Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Jan 29, 2007 3:05 pm Hi all, my first post here.
We have a 14 year old 3-bedroom Allowrth home in the common L shape (Double garage at fron left side of house and main bedroom front left of house) and we want to add two bedrooms to the rear of the house. The fanily room is at the back off the kitchen and the thrid bedroom is at the back at the end of the hall. I was wondering if anyone else here had added two bedrooms to their Allworth in a similar style. We were going to tack on two bedrroms at the back of the house with access through the family room end wall. Any ideas? Thanks David Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 2Jan 29, 2007 8:22 pm I have a 20 year old home not Allworth, privately built, but the same layout as yours… I think?
I too wanted to do extensions through my family room, now my dining room. I MAY do a breeze-way through the dining room wall, but I want to enlarge my laundry, also out there. The breeze-way is a good way to connect the extension without too much disruption to the existing roof line. Then add the extension from that. I guess it depends how much land you have to work with. I will wrap my extension around my court yard making my home a U shape no longer an L shape. Best bet is to get a builder to have a look and see what ideas he can come up with. Again it comes back to the size of your land. I pretty much have given up on the idea now…. Too much extra house work and not enough time for it all, but it can be done. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 3Jan 29, 2007 8:29 pm Ok, thank you, my mother did suggest a breezeway but I don't understand how a breezeway would allow a U-Shape to form.
We have 712m squared land and there is plenty of room off our family/sun room now to go out 9m in the exact width of the house now. Back of house 7.5m wide approx. I must add that one builder said that because we are losing the end window in the current family room, the current family room will look small. THis is why Mum suggested leaving the window and allowing for a breezeway there. Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 4Jan 29, 2007 8:39 pm Your mother is clever!!!!
You should listen to her. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 6Jan 29, 2007 9:02 pm Try and leave the window in, depending where it is situated on the wall.
Or move it one side, or replace it with a smaller one. A breeze-way can be as big or small as you want it. You are only looking to walk threw it so it doesn’t have to be big. Put glass on one side of the breeze- way or louvered windows for air flow. What your builder said is right, once you take a window out the room will seem smaller, not to mention claustrophobic. Have a look at your room, and picture the breeze-way, it can be to one side of the wall, and it doesn’t have to be in the centre. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 7Jan 29, 2007 9:05 pm Thanks. So I gather by what you are saying the 2 new bedrooms aren't attached via a wall to the current house? ie the breezeway separates the current house from the two new bedrooms?
The window is in the end of the sunroom at the extremety of the house but there is a sliding glass door, the same size as the window in question, on the perpendicular wall to the left. Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 8Jan 29, 2007 9:11 pm Yes…. Could be good to relocate yourself out there!!!
Nice hide away from the kids. So instead of a window we are talking about a slider door on the wall??? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 9Jan 29, 2007 9:15 pm The window in question is in the end wall of the sun room...the sliding glass door configuration is on the wall to the left.
What I was getting at is that there is not going to be absence of light...some light will still come in the sliding door to the left if we do not consider a breezeway. Does a breezeway add cost to the project, or make it cheaper, generally speaking? Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 10Jan 29, 2007 9:16 pm OK got that wrong sorry!!
Window not a glass door. It’s Ok with the glass door on the other wall. Do you have a problem with this? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 11Jan 29, 2007 9:19 pm The glass door on the left will remain (unless someone else has a better idea ) as it is our main back door to the pergola/back yard areas.
We could even then extend the full width of the sunroom out a metre or so to make a cavity for doors at both ends of the cavity into the two bedrooms, left and right ends of the cavity. At least then the sunroom will appear bigger and the doors to the two new rooms come off the sunroom's cavity. (boy, there were a lot of cavities there - better see s dentist, not a builder!! - ha ha, sorry!!) That is, of course, if we do not go for a breezeway! Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 12Jan 29, 2007 9:21 pm Then you don’t need the window, and yes I think the breeze way will add to your costs.
More materials. Not sure about the roof line though. It could weigh itself out cost wise if there is less work to be done on the roof line. I would check on that with your builder. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 13Jan 29, 2007 9:23 pm We might get in sink here in a minute…… LOL Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 15Jan 29, 2007 9:26 pm You would then run a small hall way off the breeze way to the rooms, depending on how you are planning on having them sit on the plan. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 16Jan 29, 2007 9:29 pm So we would need a door in the sunroom to go through the breezeway (right to left) and into the new bedrooms, I gather.
Sorry, just trying to get my head around how it would all work... Funny, now I am imagining a little timber platform with steps up from the breezeway, where you would walk between the house and 2 bedrooms. Re: Want to add 2 bedrooms to 14yo Allworth home 17Jan 29, 2007 9:37 pm No door!!! It defeats the effect of the breeze way.
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