Ground and first floor layout? Please help!

last year

Hello,
We are adding a side and back extensions to the existing house, but thinking of changing the whole layout of the house, however, not completely happy with the current design. We will be talking to architect again, but would like some more ideas please!

Ground flood:
Would like wider entrance with cupboards. Need to somehow add a guest toilet. We ideally need to keep guest en-suite bedroom. The utility seems quite small, really like the side exit from utility area.
Kitchen/dining area all open space.

First floor:
We have two children and both need “equal” sized bedrooms and probably separate bathrooms.
For the master bedroom - en-suite, plus at least a small walk-in wardrobe.
Not sure if we need a 4th bedroom.

Any ideas of the best layout? Please please help!

Comments (5)

CWD
last year
If you don't need the 4th bedroom downstairs, I'd move the office upstairs to the quietest room and then use the space downstairs for a bigger entrance hallway with storage space - also increase the utility space, probably combining utility with the hallway storage. Having a large utility/bootroom is really useful. Or you could add a downstairs toilet in the current office space too - provide it with the window to the front - but then you're not getting a wider hallway, just better storage off of it.

Ideally, I'd rather make the ensuite shower room into a jack-and-jill type bathroom, with access from the guest bedroom as well as from the hall - removing that small cupboard behind the bedroom door and moving doors a little would work (and move toilet to be on the same wall as sink).

Am not sure whether I'd rather the guest bedroom was the 'formal' lounge though, rather than having to walk all the way through the kitchen, the dining room and the other lounge area to get to it? Upstairs, if you really need a separate bathroom for each kid then I'd add one to the bottom right bedroom, with shower room in the bottom section of the top right bedroom. Middle bottom room gets the family bathroom to themselves, albeit not an ensuite, shared with the top right office.
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i-architect
last year
Hi!

My recommendation is that you get super clear on what space you need to live your best life and then communicate that to your architect so that they can adjust your plans to suit you best.

I have a free Design Your Home Vision Checklist that you can get to help you start on that here: https://www.i-architect.co.uk/dyhvchecklist.html

Best wishes for your home designs!

Jane, i-architect.co.uk
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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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vaivadr
Original Author
last year
Thank you @CWD, very good ideas!
Jonathan
last year
I don’t understand why the planned upstairs rear extension only covers half of the downstairs extension- Surely that means some costly engineering.

Also the house appears to be a semi- will the original house still look like your neighbours. And given this is a big family sized house do you need to be planning a garage space?
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Peek Home Ltd
last year
Hi there,

Whow, you definitely have space to explore other configurations, we have designed a number of house’s recently with ‘Jack and Jill’ bathrooms for kids, could that be an option for you? I can’t tell from your image, does the front lounge have the option to be closed off? Lovely to have the open space but certainly nice to close of the noise at times too!

At Peek Home we ask our homeowner's to think about their ambitions, needs and wants for their home, gain an understanding on how the house will be used and how they want to live in the new space/s.

Feel free to make contact for a second opinion, always happy to help 😊

All the best,

Jaemi

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