WWYD? Walk in wardrobe or fitted? Updated for other layout help too!

NatNat77

Doozergirl said:

You have almost the entire original staircase visible without it eating into the front bedroom at all. 

I can't manipulate drawings on a phone in the bath, but I think you do have room to get the new stairs over the old.  You'd have winders at the bottom so they quickly rise and don't impact on the front bedroom. 

The benefit of moving the stairs allows you to extend the current hallway into the cupboard and part of the bedroom next to it, block of the existing master bedroom door and move it down about, hmm, 2.4 metres, so that you can use the full width at the back of the room for your dressing room.  Ensuite goes next, opposite your new doorway, so you have very little corridor in the bedroom and more room for clothes.  

Next door, the other bedroom gets a wider ensuite.  

I'll try to do you a drawing tomorrow.  My youngest stole my ipad and pen like she keeps trying to commandeer my airpods. 😖

That would be amazing, thank you! I can't quite picture what you're describing so it'd be really helpful to see a drawing! 

Doozergirl

You'd never guess that I do this for a living.  Anyway, this is what 'free' buys you, which is better than nothing, I guess! 😂

It's not to scale - you can work your dressing room and ensuites to be as big as you like, altering the main hallway to suit, if you like.  

The more space in the dressing room, the less you need in the bedroom.  

If I was developing this for my family I'd be tempted to work on getting three bedrooms down the left hand side.  

The existing top left bedroom has space for an ensuite.   It would mean that the extension could then be split into two bedrooms.   No bedroom would be a small one either.  

It would save a hell of a lot of money faffing around upstairs but it also doesn't remove the option for it in future.   

This isn't a small house by any stretch of the imagination.  You don't need to get carried away with every single bedroom being massive.  

There is room downstairs for an office but I'd be tempted to use the area by the utility.  Sliding doors could reveal/hide a proper office desk/printer etc in your planned storage run.  I have a clever idea for that.  

theoretica

If you tweaked doozegirl's design to make a large walk in, and some thought about exact access, it would have scope for a future owner for convert it into another small bedroom or an office as it now has the window.

NatNat77

Loving the drawings! thanks so much for taking the time to do those. I'd absolutely love to put the stairs where you've shown but that would mean cutting into the original loft and hubby has been quite adamant he doesn't want to do that and he's the one doing the work 😬 I might see what he thinks but I'm not sure even my powers of persuasion with him will be enough 😂

Not doing the loft altogether and making an extra bedroom on the left side isn't a bad idea though, I'm only fussed about my bedroom being massive 😂 and it would save a lot of money and faffing around like you say. Unfortunately an ensuite in the front bedroom is a no go as it's exactly where we've just had wardrobes fitted 🙈 but an extra ensuite is a nice to have rather than an essential anyway really. So we have lots to think about!

I would love to see the clever idea for a hidden office 😁

Doozergirl

I knew you'd have put the wardrobes there! 

Doozergirl

Had a rummage on Pinterest as I knew someone would have done similar.  This is very American looking and not a very sophisticated take, but you'll get the principal of it. The office can be 'opened' for work and closed up to reveal something prettier when it's leisure time.  

I'd put shelving above the desk for paperwork and the printer.  

I nearly did something similar in our
house, but I turned what should have been the space into a bar 🥂 at the last minute so I have to work from the sofa and my office stuff goes in some inbuilt furniture without a desk.   😬😂

Doozergirl

Or if it's all behind doors...

NatNat77

Lol, we're also building a bar and office/gym for hubby at the end of the garden! I don't want to work down there though, it's too isolated. 

I like the idea of a hidden office but it would need to be in a room I can close off from the rest of the house due to sensitive meetings I have regularly. But I would definitely look to using something like that if I do use the living room at the front, so I hide it away. I'm sure my wardrobe guy could make me something 😂

The wardrobes had to go in that spot in the front bedroom really as that room has windows on three walls 😂 the third window is tiny but it's at the other end of the wall where you walk in so there wouldn't have been room for more than one wardrobe, but even if there had it would have looked odd in the middle of the wall! I suppose we could have blocked that window up but I just didn't think of it. An ensuite there would have been great though 😁

Next thread will be how to make the front of the house look better!