Renovating small house for resale and need an opinion on bathroom vs. bigger kitchen?
Friday, November 27th, 2009 at
9:21 am
We have just bought a small (480 sq ft) small house with no basement to renovate and resell. It has one bedroom, small living room and very small kitchen and even smaller bathroom. The lot is big so we have already dug a hole, poured foundation and are planning on moving the house on top of the new foundation. So, the basement will have 2 bedrooms, full bathroom, laundry room and the mainfloor bedroom will be opened up to make a bigger living room. Ok…here comes the question…would you take the bathroom out on the mainfloor and open the kitchen or would you take the tub out (it’s only a 4 ft long old tub) and keep a bathroom upstairs and keep the small kitchen? I think bigger kitchen no bathroom and my husband thinks the opposite. Please let me know your opinion.
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For both conveniences good size kithchen and an uncramped bathroom on the house.
The kitchen you spend more time in selling the main floor will add bonus in there if extra money is available the main floor will add bonus in selling the kitchen you spend more time in there.
The kitchen you spend more time in selling the house.
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ik ben een vrouw. ik heb een grotere keuken nodig. i ook wouldn' t matrijs als ik de treden moest doen een paar extra tijden per dag. het is wint wint situatie. ga voor de keuken.
the bigger kitchen will help more to up the value of the home.
You could take the bath tub out and install a shower. that would take up let room. Most women always love have a larger kitchen.
with proper layout, a small kitchen can be no problem. Mine is a galley with a nook on one end. It’s all in the cabinets. Plenty of storage, to the ceiling if need be is a must in a small kitchen. as for the bath, make it a guest bath with no tub. This would provide for company, and keep them out of your basement. Have you considered adding on to the main floor? depending on the layout of the house, you might be able to put an el out on the kitchen end to gain more space. or possibly off both the kitchen and living room thus saving the upstairs bedroom as a guest room or study.
I would want to keep a half-bath on the main floor. I think having only one bathroom — in the basement, no less — would be a drawback. I know that I wouldn’t like to have to go up and down the stairs to get the bathroom all the time and I wouldn’t like to send visitors to the basement to use the restroom.
If I understand what you plan for the main floor, you’ll have 480 square feet for a living room, kitchen/dining area and half bath; you should be able to design an open floor plan that would accommodate all of them nicely. A half-bath can fit into a very small space if you use a pedestal sink or a sink that mounts directly onto the wall.
Good luck.
Ik zou een damestoilet boven verlaten, aangezien het een pijn beneden van de woonkamer of de keuken zou zijn moeten gaan telkens als u moet gaan. Kunt u de keuken in het tongebied van het nu kleinere damestoilet een weinig uitbreiden?
sinds uw het doen van dit veel hoe dan ook, denk ik u allebei zou moeten doen. houd het bad maar slechts als halve bad, gootsteen en ladenkast. dan vergroot zo veel de keuken aangezien u met de beschikbare ruimte kunt. als it' s gevormd oneven misschien u kon het hebben een kleine voorraadkast zijn of meer kabinetten toevoegen.
een enkel gedachte, can' t werkelijk hulp zonder de lay-out te zien.
Goed Geluk!
Herinner me om de meesten van u begroting in de keuken en de baden te zetten, omdat die zijn wat een huis verkopen.
You can’t go wrong improving your kitchen space so I would enlarge that space. I would try to keep a powder room type bath on the main floor with just a stool and sink. It will fit into a small space and give you a 1 1/2 bath feature that is also a plus.