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We’re due to purchase this house shortly.
Its very old fashioned and needs renovating.
We have £70k to remodel.
If anyone has any ideas, I’d be eternally greatful.
We plan to live in it for 6 months and get professional advice. I still cannot help planning.
Side note - the garage is circa 2ft lower than the rest of the ground floor. There’s no access from the room above the garage to the house, it’s via a staircase into the utility.
We’re looking for more open plan living and happy to loose the garage as a garage.
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Its very old fashioned and needs renovating.
We have £70k to remodel.
If anyone has any ideas, I’d be eternally greatful.
We plan to live in it for 6 months and get professional advice. I still cannot help planning.
Side note - the garage is circa 2ft lower than the rest of the ground floor. There’s no access from the room above the garage to the house, it’s via a staircase into the utility.
We’re looking for more open plan living and happy to loose the garage as a garage.
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Edited by Coley88 on Monday 2nd September 21:10
I quite like the layout as it is....& this is PH, why on earth would you want to lose the garage?!
Some decent windows if needed, fresh paint.....how’s the kitchen? Those things could eat £££s alone!
I would suggest getting a master ensuite....perhaps turn the storage space into a jack’n’jill shower room accessible from the room over the garage , with door from master bedroom to corridor which would get access from the house.....
You maybe need to tell the collective what you want to achieve: you are close to buying, you must had some ideas or desires!
We had an orangery style sunroom (9m x 4m with a 7m lantern roof) across the back of ours, makes for a great living space....the garden looks like it warrants such a space.
Some decent windows if needed, fresh paint.....how’s the kitchen? Those things could eat £££s alone!
I would suggest getting a master ensuite....perhaps turn the storage space into a jack’n’jill shower room accessible from the room over the garage , with door from master bedroom to corridor which would get access from the house.....
You maybe need to tell the collective what you want to achieve: you are close to buying, you must had some ideas or desires!
We had an orangery style sunroom (9m x 4m with a 7m lantern roof) across the back of ours, makes for a great living space....the garden looks like it warrants such a space.
Edited by mikeiow on Thursday 27th December 08:47
Personally I'd be looking to remodel the whole 'bathroom/master bedroom/storage area/large room above garage' area.
An en suite to the master is a great idea as is access to the large room above the garage, from the rest of the house. Also consider a walk in wardrobe/dressing room off the master bedroom...
Do you have kids? If so the large room above the garage could be their 'toy/play/kids stuff' room or indeed your 'Man cave' (TV, pool table, beer fridge etc). It could even be turned into a new master bedroom suite with aforementioned en suite and dressing room. That frees up the master to be a decent size bedroom for others and bedroom 4 as a small home office.
I'd keep the garage personally. Can it be subdivided so that a car can go in one bit and maybe a gym (or utility area) in the other?
Downstairs perhaps an open plan kitchen diner? If you do want to lose the garage then this could be a smaller lounge (or snug) and separate gym or utility area.
An en suite to the master is a great idea as is access to the large room above the garage, from the rest of the house. Also consider a walk in wardrobe/dressing room off the master bedroom...
Do you have kids? If so the large room above the garage could be their 'toy/play/kids stuff' room or indeed your 'Man cave' (TV, pool table, beer fridge etc). It could even be turned into a new master bedroom suite with aforementioned en suite and dressing room. That frees up the master to be a decent size bedroom for others and bedroom 4 as a small home office.
I'd keep the garage personally. Can it be subdivided so that a car can go in one bit and maybe a gym (or utility area) in the other?
Downstairs perhaps an open plan kitchen diner? If you do want to lose the garage then this could be a smaller lounge (or snug) and separate gym or utility area.
Edited by oblio on Thursday 27th December 09:11
Edited by oblio on Thursday 27th December 09:11
Just as an alternative...
Don't go open plan, stupid idea
Don't go bifolding anything, chavvy, nasty and s
t
Why bother with ensuite's pointless really, have a downstairs and upstairs, less to clean, less to worry about, we've one where a large landing used to be in the 70's would love to knock it all back out.
Keep nice big simple rooms, with doors.
Keep the separate storage area, brilliant place to go or put stuff.
Don't go open plan, stupid idea
Don't go bifolding anything, chavvy, nasty and s
tWhy bother with ensuite's pointless really, have a downstairs and upstairs, less to clean, less to worry about, we've one where a large landing used to be in the 70's would love to knock it all back out.
Keep nice big simple rooms, with doors.
Keep the separate storage area, brilliant place to go or put stuff.
PositronicRay said:
To make the best of the area I'd be listening to some professionals. I've seen too many badly conceived but fashionable layouts.
6 months living before any decisions is sensible.
We’ll be doing both, can’t help but try to get some ideas down.6 months living before any decisions is sensible.
I’d love to hear more ‘ideas’. Thanks
The house looks too disjointed as it is, and more like two stuck together by what appears to be a large later extension.
It needs centralising, my thoughts would be make the door next to the garage the main entrance instead, and insert a much a larger door/side window combo, open up the garage area into a lower level open plan, front to rear main lounge, play round with opening out the kitchen with the dining room and leading it out into the rear garden, and form an access to upstairs via the gap between the kitchen and existing garage.
Finally as its PH plus a big house like that always need a garage for storage/ potential resale then I would look to make the existing lounge the garage.
Externally its tired and dated, so to the front at least I would be looking to harmonise it, possibly by refacing the walls and roof with a modern look across the entire front to blend it all into one.
Caerleons a lovely spot and it looks like you have a great plot to work with, just my kind of project.
It needs centralising, my thoughts would be make the door next to the garage the main entrance instead, and insert a much a larger door/side window combo, open up the garage area into a lower level open plan, front to rear main lounge, play round with opening out the kitchen with the dining room and leading it out into the rear garden, and form an access to upstairs via the gap between the kitchen and existing garage.
Finally as its PH plus a big house like that always need a garage for storage/ potential resale then I would look to make the existing lounge the garage.
Externally its tired and dated, so to the front at least I would be looking to harmonise it, possibly by refacing the walls and roof with a modern look across the entire front to blend it all into one.
Caerleons a lovely spot and it looks like you have a great plot to work with, just my kind of project.
Edited by PAUL500 on Thursday 27th December 10:03
Coley88 said:
£70k won’t build a new house unfortunately
Not sure it would do all the knocking through etc that you are planning, unless you are doing all the work yourself?New quality kitchen, windows, outside painting could easily eat half of that without even starting to take walls down.....& I seriously would not plan to remove the garage. Unless it is your forever home & you really don't want one, of course!
mikeiow said:
Coley88 said:
£70k won’t build a new house unfortunately
Not sure it would do all the knocking through etc that you are planning, unless you are doing all the work yourself?New quality kitchen, windows, outside painting could easily eat half of that without even starting to take walls down.....& I seriously would not plan to remove the garage. Unless it is your forever home & you really don't want one, of course!
I don’t keep my car in the garage, all I’d use it for is a dumping ground, bikes, mower etc, a decent shed would do all of that.
I have a warehouse for work, so I don’t necessarily need lots of storage for rattan furniture during the winter.
All steel I can have supplied and cut for nothing.
Perhaps it would be easier to build an extension??
Coley88 said:
Whilst I agree in a way.
I don’t keep my car in the garage, all I’d use it for is a dumping ground, bikes, mower etc, a decent shed would do all of that.
I have a warehouse for work, so I don’t necessarily need lots of storage for rattan furniture during the winter.
All steel I can have supplied and cut for nothing.
Perhaps it would be easier to build an extension??
Hey, if you don't want a garage, don't keep it!I don’t keep my car in the garage, all I’d use it for is a dumping ground, bikes, mower etc, a decent shed would do all of that.
I have a warehouse for work, so I don’t necessarily need lots of storage for rattan furniture during the winter.
All steel I can have supplied and cut for nothing.
Perhaps it would be easier to build an extension??
All entirely your call, my best suggestion is to not jump in too fast - live in it a while (which I think you suggested you would), then figure out what you want
Is it a long-term live in jobbie? If not turning for some profit within 2-3 years, then take time to get it exactly how you want it.
I like the upstairs idea to move master over garage & get relatively easy to do en suite plus 'walk-in wardrobe'.
Budget for the plumbing - I assume the garage has zero heating at present, & perhaps not much insulation to outside. If you can raise the level and pop wet UFH that end, I doubt you would regret it.
mikeiow said:
Hey, if you don't want a garage, don't keep it!
All entirely your call, my best suggestion is to not jump in too fast - live in it a while (which I think you suggested you would), then figure out what you want
Is it a long-term live in jobbie? If not turning for some profit within 2-3 years, then take time to get it exactly how you want it.
I like the upstairs idea to move master over garage & get relatively easy to do en suite plus 'walk-in wardrobe'.
Budget for the plumbing - I assume the garage has zero heating at present, & perhaps not much insulation to outside. If you can raise the level and pop wet UFH that end, I doubt you would regret it.
On the heating....it currently has electric heaters throughout (I know), which will certainly have to go. Lucikily here’s a gas feed into the garage which was luckily installed st the time of the extension. All entirely your call, my best suggestion is to not jump in too fast - live in it a while (which I think you suggested you would), then figure out what you want
Is it a long-term live in jobbie? If not turning for some profit within 2-3 years, then take time to get it exactly how you want it.
I like the upstairs idea to move master over garage & get relatively easy to do en suite plus 'walk-in wardrobe'.
Budget for the plumbing - I assume the garage has zero heating at present, & perhaps not much insulation to outside. If you can raise the level and pop wet UFH that end, I doubt you would regret it.
On the en-suite, that’s a good shout, thanks, there’s a toilet below so hopefully the plumbing won’t be too difficult for a wet room
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