Converting bathroom into 3rd bedroom

kerri_gt

Are you planning to indreas the size of the bathroom you plan to convert into a bedroom? If not it sounds like it will be a very small room given it's described as smaller than the existing single. Aside from the fact a downstairs bathroom would put people off, it sounds like at least two bedrooms are / going to be small, again a potential put off.

Would you be able to manage a loft conversion with en suite? And keep the bathroom upstairs? This would at least keep the double and single existing bedrooms and create an extra bathroom plus decent sized master bedroom.

Owain_Moneysaver

You'll also need planning permission and going from a 2-bed to a 4-bed and losing the garage is probably going to require at least two off-street parking spaces.

vb3d

Thanks everyone.
Reading all your replies I can see it is not a good idea.
The only option left is converting the garage into a third room and a small toilet.
Unfortunately, I cannot convert the loft, its access is from the single room, and the landing upstairs is REALLY small even for a retractable stairs to the loft.

Fire_Fox

Could you build over the garage as well as converting it to living space? Depends on planning policy and foundations. A major overhaul warrants an architect's input, they can often make the seemingly unworkable, workable.

laidbackgjr

I think you can probably make something work, a good architect will come up with solutions to making space work with you. The bigger question for me is whether it would be economically viable, you are probably looking at costs over £50k (depending on where you are in the country and what spec everything is done to that could easily get to £100k), to get close to what you are after plus a lot of disruption for months in the house. How does this compare with the cost difference of buying a new bigger property that was built with a layout that works without having to change so much?