Inspiration for a house I am thinking of buying

JustinTime19

Hi

I am contemplating purchasing a property with a similar layout to below. I'd like to extend the upstairs bathroom, and open up the downstairs up to integrate the kitchen with the dining room. I am trying to decide whether to keep the downstairs toilet and relocate it, or use it as living area.

Wondered what other peoples thoughts are, cost is obviously a factor as I appreciate some of the walls will be load bearing etc.

Thanks

comeandgo

I would never consider a house that has a toilet coming directly off of living space so I would get rid of it .

lookstraightahead

Can you put the loo under the stairs?

I like open plan which I have. So definitely combine kitchen and dining room.

do you need a bigger bathroom upstairs? 

MikeJXE

The toilet could go under the stairs

Are you sure that's the correct plan ? the outside back wall 1st floor doesn't sit on what might be load bearing walls below 

Which way to they joists run 

ProDave

Upstairs bathroom should be easy to enlarge at the expense of reducing the adjacent bedroom, I have seen it done before.

It looks like the kitchen is a single storey extension so widening the opening to the dining room is a much more complex undertaking widening an opening it a supporting wall that was almost certainly originally the outside wall.

dannim12345

If it was me and money no object, I would put the toilet under the stairs (maybe incorporate the window too). Block up the lounge so it was a separate room and then Open up the kitchen and dinning room. 

The bathroom wall upstairs could be moved over but only as fair as the window in the next door bedroom without changing that (if even possible). 

hazyjo

I'd just lose the door at the end of the hall, and build a wall on the left, basically from behind the downstairs loo with a door on the left into the dining room. Saying it's 13 odd feet isn't fooling anyone, it might as well be 8' square with a longer hallway leading to the loo.

Definitely wouldn't lose the downstairs loo! Unless you can fit it into the cupboard (as suggested).

Wouldn't want to make those small bedrooms any smaller. Would rejig the bathroom. A corner shower would work better.

AFF8879

comeandgo said:

I would never consider a house that has a toilet coming directly off of living space so I would get rid of it .

Likewise I and many others would never consider a house that didn’t have a downstairs loo, so you’ll never suit everyone I guess 

Doozergirl

dannim12345 said:

If it was me and money no object, I would put the toilet under the stairs (maybe incorporate the window too). Block up the lounge so it was a separate room and then Open up the kitchen and dinning room. 

The bathroom wall upstairs could be moved over but only as fair as the window in the next door bedroom without changing that (if even possible). 

I'd do the same downstairs but I wouldn't make the bathroom bigger by compromising any of the bedrooms.  

The bathroom is big enough for a bath with a shower over, so I'd spend money on a decent refit. 

Ramouth

The bathroom into the bedroom bit would be fairly simple - I even wonder if the wardrobe wall is the original extent of the bathroom?  

The downstairs work would be more difficult.  As others have said it looks like the wall separating the WC and kitchen is the original external wall which would need significant support.  You would need to retain a downstairs loo somewhere for building regs and you may also find that there is a soil pipe somewhere on the original external wall which would be difficult to move (I would assume somewhere in line with the two existing WCs).  

While everything you want to do is feasible, it may prove quite costly.  This may not be the house for you.

jonnydeppiwish!

MikeJXE said:

The toilet could go under the stairs

Are you sure that's the correct plan ? the outside back wall 1st floor doesn't sit on what might be load bearing walls below 

Which way to they joists run 

Looks like there a ground floor rear extension so the first floor would sit on a steel.

Toilet under the stairs, but I think you’ll lose too much room in the back bedroom if you take more than 200mm out of it