Upstairs vs downstairs bathroom.

Tobyemery

Hello all,

Firstly not sure if this is the correct forum area.

But the post is about buying a property and selling.

I’m just wondering if anyone has ever moved a downstairs bathroom at the back of the house and gone upstairs with it replacing the small 3rd bedroom you often get in Victorian terraces in Citys. And have it increase the value or at least not reduce the value by getting rid of the 3rd bedroom. ( which often is a big no no) 

I personally hate the bathroom downstairs at the rear meaning you can’t open the kitchen out to the garden on nice days etc. 

pinkshoes

As the bathroom sticks out further than bedroom 3, does that mean it's a single storey part with nothing above it?

If you're relocating a bathroom, could you not build an extension ABOVE the current bathroom, leaving bedroom 3 as an office which you walk through to access the bathroom? You could also then try and keep a toilet and sink downstairs as well as allowing access to the garden?

Tobyemery

Hi Pink shoes,

Yes it’s a single story currently. I haven’t bought it, just trying to get an idea on how loosing a bedroom or making a bedroom a lot smaller to fit a bathroom upstairs. 

Building above would be the better option but no other houses down the road have this and I think it’s near impossible to get planning for them.

I would plan on removing the bathroom downstairs and replacing with something like the photo, just unsure on whether it would devalue the house loosing a room! 

tizerbelle

At a previous property I moved the bathroom upstairs into bedroom 3.  It suited me to do that. Because I sold at a peak in the market (early 2007) its hard to say what impact it had on selling price and what was just market prices.

I know a few properties of same layout (including current neighbour) who have split Bedroom 2 to make an internal bathroom (no window) and a small bedroom - that could be an option

housebuyer143

A 2 bedroom property has less appeal as a family home than a 3 bed, so it will affect the price because you have less interested people looking at it. 
What impact though is unclear, but 3 beds are be generally worth more than 2.

Mrnkar_2

What we done once in a house was change the downstairs one into a wet room and took a bit of the 3rd bedroom which was quite large to make a bathroom upstairs. House value increased due to there now, as they classed it having 2 bathrooms. A lot of people like that nowadays.

BlueVeranda

I would also consider if there is any option to "retain" a third bedroom by extending into the loft. It would obviously be an additional cost, and more complicated than simply changing the purpose of the current rooms, but may be worth it if the difference in value between 2 bed and 3 bed is big enough.

GDB2222

If you took out the chimney stack, you could make a small shower room/toilet  between bed 1 and bed 2, without losing a lot of space from the bedrooms. 

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster

Many people do this. 

Do what suits you best. 

gwynlas

It all depends on the local market often there are terraces of almost identical houses where this is accepted as the norm. Since you have a corridor to create access the size of the second bedroom is already compromised moving bathroom upstairs would lose bedroom 3. but they are using a reception room as bedroom 4 anyway. Many people would have knocked front and middle rooms together to make large lounge. It is dependent on size of garden whether you could create large kitchen diner at rear maybe creating utility wc near staircase and keeping both ground floor reception rooms.

Albermarle

It probably depends on the area to some extent.
If it was in a more upmarket area, then a downstairs bathroom would be unacceptable to many buyers ( unless they planned to move it).
Whereas as said in a previous post, in an area where it was more commonplace and money was tight, then a third bedroom would be more of an asset.