Hi everyone,
I've recently bought a house... I'm getting ahead of myself as we are only just instructing solicitors so hopefully this doesn't all fall down.
Floorplan
Here is the ground floor layout. As you can see the living room is very long and quite narrow. It nearly put me off buying but the rest of the house is lovely - the living room too but it's just an awkward shape.
Photograph
There's two thumbnails here showing the different ends of the room. The fireplace in the middle makes it even more awkward to lay things out. It's just too long a room I think.
My Idea
I was thinking that I could split the living room up.
1) 30% of the room as a study. There is a window at the bottom end of the room. I could get a builder to put a wall up near to that (good for re-sale value as it could even be advertised as an extra bedroom).
2) Then 70% will stay as the living room.
3) Get rid of the fire place and then I can use the back wall and it's not in the way. I don't believe there is a proper chimney as there's no real space for it.
The result would be this... red line showing the wall and study space. The blue box showing a doorway. The room is that long that I think the living room would still be a decent sized, but just far better proportioned.
My Questions
1) What do you think?
2) Any idea how feasible this is? I have no clue about DIY and building up walls, putting doors in, taking out fire places...
3) Realistically how much work is it?
4) Cost? I'm in the South East, am I looking at maybe £1500k for the work? Or double that? Am I even close?
Thanks everyone
I've recently bought a house... I'm getting ahead of myself as we are only just instructing solicitors so hopefully this doesn't all fall down.
Floorplan
Here is the ground floor layout. As you can see the living room is very long and quite narrow. It nearly put me off buying but the rest of the house is lovely - the living room too but it's just an awkward shape.
Photograph
There's two thumbnails here showing the different ends of the room. The fireplace in the middle makes it even more awkward to lay things out. It's just too long a room I think.
My Idea
I was thinking that I could split the living room up.
1) 30% of the room as a study. There is a window at the bottom end of the room. I could get a builder to put a wall up near to that (good for re-sale value as it could even be advertised as an extra bedroom).
2) Then 70% will stay as the living room.
3) Get rid of the fire place and then I can use the back wall and it's not in the way. I don't believe there is a proper chimney as there's no real space for it.
The result would be this... red line showing the wall and study space. The blue box showing a doorway. The room is that long that I think the living room would still be a decent sized, but just far better proportioned.
My Questions
1) What do you think?
2) Any idea how feasible this is? I have no clue about DIY and building up walls, putting doors in, taking out fire places...
3) Realistically how much work is it?
4) Cost? I'm in the South East, am I looking at maybe £1500k for the work? Or double that? Am I even close?
Thanks everyone