Loft Conversion

Re-doing a loft conversion

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.22 PM

The previous owners of our house (1926 mid-terrace) converted the loft around 9 years ago. It's a lovely conversion: huge hotel-like master bedroom with en-suite bathroom and walk-in wardrobe. Two velux windows at either end of the bedroom plus one velux window in the bathroom. The issue is: with the arrival of baby number four (gah!), we're getting pushed for space and need more bedrooms. If I was doing the loft conversion from scratch, I would have made it two bedrooms with a shared bathroom/shower room. Our existing master bedroom is nice but there's a lot of dead space. So my question is: How easy/difficult is it to re-do an existing loft conversion, and change it from existing (one large bedroom, en-suite, walk-in wardrobe) to new (two smaller bedrooms plus shower room)? Are we basically talking about doing everything from scratch again and all the disruption and (importantly) cost that that entails? Or does the fact that there's an existing high-quality conversion already in place mean we can negate the need for some of the structural work and keep disruption/costs down? I appreciate you need to see the existing layout to give a firm and proper indication but any general thoughts would be welcome. Thanks!