Please show on the plan where the street is. And where you have built the pool. You explain you want to extend to the northeast. But this appears to be where your front door is?

Thanks for your reply Dreamer. Have shown in yellow idea to gain bedroom & office & extend into carport. Office with glass doors to outside & internal to retain sight lines. Hope that makes it clearer.

what is the distance from the south side of the house to the boundaries on the south (driveway width?) and from the side of the current master bedroom (ignoring the existing carport) to the north boundary, how far is the pool from the back wall of the house (not the spa room) and from the back fence, do you want to include a carport or garage in the new plan, is the spa room moveable? and is the verandah under the main roof or does it have a separate lower roof?..photos showing roof from every direction would help and please re post the plan in sections to make the writing easier to read

Hi. Can you post some external pics so we can see levels and access points

Thanks for your interest. Here are some hopefully better plans.

Full Plan

Top Half

Bottom Half

oklouise the spa room will go. The verandah and carport are under the current roof. The roof is in three sections including small roof over spa room. I will try to get photos of angles of roof. The house is level but the lounge room has two steps down.

Wow! Thanks for your work oklouise. I love the idea of carport/storage/courtyard. Also had never thought of the potentially self contained front section. What a clever idea! I think the kitchen is positioned well but I’d still like to open up the back more. The current WIR & en-suite are so dark & block off such beautiful light & air flow we could achieve. Maybe the spa room becomes semi enclosed deck. We’d like a deck for bbq’s. Would probably swap dining & family as need a wall for a t.v and dining table in bay window would be nice. Do you think a European laundry could run across the middle wall where you have drawn lounge? Thanks again

all depends on budget but problem with using the old carport is that it's really too narrow to use for anything except a kitchen and it would need new floor, walls windows etc so i'm wondering if, instead of changing the carport space to an internal room, the old carport could be better used as an alfresco with access to pool area and front courtyard and aim to have the new kitchen across the back of the house and minimise changes to everything except the old ens and wiw...sometimes we get stuck trying to keep original plumbing at the cost of a better floorplan so will try some other ideas for you to consider

something like this? having a deck means that there could be level access to the new dining room and/or laundry porch with steps down outside but that would mean that the new laundry ceiling and roof connections would be an issue while stepping down could have the new laundry roof tucked under the old roof and grass or gravel paving would be cheaper than decking

What about bumping out behind the new carport to create a new bedroom and courtyard, freeing up back of house for lounge.

Kate, where is your front door and how do you access the new bedroom?

Thanks oklouise for your new plan & for your input Kate. I think the carport for deck with bbq is ideal. Wondering if I sacrifice West bedroom at back as son would have new bedroom from lounge at front of house. Then could create laundry in corner & wi pantry & create kitchen in front incorporating spa room. Would I have enough room for small dining area & family room? Doable? Could also grab some space from front porch near entry as it sits under existing roof line & currently pretty dark so we don’t really use the space. Thanks

do you mean to include a kitchen, pantry, laundry, dining area and family room within the existing building (including the spa room) or add an extension plus the old master bed and west bedroom in the new spaces?..maybe you could draw a rough sketch of your idea and i can try and reproduce it to scale..btw is the spa room floor at the same height as inside the house and what are all the floors built out of?

I’d move the existing Master to present kitchen and west bedroom to present lounge. Would love to fit laundry, kitchen with wi pantry dining & family all in space denoted in red on plan. Dotted line extra space which could be garnered. Use existing carport for deck. All would be within current footprint.
Flooring- floorboards in bedrooms & hall. Tile in en-suite & slate in spa room. Floorboards & slate same level - en-suite tiles @4cm higher.

Just to clarify that carport behind house is gone. There is another adjoining current master in line with pool at rear of block. Existing tiled roof over carport.

i mean the structure of the floor ie a concrete slab on the ground or a timber framed floor with crawl space underneath not the decorative surface of timber or slate or tiles and please post a site plan showing the "extra master in line with pool" with dimensions and distances from boundaries, pool and back of house and how do you use that space and does it include a bathroom? and extending into the front porch may be less cost effective than extending into a new space at the rear but will test some ideas for you but what you are suggesting isn't what i would expect to be able to achieve on a tight budget

Oklouise, I too double checked last post by Kerry, there is no other master. Kerry Is just clarifying the carport next to master, under main roof. Wording was a bit confusing when read quickly.

another variation without any extensions except for the new carport, deck (which needs sun screening from late afternoon sunshine) and enclosing part of the front porch to create a study, hobby room or bed 4

Thank you oklouise I really like this plan. I had never thought to create 2 bedrooms from the current kitchen! I love the master bedroom set up - very decadent. My preference is for deck running along back of house as well. The hobby room could serve as our office/guest bed - love it. I’d probably switch the laundry & pantry so I could access path outside. Btw the house is on stumps with concrete verandah & concrete slab spa room.

the wide opening between the study and family room is to have a line of sight from front to back but if you wanted to use the room as a bedroom you could have a door from the hallway opposite the bathroom and i deliberately kept the laundry in the centre of the house to avoid adding another outside door that would also need a porch and steps, avoid losing laundry bench space and keep dirty washing away from food preparation.....so much more convenient to walk straight out the new back door and the verandah/deck can be as big as you like