What to do with a small back of the house room?

9 years ago

Hi all I would really appreciate some good advise as our builders are due in soon and I cannot decide on what to go with z room that was a drab single room in a guest house. It is at the back of the house , off the corridor. Next door is the bathroom. My thoughts as we are taking away the back house wall and rebuilding it .. Are to put long windows in.. Take away the door and open it out to the ceiling. Coming off the corridor I was going to curve the wall inwards and get a long window put into it which lows more light into the hall way.. I was then thinking of using it as a funky office space but really not sure how to accomplish that.... Any ideas or completely alternative suggestions?

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hayleydaniels
9 years ago
Can you post some picture so we can see exactly what you're describing? You'll get a lot more responses with pictures....
Jane Harling
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9 years ago
This is the room... Believe me this is an old house and the refurb is on the way so as they say" look past what's there now" it's connected to a corridor and in front of it is the front if the house with porch and large windows. I would love to make this a front to back look but it is below a road at the back and just looks into a yard! The views are magnificent at the front as we over look the sea ! I'm so stool on ideas. To the right is the bathroom to the left we are building a utility room... My initial thoughts were that I would like it to be an extension of the hall.. Help!
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HI -- gross635 -- Your right to some degree but you can't move the main floor bath to the other side because then that interfers with the floor plan on the second floor. Would not work . I would have loved to turn the whole plan around but it won't work in this case. Added note to what I posted before is to get rid of anywalls you don't need and also not every room has to have a door. Like the one on the lounge and the one at the end of the hall. I would open the lounge up by not having the walls on the entrance hall . As for a closet , there is space in front of the set back powder room for some coat hooks etc. I also question the fact of , if the lounge is really needed. Everything could have been shifted to the front and the kitchen set back , then that would have made a larger dining/familyroom area . But that would have ruined the resale value . So I think moving the bathrooms was the lest and best for this plan. One question I have , is this an English plan ?, because the English love putting doors on every room ?And usually the doors swing the wrong way.
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Jane Harling
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9 years ago
Looking to the front with the described room to the back
Jane Harling
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9 years ago
Looking down the hallway
grammaunicorn
9 years ago
If it is an old house it probably has a small bath, have you thought of making it part of the bath so you have a lux spa like bath to relax in!

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