Change in the living room layout

ric1982

I take I dont need building reg or any other permissions from gov?

gzoom

ric1982 said:

So the Dining room in the layout is the current living room (sofa and tv on the wall). The lounge is the lounge space (the dining is in the kitchen which is saperate). The current lounge is not doing much which is the reason to covert it to a 4th bed room (not officially but in practice) .......

.....Would this new layout have any negative effect on the property value ? We have been quoated 2.5K for the job, does it sounds reasonable (outside london)?

So technically you will have the number of bedrooms as our house which we have just spent 18 months and ridiculous sum of ££££ on renovating, 4 bedroom bungalow .

Personally I think rather worry about future value, focus on making the house work for you. I presume the new bedroom would need to be accessed via the living room/lounge? How would that actually in reality, it would mean you have a public and private space essentially right next to each other.....

£2.5k for any kind of building work seems reasonable, just make sure the quote includes plastering and putting right any disruption to the rest of the rooms.

maman

If it's the typical original layout of this type of property, I think there would have been a door from the hall that could be reinstated so the new bedroom/office space would not have to be accessed from the lounge. 

SootySweep1

Hi

In terms of now you should do what works / is needed for you and your family.

In terms of future saleability, I'd be thinking about the house overall and the amount of living space it would have.

If you have 4 bedrooms you'd be thinking about 5 people presuming a couple plus 3 children. So would your living space accommodate 5 people plus possibly guests ?

Also think about bathroom facilities, do you have a downstairs loo or would the occupant of the downstairs bedroom need to go upstairs ?

Jen