Would a two way bathroom be acceptable? That is, a bathroom which is accessible directly from Bedroom 1 (presumably the main bedroom based on its size) and the hallway?

Otherwise, you'd have to sacrifice room elsewhere to make an ensuite. You could try turning the study into a very small bathroom, but the plumbing costs might be high. Otherwise, expand Bedroom 3 into the study and install a new bathroom beside the existing bathroom to serve as the "main" bathroom.

Even though you have a second bathroom beside the laundry, I don't think that location is going to be appealing to buyers if you need to sell, so a true second bathroom within the main area of the house would be necessary.

you could also start fresh ie. knock down the wall between the toilet and bathroom ..remove the bath tub

it will then give you two smaller bathrooms with a walk in shower vanity and toilet for both bathrooms

my green bathroom is roughly 1.9m by 2m

https://www.houzz.com.au/discussions/my-bathrooms-renovation-dsvw-vd~1174718

1/ then remove the robe so you can go in from your bedroom

2/ for bedroom 3 I'd flip the door to the other wall ie. entry from hallway and block that doorway to give you more room to split the bathroom into 2.

I'd also turn the dining room into a kitchen and use the kitchen as a living room ie your second living area as it's a waste to have a big kitchen when you really need a bigger living area

that way you can incorporate a study nook in that big area

then your study can be used as part of bedroom 3..I'd turn bedroom 3 into your master by knocking down wall to the study..making the room bigger for a WIR it also allows you to add more room to your 2 bathrooms

I have done some work in paint application but not sure if this is whats best. I have decided to not have ensuite, block the wall between bed 1 and bed 2, combine the bathroom and toilet, switch location of kitchen, add pantry, study nook, remove wall between current kitchen and dining for open plan, and glass sliding doors along back wall to verandah.

What do you think?

you haven't improved much ..

1/ wall between bedroom 1 and 2 (great)

2/ bathroom not great as now you don't have a separate toilet and no ensuite either

3/ switching kitchen over doesn't achieve much costly as plumbing issues you can still have that design leaving the kitchen where it is and having an island bench ie galley kitchen

you can square off that dining area to be your pantry for the kitchen ie draw line down so wall matches with kitchen wall

4/ using the study as pantry is waste of space I'd make your kitchen/ family bigger

5/ you can also knock down that wall between living and dining and have just the fire place there ..so it's one opened space

What about bricking in the front area of bedroom 2. You can keep the windows on the 'entry side' of bed 2 so it has light/window. Also, I'm confused as to how you get into the kitchen? Is it through the dining room double doors (which appear to open on to a bench???)

After many houses with and without an en suite, we are in hopefully our last house - and we are renovating to NOT have an en suite. As long as there are two toilets and two showers we're happy. We decided long ago that we preferred not to have someone showering, and worse toiletting, feet from the bed! Also, unless you are blessed with LOTS of space, an en suite always seems a compromise on what you would really like in a bathroom. Finally we are having a large airy and luxurious bathroom :)

Hey agar_murat,

I like where you have moved the kitchen.

The house has small bedrooms and unnecessary circulation space, so my main suggestion is to extend bedroom 3 and the study into the corridor.

It might be a good idea to draw your furniture in plan so you can see if it fits and where you might want more or less space.

I would build an ensuite in the gap between the main bedroom and the garage, opening the side wall of the bedroom for a doorway. Shower one end, toilet the other with a narrow vanity in the middle where the door opens. You may have to take down the brick wall and build a stud wall to make enough room. Or you could open a corridor through there and have the ensuite on the back of the garage.

Build a master suite on a second floor. Move the main toilet into the main bathroom...you may have to move the vanity and put the staircase to second floor where the toilet was.

Hey agar_murat,

Here's some more options:

Hey agar_murat, I'm glad you like my suggestions. Good luck with the project!

I have been doing some more tinkeringand come up with this final design, let me know your thoughts.

Thanks in advance

That floorplan doesn't do justice in terms of scale it is smaller then it seems on the plan.

Also trying to have a ensuite is qoing to make the main bath very small ending up with small main bath and small ensuite. maybe I can add ensuite to the new room being larger then the other room.

I wanted to also create the open plan feel, and keep a seperate space for a second living space.

I felt the old plan was not right having no hallway and half the house was cut of from the other half and the living room being only 4m wide and having to leave space to walk through. Also with the old plan the width between the two living spaces was not that wide making it feel boxed off.

Hope this makes sense.

I have completed the entire plan

Although space is usually the determining factor; in our case, we decided our "en-suite" would be main bathroom size, and the "main bathroom" just big enough for the two kids.