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Bedroom Renovating Design Dilemma

Master bedroom, WIR and en-suite design

last year

Hello Everyone, We have a lounge room with a lot of wasted space. We have decided to build into the space and move the laundry to create a Master bedroom. We have a plan but I am not sure the configuration of the en-suite and WIR is the best use of space. I have attached the existing plan and our proposed alteration. Does anyone have any alternate design ideas?

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oklouise

last year

last modified: last year

reluctant to lose the convenience of outside access to a toilet my suggestion sacrifices a little space off the lounge and bedroom to keep the extra toilet and use the original laundry space for a bigger ensuite with separate toilet and double vanities, the new extension makes a more spacious wiw with only standard doorway openings to the new rooms but the ideal outside door for the laundry will depend on the location of the drying area and you may decide that a western door or no outside door (and walk through the verandah?) could both add more counter space to the laundry and, much as i like the gable roof for the extension, it would be interesting to obtain a comparative quote for a simple skillion roof (and raked ceilings for the new laundry and wiw) that may save a lot of extra roof structure that doesn't add anything to the inside of the new rooms or streetscape and could be much cheaper..

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oklouise
last year
can you post the rest of the original plans including dimensions of all the original rooms (including kitchen and entry etc) and identify which part of the new master suite and laundry is an extension and what new rooms are part of the original house? what is the length and width of the new family room after you use some of the space for the new master bedroom as the dimensions don't appear to be correct...where is the front and back yard and any good and bad views, do you and visitors come in the "entry" at the side or the doors off the verandah? and adding furniture would help understand best location for new doors but we need more accurate dimensions to make a scaled plan with furniture
Mad House
Original Author
last year

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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Mad House
Original Author
last year

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
last year
There'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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MB Design & Drafting
last year
Robe and ensuite are ok, I do see an issue with Laundry though.

Relocate the outside glazed door to the western end so you can have joinery all along the southern wall. Unless the door has to go there and can't be anywhere else.

Where is the bed to be located in main bedroom, I'd have the double doors opening outwards.
Kate
last year
Have you considered knocking the extension off and starting afresh with a straight extension of original footprint?
Mad House
Original Author
last year
Yes, but the cost is too high, with my kids soon onto to high school I want to keep my mortgage lower.
oklouise
last year
last modified: last year
just noticed that my suggested plan in recent post had a fault...the new lounge would be 6m x 5.3m
Lorraine Cobcroft
3 months ago
I really like oklouise's version. I would always try to avoid walking thru the robe to the ensuite, and the separate toilet is nice. Plus keeping the toilet that is accessed from outside is definitely better. I would move the laundry door to make a longer bench if it were my house. Otherwise, I think that is a great solution.
Kate
3 months ago
Old post
siriuskey
3 months ago
Would love to see what changes you ended up making

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