Master bedroom, WIR and en-suite design
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oklouise
4 years agoMad House
4 years ago
This is the existing plan. We are planning to steal space from a previous add on, leaving the kids bedrooms at the front of the house. This means that the master bedroom will open onto the back yard and we will move the laundry to the side of the house where we have 2.9 metres to the fence. It is a 1970 Bungalow but the lounge is an addition that is 9.9m x 5.33 and we just don't use all that space now that the boys are getting older.
After cutting into the lounge room the new dimensions should be 6.46m x 5.33 (that's with my poor measuring skills).
Currently Bedroom 1 on this plan is used as the Master bedroom.
The Kitchen has previously been renovated so currently planning to leave that as is due to budget restraints.
To begin with we had a much grander plan but after some quotes I am scaling it back as I don't currently want to commit all our funds into a house.
I originally wanted to move the family bathroom but currently leaving it at this stage and instead planning a kids area/entertainment area being built into the carport area.
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This was the full plan. I don't want to touch the bathroom as I am going to put that money into build in storage in the bedrooms. The kitchen and dining room were a renovation when we first moved in pre-kids, it was never going to be our forever home but we love the location and the kids preferred high school is across the road. So now I am trying to make the most out of what we have.
I am now trying to leave the front original part of the house as is, it gives my boys there own space and in a 75 year old house it can be very pricy to start cutting into things.
siriuskey
4 years agoThere's a lot of wasted space at the end of the entrance passage way, it also messes with the kitchen dining
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4 years agooklouise
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agojust noticed that my suggested plan in recent post had a fault...the new lounge would be 6m x 5.3m
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