Building a Home Remodeling Design Dilemma

Design ideas needed for garage conversion / home addition

4 years ago

last modified: 4 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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Comments (6)

chiflipper
4 years ago
Bump.
3onthetree
4 years ago
OP maybe if you take a stab at it yourself, you'll get more responses and guidance. Without detailed info to go on, commenters can go in a hundred directions. Like is "Master Bedroom" size of 12'x15' good enough, or you must have 18'x22'? A closet island? Laundry require lots of folding counter? Access to main house is through Kitchen? Building details like plumbing an old garage slab. If you have a sketch, some of your wants get translated in what you have layed out and then can be questioned or run with.
Lily B thanked 3onthetree
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Lily B
Original Author
4 years ago
We pretty much are starting new - the roof and two walls are the only things staying. New slab/ electrical/ plumbing/ etc. Just using the same footprint because it makes more sense with the existing house. I edited the post to give more info - thanks for the helpful comments!
lyfia
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
Where is the door by the laundry go to in the first one? Do you have a powder room (half bath) in the other part of the house? This one doesn't seem accessible for guests without walking through the nursery.

Where does the connection to the main house dump you? In the middle of the kitchen or to the side of it or??? Can the connection move up/down some?

What size beds do you want to be able to fit in the master and in the other bedroom (nursery). Will the latter hold someone besides a toddler at some point?
3onthetree
4 years ago
Good start. Same questions as lyfia has, would the Powder be better accessible to the main house, do you want access at the back, what is the front french doors accessing (utilized by rest of house or better for just Master?), opening up Kitchen or even extending it somewhat into this space.
Lily B
Original Author
4 years ago
The door by the laundry in the first one would lead to a small courtyard in our side yard. We don’t need access to it but it’s kind of unused side yard space otherwise, so we could link to it and turn it into a nicer area.

We do have a powder room in the other part of the house but it would be nice if this one could also be accessed by the main area (doesn’t need to be in the nursery). We have a king size bed, and ideally the nursery could eventually hold at least a full size bed if needed. The French doors lead to our backyard and we want them to be accessible without being in the master. The connection to the house is on the side of the kitchen by the pantry. It could potentially move east (up in the picture) but we’d have to reconfigure the pantry and a closet in the existing house. I’ll draw up another picture that shows what’s inside when I get back from vacation next weekend. Thank you for your help!