Turning a two bedroom into three
We are turning our two bedroom house into a three bedroom, without extending the footprint too much.
We are happy to bring the area to the left of the kitchen into the floorplan. The exterior up to the wall between the laundry and bathroom is unused space. The house on the opposite side means we need to stay back 1 meter from the boundry on that side.
My husband suggested putting a door from the studio into the garage and our daughter sleep out there but I’m not keen to have one of the kids ’outside’ the main house. (6 and 9 year old girl and boy)
North is to the left of the image.
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oklouise
last yearusing the available space on the northside only allows for a space the size of a narrow verandah that has to have the entry through the laundry and allow an external door to take the washing out and may be OK for a young child but would not be appreciated by a teenager...my suggestion would be to use the garage for a new master suite (with or without steps down from the hallway (depends on ceiling/roof height) and add a new carport with storage area behind the old roller door...the old master bedroom could be used as bed 2 but long term you might like to consider adding an extra bedroom to the back of the house and use bed 1 for extra living area with sliding doors to a rear deck to access the backyard
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last yearthen the only other option i can see is to extend out the back to create a third bedroom that could be about the same size as bed 2 and similar sqm and cost to an extension outside the kitchen laundry
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