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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?
JonoMarshall-
Yes, hoping to put at least one roof light in each room, as there are no windows currently in the back wall, and given it’s a solid stone wall, not easy to cut some in. The open front is west facing, but it’s all pretty sheltered in behind the house.
In terms of future use, I figured I would make sure that all services are in, and if I can plan it smartly try and avoid having sockets etc in the stud partitions, should make reconfiguring easy in the future, even if I have to move stud walls.
Sam_w
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...