First time home buyer - Need help on adding a new bathroom

last year

Hi all,

We are first time home byers. Our requirements were a princess suite and other things but with the way market is we had no luck since 2 years so, finally settled on a new home which has none of the things we were looking for but it is a new home that they are reselling/flipping. we gave up the other 3 things we were looking for but i absolutely need a princess suite ( because of personal reasons ) on the 2nd floor which is not offered in this house. I had talked with someone who had worked in the community and he mentioned it is possible but cost around 18-20 K which I'm okay to bear. My question is I'm not sure where we can add it. I'm looking for a small standing shower, 1 vanity and 1 toilet in a small place as a necessity and nothing more than that.

There are no walk in closets that we can use.

One of them suggested adding it in the loft area from inside the bedroom 4 which I'm not sure how it will look which will make the loft very small and will close out the 2 windows. we want to use the loft area for TV/Projection
One other option I'm thinking is opening up the wall between BD 4 and BD 3 and then adding a bathroom in BD 3 where closet is. This way it will be extended BD with seating/desk. I'm okay to lose 1 BD.
It would have been great if i could remove both the closets from inside BD 4 and outside BD 4 but the person who looked at it quick said there is not enough space for a full bath there.

Please let me know your suggestions ! Thank you !

The ones highlighted in yellow are the existing closets ( not walk in )

Red drawing are the 2 options 1 and 2

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You, as a first time home buyer, need to realize that all of the renovation TV shows have faked TV set poor quality renovations, and laughably faked unrealistic budgets.

The real world is that you do not get your dream home on the first buy unless you are the luckiest person alive. You do not even remodel a first home into a dream home unless you come from a wealthy background, or worked summer construction in your dad’s company since you were 12.

A significant amount of money or skilled sweat equity is involved in building a bathroom from scratch. That is money and effort that only has a limited return. The shows that show a ”10 K bathroom build” bringing in 50K of ”added value” are just renovationPORN. They have almost no basis in how things really happen or really cost.

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Whatthehell is a ”princess suite”? Some silly 1950’s thing? A new bathroom costs a heck of a lot more than 20 K. The average to remodel a 3 piece already existing hall bathroom, is more than 20K. To carve out a new bathroom and put in all if the infrastructure would be 50-150K.
nickel_kg
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In the 90's some people referred to our daughter's room as a "princess bedroom" because it was smaller than our master bedroom and had its own full bathroom. I assume a 'princess suite' is a bedroom with an en suite, but not quite as big or fancy as the primary bedroom.

I don't totally understand the floorplan, so won't comment on it. Except to say, if you only need to occupy 2 bedrooms, it would be easy to give the hall bath to bedroom #3 by adding a door. But what's that space between bedroom 2 and the master?
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last year
Yes, you are correct Nickel. Princess suite is a smaller than master BD with it's own full bath. I tried to edit the layout using paint since the actual owners made changes to the original plan but i couldn't do a good job in adding it correctly. sorry about that. I will try again later and see if i can get accurate one

we have to come out of BD 3 to access the hall bath. we thought about the option of adding a door from BD but from that end of the wall, there is big vanity mirror and double vanity/sinks.

There is no space between the master and BD2. i couldn't edit it to show correctly.

The Gap outside of BD 2 in the hallway is the laundry room.
ladybug A 9a Houston area
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There is another thread in this forum regarding adding a bathroom, I think their architect gave them an estimate of $100k. Depending on your location it could be a lot more but I can't imagine being able to add a new bathroom for the numbers you mentioned even in a very low cost area.
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elcieg
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Bedroom 3 makes the most sense to me, as the plumbing is right next to it. You don't have to lose a closet; you build closet and storage around the bed. If there is a window on the best wall for the bed, have it replaced with an operable transom.

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