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Design ideas needed for garage conversion / home addition

3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago

We will be converting our existing garage & an old, gutted mother-in-law unit to additional floor space for our home. It's an odd shape, but we are hoping to create the following:

- a master bedroom/bathroom

- an additional small bedroom (to be used as a nursery for now, eventually a bedroom or office as needed

- a laundry room or closet

- a half bath, if possible

Here is what we are working with (rough measurements):



A few things to note:

-Our yard is on the West and North sides, so we want our master bedroom in that NW corner.

-The french doors can be moved, but we want them somewhere on that West side.

-The slab is going to be removed and re-poured (it is from 1938!) and the West and East walls are being completely rebuilt... so we are almost starting from scratch other than the roof/ general footprint.

-Our house is old and small, so we don't need giant bedrooms here either (a small master is expected)

-It will be connecting to the existing house's kitchen... we have two bedrooms in our current space, so there will basically be two bedrooms at each end of the house.

Any creative minds out there have ideas of how to achieve this?? I drew out a few ideas but I'm very much in the beginning stages of how to work this.. We don't necessarily need the sitting area, but I haven't figured out how to mesh the space otherwise.

Option 1


Option 2



EDIT:

The pic below shows some of the existing house. The gray area is a closet to the bedroom and our pantry in the kitchen - both could be potentially rearranged if it would help. The closet to that existing bedroom is a weird size (very narrow walk-in). We'd be fine with losing it or resizing it somehow. We've toyed with the idea of having the addition connect through that bedroom (and turn the bedroom into a den or something?) but we'd rather not lose the bedroom. The kitchen/dining/living is already very open-concept. We need more bedrooms more than anything else. Our current bedrooms are 11x10 and 11x12 - both pretty small but we make do.


Either way we think this addition will be connecting onto our kitchen - not the most ideal, but we're not going to redo the existing house, so we just have to work with this somehow.




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