Modern bungalow layouts.

matthew91822

Greymug said:

I see really 2 options here:

Option A gives you a decent 2 bedroom bungalow
- Bedroom 3 becomes a living room.
- You tear down that monstrosity called conservatory because all conservatories are pure garbage.

Option B gives you a nice 1 bedroom bungalow
- You tear down the conservatory because all conservatories are pure garbage.
- Kitchen becomes the bathroom (who are this savages that deem acceptable to have a bathroom with no windows?)
- Bedroom 2 gains space from moving the bathroom and becomes a nicely sized living room
- Bedroom 3 and dining room become a nice and open kitchen/dining area

Again, lots of work for not a big return. At the end of the day you always end up with a small bungalow.

Here's the RM link so you can enjoy the conservatory. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96569236

Slinky

Mgman1965 said:

This for sale near me.

My almost perfect layout, wish I could afford it, £375,000.

Curious as to why you think this is a perfect layout? Theres a lot of very mean spaces on the right hand side.

koalakoala

I wondered that too!  Kitchen miles from the dining room, only one bathroom?

markin

koalakoala said:

I wondered that too!  Kitchen miles from the dining room, only one bathroom?

Bed 2 would make a good kitchen/diner, Do many people still use a separate diner apart from at Xmas?

Woolsery

We completely reconfigured our bungalow. With many you can knock down walls with impunity, provided you have the time, the cash and don't mind chaos. I think we spent £100k, but it would have been more if we'd not done a lot ourselves. It's not worth going to such lengths without good reasons and ours was that we couldn't find a property within budget with really nice land. Bad land and a poor situation is much harder to fix than a naff building; in fact it's often impossible.

It's difficult to get light into the middle of some bungalows and that was our biggest worry with design/extension. Friends had 4 or 5 sun tubes, but we weren't convinced and neither were buyers when they came to sell. In the end we went into the attached garage rather than build an extra bit on, which has worked out OK.

I'm relatively old, but there are times when I'd still prefer a house. Going up and down stairs keeps you able to to do steps if there's nothing basically wrong and I have to do some exercises as there aren't any steps here anywhere.

BikingBud

How about this?

Proposed layout enables flexibility, share overall space differently, likely flip office and adults bedroom, keeps kids away at far side of house with own bathroom. 

Point being if you can build from fresh then you are not stymied by poor design from the outset.  

Slinky

Now if that was me, I'd swap the main bedroom/study area with the garage, keeping all the bedrooms together. I don't know why you'd want a bedroom opening off from the dining area.

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BikingBud said:

How about this?

Proposed layout enables flexibility, share overall space differently, likely flip office and adults bedroom, keeps kids away at far side of house with own bathroom. 

Point being if you can build from fresh then you are not stymied by poor design from the outset.  

There is no door between the kitchen and livingroom, so sound will travel. You will probably find it hard to hear the TV when someone is doing the washing up or cooking. That's a very common flaw in British houses.

Does the carport have a roof? Nice to be able to get in and out without getting wet, and also keeps the car cool in the summer. The width looks okay but check you can open the doors fully. Modern cars are often fairly wide.

Only other thing that springs to mind is where are you going to put your coat and shoes when you come in? It's hard to tell how much room there is by the front door. On the same note, think about where your utilities are going to come in. Broadband and phone if you still have one of those, you need somewhere to put the equipment. Water too, if you ever think you might want water softening.

Generally speaking though that's a nice layout. Makes decent use of the space and creates a nice garden at the back.

BikingBud

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BikingBud said:

How about this?

Proposed layout enables flexibility, share overall space differently, likely flip office and adults bedroom, keeps kids away at far side of house with own bathroom. 

Point being if you can build from fresh then you are not stymied by poor design from the outset.  

There is no door between the kitchen and livingroom, so sound will travel. You will probably find it hard to hear the TV when someone is doing the washing up or cooking. That's a very common flaw in British houses.

Does the carport have a roof? Nice to be able to get in and out without getting wet, and also keeps the car cool in the summer. The width looks okay but check you can open the doors fully. Modern cars are often fairly wide.

Only other thing that springs to mind is where are you going to put your coat and shoes when you come in? It's hard to tell how much room there is by the front door. On the same note, think about where your utilities are going to come in. Broadband and phone if you still have one of those, you need somewhere to put the equipment. Water too, if you ever think you might want water softening.

Generally speaking though that's a nice layout. Makes decent use of the space and creates a nice garden at the back.

Watch the TV in the Buro but there is more to life than watching TV and sharing the cooking might be the social occasion that some want. 

Don't you put the dishwasher on overnight?

Place appropriate storage facilities in the HWR.

Utilities coming in?  It sounds like you think people have never built a house with a "different" layout before.

Get over the fact that labels are only a guide.

And perhaps pay more attention to the fact that the rooms are labelled in German!

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BikingBud said:

[Deleted User] said:

BikingBud said:

How about this?

Proposed layout enables flexibility, share overall space differently, likely flip office and adults bedroom, keeps kids away at far side of house with own bathroom. 

Point being if you can build from fresh then you are not stymied by poor design from the outset.  

There is no door between the kitchen and livingroom, so sound will travel. You will probably find it hard to hear the TV when someone is doing the washing up or cooking. That's a very common flaw in British houses.

Does the carport have a roof? Nice to be able to get in and out without getting wet, and also keeps the car cool in the summer. The width looks okay but check you can open the doors fully. Modern cars are often fairly wide.

Only other thing that springs to mind is where are you going to put your coat and shoes when you come in? It's hard to tell how much room there is by the front door. On the same note, think about where your utilities are going to come in. Broadband and phone if you still have one of those, you need somewhere to put the equipment. Water too, if you ever think you might want water softening.

Generally speaking though that's a nice layout. Makes decent use of the space and creates a nice garden at the back.

Watch the TV in the Buro but there is more to life than watching TV and sharing the cooking might be the social occasion that some want. 

Don't you put the dishwasher on overnight?

Place appropriate storage facilities in the HWR.

Utilities coming in?  It sounds like you think people have never built a house with a "different" layout before.

Get over the fact that labels are only a guide.

And perhaps pay more attention to the fact that the rooms are labelled in German!

This is why do many houses are rubbish - people don't think about or dismiss the details!

The kitchen noise is a huge issue. "Social occasion"!