Losing a bedroom for bathroom

GiGi85

We’ve just bought a house very similar to this layout 5 Bedrooms, family bathroom as per floor plan and a shower room on the top floor. At the moment we feel the family bathroom is a little small and we’re thinking of converting the back bedroom to a bathroom and turning the current bathroom into a office to give us a bigger family bathroom. Has anyone done this?  We’d obviously be loosing a bedroom so
worried about loosing value but I also feel that a 4/5 bedroom house should have a decent sized bathroom. 

would love to hear people’s thoughts
to help us decide. We’ve got a two year old and plan to have at least one more, we also plan to be here for 7/8 more years. 

GarretC

Plan on doing similar with a 4 bed we're sale agreed on. 3 good sized bedrooms, but one tiny bedroom and one tiny bathroom besides each other. Want to knock through and make one big family bathroom.

zagubov

Don't know what floor-plan you're seeing. For a four-bed house what you might be better off doing is trying to fit an under-stairs toilet-shower room or small wet room on the ground floor.
And upstairs, for practicality, does a big bathroom make more sense than a separate bathroom and WC? 

zoemk12

Also buying a 4 bed with downstairs cloak, tiny upstairs bath and en-suite in loft conversion. I’d like to lose small bedroom to make a lovely big bathroom, free standing bath etc. OH thinks the resale value will be better if it’s still a four bed, (he probably right)! 

AnotherJoe

Bear with this ramble ..... Ive just been through a house buying process looking for a move from the exact position where i was ,so i was looking for something similar to the 3 bed house i was in. 

So i ended up looking at 3 ,4 and 5 bed houses as i was looking more for position than house type. Ended up in a 4 bed which i dont need but it had most everything else i wanted.

And in all the houses i looked at both online and visits, there was a  huge overlap in price between 4 and 5 beds (and some 3)

So, whilst the usual mantra is that removing a bedroom loses value i dont think that will necessarily be the case in yours.

You might well find, when you come to sell, you have a very attractive 4 bed which outweighs a less good 5 bed about which the only good thing is the 5th bedroom.

Plus you'll have had the benefit of that extra large bathroom you want for 7 or 8 years at least.

So, short version, go for it.

purplebutterfly

We're buying a 4 bed with a downstairs toilet but a comedically small upstairs bathroom.  It has a bath, sink and toilet crammed in to a tiny room right next to the small 4th bedroom.  

If we ever have the money, we're definitely turning the 4th bedroom into an extended bathroom.  The current size of it is just bizarre compared to the rest of the house.  

Greymug

I'd rather have a 4 bedroom house with a big nice bathroom than a 5 bedroom house with a small bathroom.

Not many people actually need 5 bedrooms and the bigger families who really do need 5 bedrooms will discard your property anyways because of the lack of bathrooms.

Convert a bedroom to a bathroom, do it up nice and with classy style, and you'll never lose value.

AdrianC

GiGi85 said:

We’d obviously be loosing a bedroom so worried about loosing value but I also feel that a 4/5 bedroom house should have a decent sized bathroom. 

Houses are NEVER priced as simply as "£x/bedroom". Yes, bedroom count is one thing that affects the value... but it's far from the only thing.

Lousy bathroom provision is definitely a big down-value factor. You may well add value by converting a bedroom to a bathroom.

julicorn

I'm with @AnotherJoe on this one. Currently looking at minimum 3 bed houses, lots of them mid terrace, and there is often either 2 double bedrooms and a decent sized bathroom on the first floor (+ an attic room, so 3 bed), or the first floor has 2 double bedrooms plus another tiny bedroom and an even smaller bathroom (+ attic room, so 4 bed). They seem to go for the same sort of price, and I'd personally much prefer the former (there's only so much you can do with a small bedroom, and tiny bathrooms are just annoying.) 

Looby_Lou

We bought a five bedroom house with a tiny bathroom.  It was so small that the door hit the bath when it opened, and the loo was tucked behind the door.  It was a nightmare to get to the loo in a hurry!  We changed the smallest bedroom into a nice sized bathroom and changed the original bathroom into an ensuite shower room.  We felt that we wouldn't lose value as the house was so much more practical for a family with the changes we made.

GiGi85

Thanks every one for your comments. It won’t let me add a picture but the layout is very similar to the 1st floor layout of these properties

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/sold-prices/floorplans/property-67837425.html

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/sold-prices/floorplans/property-77584605.html

we’d be looking to do what I think they’ve done here but instead of keeping a toilet we’d just make it into a office. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/71479008#/floorplan?activePlan=1