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Renovating Design Dilemma

Help needed on design layout

3 years ago

Hi all,

We recently bought a house which we want to renovate and we need some help/advice on how best to approach it (without breaking the bank!!!).

It's basically a 2 storey house, but all bedrooms and living are on first floor with double garage and store on ground floor. Both levels are not connected which we feel is a waste as the ground floor area has a lot of potential. So you access the entry door (which is on first floor) by external steps. We feel in order to get the best use out of the space in the ground floor we need to create an internal stairs from GF to FF and convert some of the space down here to usable rooms.

Aside from that, we want to allow for an ensuite in master bedroom but still maintain a 4 bed house with additional rumpus.

We looked at converting all of the ground floor garage to rooms/rumpus and build garage externally but we feel at a cost of about $50 to build the garage it would fast eat into our budget.

I've attached the existing plans as well as our proposed and would really appreciate any help on layout possibilities. We want to use the space to its full potential.

Thanks for your time,

Dee

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Kate
3 years ago
Dee that’s a lot of work. What is your budget? R u really happy to reduce garage to a single for a 4-bed house?
What is the constraint on the left side of ground floor?
Dee
Original Author
3 years ago
Hi Kate. Yes it is a lot of work isn't it, I think we may be over thinking it. The left hand side (to left of existing store) is unusable as it's built into the ground here (site slopes down from here). While it may be used for storage, it probably couldn't be used for much else :(
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Original Author
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based on lots of assumed measurements my suggestion has four bedrooms and a study, retains the original garage, has the downstairs rumpus, bathroom, laundry and storage and has a straight flight of stairs but i've removed the external stairs in favour of an entry porch downstairs and deeper balcony upstairs with access from master and living areas... there's a laundry shute from the family bathroom to the new laundry and depending how you want to use the space there should be a sink, fridge and storage for drinks in teh rumpus and the windows and sliding doors at the back need to be decided on site and Solar Skylight and extra ventilation will be ideal in the downstairs windowless rooms
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Thanks so much oklouise. Some great food for thought here and will definitely go through it over the weekend and make some decisions about layout. I think keeping the double garage is a good idea alright. Thanks again

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