Adding a bedroom

EmmaWak

Hello,
We have a 2 bed terraced house at the moment with our upstairs going over a large archway whic means we have 2 large double bedrooms and a large bathroom.

We are exploring the possibilities of making our house a 3 bed, the obvious is to convert the loft but I wondered if anybody had created a 3rd bedroom by dividing the upstairs rooms, thinking of stealing space between our back bedroom and bathroom to make a bedroom in the middle and then putting a window in?

And if anyone has done this what was the cost of doing so?

Many thanks

z1a

We did ours by splitting the large front bedroom into about a 70/30 split to make another room. To do what you want, would that not make 2 very small rooms?

Cost was about £8k, 14 years ago, Lancashire.

EmmaWak

Thank you - due to the archway, it would be phesable to do as we have 2 big rooms over the back - hard to describe really! But if you imagine the archway could fit a car through it and our bathroom goes over it? So I’m thinking we could fit another room?

z1a

If you bathroom is bigger than ours at a bit over 2M wide, then maybe.

Mr.Generous

Done it on the last renovation, luckily the window was already in place so the cost is really very low. A door, skirting, stud walling, plasterboard and plaster. Probably less than £300. A new PVCu window would be between £100 - £200.

z1a

We didn't have a window, so it involved knocking top of front of house down and fitting 2 new windows.

Davesnave

To get a sensible answer to your question, you need to measure-up, decide where the new walls/window will go and then make a plan showing the upper storey of your house with the changes marked. Post a link to that on here using a hosting site like:

https://imgbb.com/

You may have to break the link as a newbie to post it, but someone here will fix it for you.

If that's too hard, then at least say how large this extra room might be and the sizes of the other two.

Otherwise, just carry on listening to people waffling vaguely....like our experience. We took a 5 bedroom bungalow, extended it and ended up with 4 bedrooms!:rotfl:

EmmaWak

Thank you Dave, that would be a good idea - but I have no idea how to do that! I do have an upstairs floor plan though, let’s see if I can work it out 🙈

Davesnave

Doesn't need to be posh. I use squared paper and make one square = 25cm, or whatever. It works!

somethingcorporate

Davesnave wrote: »

Doesn't need to be posh. I use squared paper and make one square = 25cm, or whatever. It works!

If you are any good with computers MS Excel is quite a handy tool. Just set the rows & columns to the same size and away you go.


I did my entire designs for a garage conversion/extension that needed full PP in excel :rotfl: