Yes, we are going to put a toilet in the exisiting bathroom on the left of the floor plan and an en-suite in the master bedroom (space currently marked WIR). There is also a powder room downstairs. Thats why this bank of rooms are redundant.

I see your other post. Is there are reason why you can't make bedroom on left, the master bedroom, using the existing bathroom as an ensuite, just by adding a door. And closing up a door. There would no need to go through the expense of removing bathrooms, just to add another small one, elsewhere.

As per Dreamer, you have a great opportunity to turn the big bathroom and the walk in linen closet into a great master suite. Just change the opening to closet to the left side. You could update the rooms as you wish.

This was my exact thought initially, however the roof lines in this place are bizarre and the downstairs roof ends 2/3 of the way up that bedroom wall. The window on the plan is a high window. Conversely, the centre bedroom has two huge floor to ceiling windows and a beautiful view.... We could add windows to the wall that currently has robes i think but it is a crappy view of a bunch of oversized sheds.... If you have any genius solution for me though I completely would love that room to be the master suite as it’s seperate from The other rooms.

My thoughts exactly. Make a master suite with the big bathroom, then keep the other one as the family bathroom. Much more cost effective, and saves trying to put plumbing into the ceiling space of the downstairs rooms.

I would see if you can enlarge the high window as much as possible. You don't look at the view when your asleep, or when bathing. Use the room with a view as a lounge room.

I’m with others close up part of hall to make entry to new master with wil becoming wir. Or in answer to first question, remove the small rooms and repurpose as a study/ reading area, with low bookcase along mezzanine wall.

Oops still need a toilet and vanity.

Please post some photographs of that room so we can see what is the potential?

And some photos from the outside, please? Dormer may be a possibility

Here is a photo of the room on the left From the outside.

Thanks everyone for all your comments so far. It’s really important to us that the master bedroom has big windows so that us why we have decided to keep it in the middle room and that’s why we’re trying to figure out what to do with the bank of little redundant rooms.

Thanks Kate for your idea of the study area. I had considered it but I’m not sure how practical it is because that area is open to the below living, dining and kitchen so it’s not quiet at all... (plus we already have the study area on the right side if the floor plan, although we are considering making that a fourth bedroom).

Here is an internal view of the area I’m brainstorming ideas for.

Ideas I’ve considered are:

1. Gutting and using the exisiting rooms for storage - cheapest option but seems a waste (we have heaps of storage).

2. Removing the rooms and creating an open study area with built in desks. But as it’s open to below (kitchen, dining, living) it’s noisy.

3. Doing a row of bookshelves all the full wall with a couple of indented window bench seats and some secret storage behind the bookshelves. This could be the most aesthetically appealing but also the most $$$$

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As per kbodman14 suggestion a dormer window may work. I would look into that first, before taking out good infrastructure of your home. The cost to reinstall the bathrooms somewhere else may be greater cost than installing a wonderful dormer window.

Without spoiling what you already have I suggest the folloing which will give you the extra bedroom and per haps the new Rumpus with bedroom off it could be for visiting parents

Thanks everyone for your thoughts!

The exisiting toilet and bathroom in that row would need to be completely gutted and redone if being kept.

We wouldn’t turn any of the bedrooms into rumpus rooms or lounges as we’re short on bedrooms but not on lounge rooms.

I‘ll look into the dormer option. I really don’t think we have the height for it in the ground floor roof but maybe it could work. The house is already very disjointed though so if I’m a bit hesitant to add anything else that looks like a tack on to a pile of unrelated tack-ons...

The other reason we would like to get rid of that bathroom and toilet is acoustics - because of the mezzanine you can gear everything in those rooms as if amplified through the downstairs kitchen, living and dining 😬

Dormer windows are used in upstairs rooms, most newly purchased homes need updating as per your bathrooms its also a more cost effective way to have new bathrooms

Rose, if the noise transfer is bad from the mezzanine floor, to lower floor, you could you install a wall, with a glass window, so it still lets the light in, but noise issue would be less.

ROSE, after taking in all your concerns about views, noise transfer, squashing an ensuite into a WIR, I have come up with this suggestion.
Convert bedroom next to main bedroom into WIR and a full ensuite. This also allows for all plumbing to be installed on outside of home. Study room becomes bedroom. Remove bathroom and that area becomes a study area. Due to noise transfer between up and down stairs, install a full height wall with a glass panel to still allow the light into landing. Hope this helps.

Rose do you mean that noise transfers through the ceiling into the down stairs rooms?

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