe etc. whereas a larger room and a box room would give enough space for a good sized double room and a reasonable sized single room

need_an_answer

You mention the term coach house,lease or freehold?

If lease please check you lease to make sure that you are able to make internal alterations.some leases do not allow splitting of rooms so in doing so you may find you will need to return it to its previous state should you ever wish to sell,therfore only increasing the flexibility for you rather than creating any extra value going forward.


The fact that you are not actually adding square footage possibly wont change resale value just desirability.

HouseBuyer77

marliepanda wrote: »

I doubt it would make a massive difference value wise as the house footprint is the same, and its a change which is cheaply done/undone.

May not be so cheap. You may need to add windows and extra radiators. You'll need a new doorway in an existing wall (or have an awkward access one room through another arrangement). You'll need a new light fitting, a light switch to go with it. You may need extra plug sockets or move existing ones.

Personally I'd say do what's good for you, it's your home. Value wise if you do a bad job of the conversion it may cause problems otherwise it'll just change who's interested (some want a big bedroom others will want a cheap 3 bed and care less about room size).

spadoosh

npd23 wrote: »

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone could help me please?

I'm have an end of terrace 2 bedroom coach house. The master bedroom is of fair size, 5.25m x 2.94m, but I was looking at putting in a partition wall to create either two small-medium sized room as below:

Room 1: 2.89m x 2.94m
Room 2: 2.36m x 2.07m

Or a medium sized room and a box room/office.

Would this alteration add value to the property or decrease it? Is it better to have a large master bedroom or convert to a three bedroom property? I would undertake the alteration myself.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

The larger of the two rooms your making is the same size that my 2 year old daughter occupies (ETA the estate agent called it a box room). Its pretty cramped with a cot, baby change unit (chest of drawers) and a wardrobe.

I can only see you making one comfortable room in to two uncomfortable rooms along with what im guessing is a small enough current second bedroom as it is is only going to be restrictive. If someone wants to live in small rooms let them make that decision, if you want small rooms for your benefit then thats your decision to make, if your trying to make money from anticipating what someone will find desirable i think this is a bad way of doing it.

So youre going to have 1 second bedroom and 2 box rooms. Its an unusual sales pitch.

npd23

BrassicWoman wrote: »

What format would best suit how you are going to use the space?

Most useful for me would be office and slightly larger bedroom. It's just the bedroom is quite big and almost seems like wasted space.

npd23

need_an_answer wrote: »

You mention the term coach house,lease or freehold?

If lease please check you lease to make sure that you are able to make internal alterations.some leases do not allow splitting of rooms so in doing so you may find you will need to return it to its previous state should you ever wish to sell,therfore only increasing the flexibility for you rather than creating any extra value going forward.


The fact that you are not actually adding square footage possibly wont change resale value just desirability.

It's freehold thankfully! Didn't know that not adding m2 means no additional value. Very useful to know!

spadoosh

spadoosh wrote: »

The larger of the two rooms your making is the same size that my 2 year old daughter occupies (ETA the estate agent called it a box room). Its pretty cramped with a cot, baby change unit (chest of drawers) and a wardrobe.

I can only see you making one comfortable room in to two uncomfortable rooms along with what im guessing is a small enough current second bedroom as it is is only going to be restrictive. If someone wants to live in small rooms let them make that decision, if you want small rooms for your benefit then thats your decision to make, if your trying to make money from anticipating what someone will find desirable i think this is a bad way of doing it.

So youre going to have 1 second bedroom and 2 box rooms. Its an unusual sales pitch.

Before the daughter came along it did make an excellent games room though if that helps with an office decision.

npd23

Thanks all! Definitely seems like it's a better decision to leave it as it is.