Floor plan reconfiguration advice

Twixty3

D'oh

Just realised the bedroom wont have a window!

Sorry

gwynlas

If the front door cannot be relocated and you are not able to use he conservatory as entrance than you can just swap rooms around to suit yourself

It will mean keepimg your bedroom tidy for visitors to walk through but in many studio flats bed is not screened away. Most visitors are there at your invitation so unlikely to comment

The alternative would bet o build a stud partition wall to create a passgewaybut this would enroach on space

J63320

gwynlas said:

If the front door cannot be relocated and you are not able to use he conservatory as entrance than you can just swap rooms around to suit yourself

It will mean keepimg your bedroom tidy for visitors to walk through but in many studio flats bed is not screened away. Most visitors are there at your invitation so unlikely to comment

The alternative would bet o build a stud partition wall to create a passgewaybut this would enroach on space

Instead of a partition wall you could fix vertical blinds to the ceiling. They would take up hardly any space when closed, and screen the rest of the room from visitors, but you could draw them back when necessary. And they’re removable if you come up with a different solution later on.

kimwp

I think a floor standing divider to create a little corridor from your front door to the back along the side of your bedroom is probably the solution. As someone suggested, you could use an IKEA kallax, or get something built. If it's not too high, it won't be too dark in the "corridor" and it'll create a structure that you can use on both sides for hanging things on (with something like a kallax, you can access the drawers from both sides, so some could be hall storage and some bedroom storage.)

Section62

Twixty3 said:

D'oh

Just realised the bedroom wont have a window!

Sorry

If you could get planning consent for a largish extension at the back then you could make it 'L' shape so the bedroom has a courtyard window - no view, but it would let light in and serve as a means of ventilation, and escape if required.

But it would mean spending a fair amount on the extension, and at the end of the day it would still be a 1-bed ground floor flat.

Removing parts of the original external rear wall is likely to be a non-starter in terms of economics and hassle with the upstairs flat.  And that really limits the options.

Nnenne1

Twixty3 said:

D'oh

Just realised the bedroom wont have a window!

Sorry

I think, it’ll have a window if I did what you said. Kitchen has windows and does bedroom. 

Nnenne1

gwynlas said:

If the front door cannot be relocated and you are not able to use he conservatory as entrance than you can just swap rooms around to suit yourself

It will mean keepimg your bedroom tidy for visitors to walk through but in many studio flats bed is not screened away. Most visitors are there at your invitation so unlikely to comment

The alternative would bet o build a stud partition wall to create a passgewaybut this would enroach on space

I don’t mind having a smaller bedroom if designed well, perhaps, taking space from the current bedroom. I won’t like walking through bedroom to other rooms. 

Nnenne1

Thanks everyone that’s helped me so far. Apparently, upstairs flat owner is nice and would give permission for door entrance to be next to theirs. 

To ask formally, agent wans to see rough plan of this. Anything else I need to be aware of please, should solicitor write it into contract for instance?

Below are videos of the area that needs knocking through, it sounded hollow.  

https://imgur.com/a/i5TPvxc the 3rd video is clearer, if you scroll down.

What are your opinions please, before I start spending money on getting an architect to draw up plans for upstairs. 

Section62

Nnenne1 said:

Thanks everyone that’s helped me so far. Apparently, upstairs flat owner is nice and would give permission for door entrance to be next to theirs. 

To ask formally, agent wans to see rough plan of this. Anything else I need to be aware of please, should solicitor write it into contract for instance?

Below are videos of the area that needs knocking through, it sounded hollow.  

https://imgur.com/a/i5TPvxc the 3rd video is clearer, if you scroll down.

What are your opinions please, before I start spending money on getting an architect to draw up plans for upstairs. 

The ground floor plan for the upstairs flat shows a layout which is different to the ground floor flat's.  This would suggest the (arrowed) wall next to stairs up to the first floor flat (the one you are measuring?) goes into their hall, not to the porch area.  You need to check why the plans have this difference.

Albermarle

Is the flat a leasehold.? If so the freeholder could object to proposed changes, especially if they are quite significant.