Convert two bed to three bed?

Taucher

Our house is a two bed. Upstairs has a large bathroom, a very large master bedroom and a fairly large second bedroom. Downstairs has a small entrance hallway, medium sized living room and large-ish kitchen diner.

My wife is convinced we should remodel the upstairs to make it a three bed but Im not convinced it's worth it. Two other house on our road have done the same and they have ended up with an upstairs with two small bedrooms, a medium bedroom and a small bathroom (no room for bath). And the downstairs is still relatively small. 

My opinion is we should spend some of our savings (and not get a mortgage extension) to completely re-do the bathroom, which is in a horrible state (rest of house is nice). 

For context the re-modelled 3 bed sold for £270,000 in 2016 a month after we bought ours (two bed but end terrace with large drive to side) for £245,000. So it feels life our house already may be near the limit for the road?

tacpot12

What is the purpose of adding a third bedroom? If it is just to increase the value of the house when you eventually sell it, I wouldn't bother as the mess and disruption will be significant, and you might never sell the house.

If you know that you will be selling, you need to find out how much the conversion will cost (now that building materials are substantially more expensive) and also how much different it will make today as house prices have risen about 15% in the last 12 months alone. 

EssexExile

Do you need two bedrooms or three?

Rosa_Damascena

Post a floorplan?

Wanderingpomm

I’d build in a really good sized storage space. That is useful and valuable 

goldfinches

Given the very large number of threads started by people on the House Buying, Renting and Selling board and this one about noise nuisance from neighbours a better use of your money might be soundproofing the wall between you and next door. That might turn out to add much more value to your house than any other improvement you could make but it all depends on your circumstances, location, stage of life etc. 

Doozergirl

goldfinches said:

Given the very large number of threads started by people on the House Buying, Renting and Selling board and this one about noise nuisance from neighbours a better use of your money might be soundproofing the wall between you and next door. That might turn out to add much more value to your house than any other improvement you could make but it all depends on your circumstances, location, stage of life etc. 

It's virtually impossible to do without a huge investment.  

OP, do you need three bedrooms?  

phoebe1989seb

Agree with Rosa - the existing floorplan would help 😉

As part of a major reconfiguration of our upstairs layout, we considered adding a third bedroom. In the end we chose to keep a large main bedroom and put in loads of extra storage - in a newly created hallway - instead....

But - ours is a downsize property (we sold a large four bed to move here, and previously we owned a fairly huge six bed) and I think I was struggling to come to terms with having a so much smaller house...equating number of bedrooms to house size, lol! 

We actually have a fairly spacious ground floor for a two bed - it's a quirky property, formerly a mill, 400 years old -so wondered whether with two beds the house was bottom heavy! However, there's only two of us at home now and there's plenty of space for guests if we have them (usually two or three times a year), therefore we concluded it was better to have a good size bedroom for ourselves as well as a decent double for a spare room, than to have three fairly small bedrooms 😉

We also wanted a big bathroom - again, having owned much larger houses spoiled us in this respect 🙄 - and didn't want to compromise on that. This involved reconfiguring the entire upstairs as the existing bathroom had no window (plus the numpty previous owners had placed a stud wall through a chimney breast!).

Our existing layout was really difficult to work with and it took over two years to work out what to do with it (and that's with both of us having design backgrounds - DH in bathrooms and interiors, lol!), but finally we're happy with it as it suits our lifestyle and we've no plans to move for a long time 😃 

It's important to consider how long you intend staying at the property.....