New house plan ideas

[James Adams]

From everything you’ve said, as you sure a Victorian terraced house is for you? I live in one, and there’s only so much you can do, particularly with a tight budget.

[Michael Davis]

Move bathroom into bedroom 4 re plumbing. Turn bathroom into a study. Turn downstairs shower into utility for washing machine and big sized sink

[Mel Green]

We have a the exact same house except the bathroom has a bath under the window (and we don’t have the loft built out). Are you sure you can’t fit a small bath in? We have 2 young kids and have decided to invest in a downstairs renovation with side return and kitchen diner, rather than go up into the loft. Good luck! There is never enough money to do what you really want

[Martin Richard]

Similar house too! You could move the toilet and take out the tiny shower. Then have that be an additional closet. (However that is where we have our stacked washer and dryer)

Also on the first floor we have a tub/shower where your sink + shower is and the toilet and sink on the toilet side.

We also have a door that goes directly into the front room. I bet it’s still there if you want it back.

Finally the hall is small but I got a hall tree and have an additional shoe rack.

[Martin Allport]

I would add an en suite to bedroom two and put a bath in there.

Take out the downstairs toilet but I’d convert the shower into a toilet and utility as it’s just handy for general visitors. Access it from the entrance hallway.

I’d also convert the sunroom/kitchen dining into open plan and rotate the kitchen horizontal across the current sun room (see photo and green line).

Bifolds to the bottom where the kitchen sink currently is for the children to wander in and out

[Lucy Ward]

I would be inclined to lose the downstairs shower and turn that into a laundry room/ cloak room for coats and shoes.

With regard to the family bathroom, you have couple of options you could move the bathroom into the back bedroom and then the bathroom into study/ office space or you could look at the possibility of moving the wall between the bathroom and the bedroom back, making the bathroom bigger to accommodate a bath and then have a smaller guest/ spare bedroom which could double up as an office space for you. We’ve seen a few of our customers do things like this and with a good builder and decorator you’ll have a fantastic space for your family

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[City Locksmiths Newport]

I can’t advise on the layout, but it looks like a typical Victorian terrace so if the plaster is the original lime, it’s best to keep it – it can be repaired even if it’s in pretty bad shape, unlike gypsum plaster. Lime plaster works best with these solid-walled buildings to help manage damp and it costs a flipping arm and a leg to do from scratch.

[Lily Evans]

This is what I can visualise- not to scale

Downstairs- blue marking – remove the bathrooms and make a big open plan kitchen diner with dining table in the sun room. divide the dining room space, to use half as a home office ( entrance from the open plan or existing corridor) and half further divided as a cloak closet to the front and downstairs loo + shower room to the back (entrance from the new study or the front room). Create a new entry into the front sitting room. Upstairs, create a new shower room or just bath in the big bedroom and if possible, on the second floor create an ensuite using the eves area for the sink.

[H Marks]

You could add a separate WC next to the current bathroom (ideally adding a window for ventilation) and install a bath with overhead shower to the existing bathroom. This would probably be the most cost effective way to go, plus when there’s only one family bathroom I think a separate WC is always a practical option. It would be great to squeeze in an additional en-suite into the loft space too, looks like there’s scope to do that.