Help a first timer with a project budget?

[Gow87]

Hi all,
I'm not sure if I'm in the right place but I'm a bit of a newbie to home improvement and I need help! This is my first house and this is the first time I'm looking into what I consider to be major work. It started out with the need for a new bathroom, which is tiny enough but also has the boiler in there. You can barely swing a cat. We could get rid of the bath and just make it a shower room but it's a three-bedroom family house with only this bathroom so I don't want to take anything away that I'll either want in the future when we have kids or that will hinder sale.

I'm looking to reconfigure the staircases to gain a little extra room and extend the already converted loft room further into the eaves to bring the storage into the room.

I've had a go at a 3D model of what I think is possible and attempted to read up on building regulations but I have no idea what ballpark this kind of work would fall into. I know building regs will cause me some issues with what I propose, so may have to factor in some extra spend to get around those too.

The house is an old, narrow terraced house with a small extension on the back. It's listed so I'll need consent but first off, I want to try and understand ballpark costs to see if I've even got the budget or if I need to keep saving.

On the attached, yellow is the current configuration that I want to rework, red it the ideal I'm aiming for.

All in, I've got an upper budget of about £15k and I'm in East Yorkshire. Am I delirious?

The alternative is to turn it into a shower room and stick a bath in the loft (something the neighbours have done) But I was hoping to make this more of a family bathroom. I'm open to any other ideas too.

If I've posted in the wrong place or broken forum etiquette, sorry!

 

[sircerebus666]

It's nigh on impossible to give a price on work you want doing over the internet especially as your house is listed , you need specialist advice from an architect who ideally has experience with renovating listed buildings and might know a good team of builders too.

Personally I'm not a fan of removing the storage space from under eaves as living in a small house myself I find that space invaluable for keeping things neat and tidy.

Also depending on how high your roof you might struggle to find furniture to fit under the eaves.

 

[Gow87]

Cheers for the response. Bit new to all this!

The plan with the eaves was to bring the storage into the room - build a bookshelf or bit of storage that will sit where the plasterboard is now and then leave a book behind to store things. The eaves are cold and dirty so wanted somewhere a bit more pleasant and accessible for easy access.

I've got an architect coming Monday for an initial chat - hopefully I'll soon find out how unrealistic my plans are!

Thanks for your help.