Does number of bedrooms really matter?
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When I spoke to potton they said that I could create another room on top of the garden room, although he didn't have a detail of foundations he didn't seem to think the extra weight would be a problem.
The room by guessing would be as follow:
Rooms 3 and 4 knocked together, leaving a 1m wide corridor from landing which would then access the new bedroom by the jack and Jill suite (obviously would lose that ensuite). Bedroom 3 and 4 would become one room which would be approx 5m x 3.5m so space for a small ensuite in there now?
Only the left dormer would stay and another would be put on the west side to add more light to room 3/4. The right dormer would also have to go and a window would have to be put on the east side of the house for bedroom 2.
But surely the shape of the existing garden room would be odd as a bedroom? Maybe inside would be ok but I think the whole thing would look like a turret of some sort. Is there any way the top if built in timber could have an overhang on each of those shaped sides? Making it square and then make the bottom square by cladding it out (obviously the inside would have to still be that shape iykwim).
I've got a few builder mates so will try and speak to them (which isn't easy). But have any of you guys got any ideas on how I can basically make 4 decent bedrooms without having to do the original plan of knocking down the garden room and doing a big costly 2 story extension.
Edited by m3jappa on Wednesday 23 November 20:02
At least you're putting in enough bathrooms! A lot of people seem to forget them, or are trying to push bedroom count as high as possible. You don't need to go mad like some of those mid-2000s builds where you can pick any random door in the property and there's a 50% chance of it having a toilet behind it, but a lot of ambitious conversions fail to add much value because they forget that a family with the relatives over want to enjoy their weekend, not spend most of it stuck in a queue for the single family bathroom in their 4/5 bedroom house.
(The '50s-style loo and sink in a cupboard doesn't cut it, it really needs to be a shower room at least)
As well as small rooms, I think this is another big reason why you often see 5/6 bedroom houses struggling to get much above the upper end of the 3/4 bedroom market in some areas: unless they have an appropriate number of bathrooms, they look more like HMOs or student houses than family homes.
(The '50s-style loo and sink in a cupboard doesn't cut it, it really needs to be a shower room at least)
As well as small rooms, I think this is another big reason why you often see 5/6 bedroom houses struggling to get much above the upper end of the 3/4 bedroom market in some areas: unless they have an appropriate number of bathrooms, they look more like HMOs or student houses than family homes.
You're lucky, our 4th 'bedroom' is 2.5x2m!
When I was younger my parents had a traditional 3bed semi, so 2 of the bedrooms were rather larger, with the 3rd bedroom next to useless. I remember having a single bed and a small wardrobe, and that was all you could fit in there. Looking back it was messed up, I was the older child by 3yrs, yet I had the box room whilst my younger bros was a good 5x5m
When I was younger my parents had a traditional 3bed semi, so 2 of the bedrooms were rather larger, with the 3rd bedroom next to useless. I remember having a single bed and a small wardrobe, and that was all you could fit in there. Looking back it was messed up, I was the older child by 3yrs, yet I had the box room whilst my younger bros was a good 5x5m
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