Renovating a 70's style brick home - thoughts please!
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Seeking some suggestions, feedback on the below ideas:
- As well as re-doing the kitchen and bathroom, was wondering if we could make it a two bathroom house by knocking through part of the wall in the bedroom to what is currently the external laundry, and turning that into an ensuite (therefore making this bedroom the master)? Would it be a significant cost to knock down part of the wall, add a door, and turn this laundry into an ensuite?
- Could we then enclose part of the "al fresco" area and similarly knock down part of the bedroom wall to create a door to what could be a walk-in wardrobe (and remove the existing wardrobe). Again - possible?
- If number #1 is possible above - I was wondering if we could then create a laundry (i.e. add an internal wall) where the back door to the kitchen is, and which currently has kitchen cupboards along one wall and a linen cupboard from the hallway. This would unfortunately eat into our kitchen space a bit - but I think the placement of that back door is a bit awkward for a new kitchen design anyway?
Curious to hear any other thoughts, ideas, suggestions :)
Thank you!
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