Thinking about knocking back bedroom and small side room together - has anyone done or seen this?

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Permalink Reply by Liz on October 30, 2012 at 16:49

My back bedroom is like this. We didn't do it ourselves but I think it works fine. You're welcome to pop round and have a look.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on October 30, 2012 at 16:57

Likewise, you are welcome to pop round and see our bathroom. I think the previous owners did the opposite and knocked the bathroom and small room together to make a large bathroom and kept a small box room at the back.

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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on October 30, 2012 at 16:59

Ours is kind of a mixture of the two things you mention (bedroom/bathroom) - the previous owners turned that small bedroom into an en suite shower room for the back bedroom and in doing so, they moved the wall a little way into the back bedroom and curved it off, so there isn't a hard corner into the little hallway of the back bedroom from the main hall.  Bizarrely, they also chose not to put a door on the en suite (so you could lie in bed and, well, see the loo) - needless to say, we have rectified this!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 30, 2012 at 18:11

Did the same thing. The dividing wall wasn't load bearing and the replaster job was pretty easy. Great big bedroom now.

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Permalink Reply by Alison P on October 31, 2012 at 13:54

Thanks everyone, that's really helpful.

Liz, would love to come and see what your back bedroom looks like. Ooh err etc..

Bethany, what you've described sounds exactly what we have as a layout at the moment, bar the doorway connecting the two rooms - so I don't think the previous owners did move the wall back a bit into the bedroom, ours has that same look complete with curved wall edge. Love the idea of no actual door urg!

Michael, presume you moved the door up the corridor? Our corridor narrows just after the natural point where you'd put the door so am not yet sure what we'd do.

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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on October 31, 2012 at 14:13

Oh, that is interesting.  I wouldn't have thought the late Victorians were into domestic curved walls.  either that, or someone did a job lot in the 1960s (perhaps through people popping round to look at their neighbours' houses....!)

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