Floor Plan

I realised the other day that it may be hard to picture the layout of our house and what walls we have removed etc if you haven't seen it in person, so thought I would share the floor plans, what has been moved and what will be moved. You can see all the before photos here to show the photos of the full house.

Also I love a floor plan, it was my favourite part of house hunting and even now I like to look at listings for houses and look at the floor plans...I'm a weirdo ok...

The floor plan started out when we bought the house as the below (this is from the listing). The blank area next to the room labelled "kitchen/diner" is under the archway in the original "kitchen" and they missed off the door from the living room to the kitchen on here but it went out of the top left of the living room into the hallway.

It generally had a nice flow and plenty of space, but we wanted to adjust the kitchen a bit. The first phase of the wall removal (covered here) was to remove the archway and take the hallway back to just outside the downstairs W.C. None of these are really to scale so excuse the house changing size every time, it has not suddenly got larger!

You can see that we only removed the one wall/archway and shortened another, even though it has made such a difference in the kitchen! 

We do have some plans for further layout changes in the future. The plan for upstairs eventually is to remove the permanent loft ladder and take the door back to its original position for the second bedroom to make it back into a double. It will be a relatively simple demolition job, just removing the partition wall they have put up and moving the door back to the original place. We may remove the cupboard or may keep it for storage in the spare room and just put doors on it...we will see when we start taking down the partition how it looks on its own. 

So at the moment it looks like this upstairs

And it will just change to look like this

Neither are huge changes in layout but it has opened up the kitchen massively and we will hopefully have a good size spare room after that wall is moved too rather than wasted space in a hallway!

Layout wise the upstairs isn't 100% making use of the available space. At the moment the house is a quite large 2 bedroom, but it was originally a 3 bedroom. The bathroom would originally have been the third bedroom, and the bathroom would have been downstairs in the kitchen, so that's why it is such a big room for a bathroom and why we have a really good amount of living space for a 2 bed!

When we were looking at the house we did consider if there would be a way to get a third bedroom back out of the upstairs, as it is two reasonable size doubles, and would have been 3 very good size rooms originally. We probably could by taking down some/most/all of the internal upstairs walls and rearranging the layout so that the bathroom would be somehow moved or made into a smaller bathroom and then two single rooms and a double were made out of the space created. We have seen a house listed for sale nearby that has done this in the same house layout as ours, they have a smaller bathroom (still a full size bath though) with a small additional window put in on the side of the house for this and then a double and 2 single rooms. In our house it would look something like the plan below, where the bathroom would include basically our built in wardrobe in the master bedroom (which is above the stairs) plus stealing some space from the current front bedroom space along that wall above the stairs. The current second bedroom would then be the largest room (we could even steal some space from the third bedroom if it wouldn't be a large enough master) and the bathroom would go back to being the third bedroom. 

There are other configurations and we would need to look at the cost vs what we would actually gain in value of the house, but it is a consideration. Or we could extend at the side...but that's a possible thought for down the line! 

At the moment we are happy with two large rooms rather than 3 smaller ones, but it would be a value adding exercise maybe to be able to sell it on as a 3 bed as it originally was rather than a 2 bed as it is now. Of course we will share all the details if we do ever do any of these plans!