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I'd go with the second option and use your kitchen as a way of combining the two spaces (if possible)? Save some money on some of those doors too? Are you allowed to install glazing in the roof perhaps?
Can the craft room easily become a bedroom for your future bungalow scenario?
What's the orientation of your glazing? You may need to do some summer heat gain calculations?
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In pic2, could you have a layout which allows a door either side from both adjacent rooms (office and gym) ?
If so that would be my choice bc;
- No views needed for a bathroom
- Access from two rooms, so either could be a bedroom in future or sitting room and bed.
- Imo it's easier to make a kitchen on wall nice with free space behind than a gally kitchen.
- No views needed for a bathroom
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How about -
Room on left - Gym + corner shower (then can become Bedroom later.)
2nd from left - Office (becomes Living Room)
Middle right - L-shaped kitchen + toilet (pocket door off office)
Right - Craft Room (becomes bed two/dining etc)
I would add pocket doors between each room, so you can open it up for bigger party space / not have to go outside between each when raining - and not have to reconfigure to adapt to a full living space. -
Have you any plans on how your doing the floor, damp proofing etc. We have a cowshed as well, it’s stone probably a few hundred years old and was a classic style Irish stone farm house until the 1940s when a new house went up and it was converted. It still has concrete stalls in it and it seems a bit of a waste to leave it slows decaying. Only photo on the phone is the back of the building- also no windows .
So my question...
I am in the very early stages of planning our next stage of the renovation, which is converting the old cow shed (16m x 4m) into a useable building, it is currently not water tight, and half the floor is broken concrete, the other half is earth.
Things that will definitely need doing:
The aim is to make this easy to convert to a small bungalow in the future, so will be insulating etc. and all internal walls will be stud, so that is is easier to reconfigure in the future. For now it will be an office, gym and craft room, with a small shower room and kitchenette.
Thankfully the brick pillars give natural partitioning, so office, gym and craft room will all be 2 bays each, and kitchen and shower room will be one bay each. My initial thought was that each room would have its own front door (except kitchen\shower room) and there would also be internal doors to go room to room. I'm keen not to put a corridor in as it would lose space and also block light.
My main question at the moment is how to configure the kitchen and shower room, of the two options below, which do people prefer? Also open to other suggestions...
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