Hi all
We purchased a house which was built in late 17th century and upstairs are 4 rooms, bathroom and shower room. One bedroom being walk through a bedroom.
We have 4 kids, two of each.
We moved in a little over a year ago but now with kids getting older we have to do something about privacy.
Current sleeping arrangements, eldest boy in bedroom 3, second eldest bedroom 1, girls (2) share bedroom 2 and us parents in bedroom 4.
I have attached a plan of upstairs.
The only options I can see it put up a wall in bedroom 2 to act as a hallway and maybe place another door off the landing which means moving a radiator which currently sits there. Seems such a waste of space as will be a long corridor. This would then offer separate access to both bedrooms.
other option if do-able:
There are stairs which come from the sitting room up to a small landing where bedroom 4 is, you think it would be possible to break through the bottom end of the stairs wall which would then access part way down bedroom 2 and then angle a smaller access route walling it all off. It probably needs structurally supporting but would that flow right or not and be odd having to leave bedroom onto stairs and up to get to bathroom.
Would appreciate any input and been scratching my head on this one.
Just to throw something else in. Bedroom 3 has a stud bit of wall on left on entering which was an access into bedroom 4 which is now currently built in wardrobes. It is roughly where the black arrows are showing. Do we make our room much small, lose wardrobes and make a walled off corridor to access his room that way and block off the door from bedroom 2? We would lose a lot of space and don't particularly like that idea because our bedroom is tucked away from the kids currently giving us good privacy.
Look forward to thoughts.
Thank you.
We purchased a house which was built in late 17th century and upstairs are 4 rooms, bathroom and shower room. One bedroom being walk through a bedroom.
We have 4 kids, two of each.
We moved in a little over a year ago but now with kids getting older we have to do something about privacy.
Current sleeping arrangements, eldest boy in bedroom 3, second eldest bedroom 1, girls (2) share bedroom 2 and us parents in bedroom 4.
I have attached a plan of upstairs.
The only options I can see it put up a wall in bedroom 2 to act as a hallway and maybe place another door off the landing which means moving a radiator which currently sits there. Seems such a waste of space as will be a long corridor. This would then offer separate access to both bedrooms.
other option if do-able:
There are stairs which come from the sitting room up to a small landing where bedroom 4 is, you think it would be possible to break through the bottom end of the stairs wall which would then access part way down bedroom 2 and then angle a smaller access route walling it all off. It probably needs structurally supporting but would that flow right or not and be odd having to leave bedroom onto stairs and up to get to bathroom.
Would appreciate any input and been scratching my head on this one.
Just to throw something else in. Bedroom 3 has a stud bit of wall on left on entering which was an access into bedroom 4 which is now currently built in wardrobes. It is roughly where the black arrows are showing. Do we make our room much small, lose wardrobes and make a walled off corridor to access his room that way and block off the door from bedroom 2? We would lose a lot of space and don't particularly like that idea because our bedroom is tucked away from the kids currently giving us good privacy.
Look forward to thoughts.
Thank you.