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Posted by Smitty Two on April 15, 2008, 5:54 am
> Hi, Looking for opinions about whether the resale value of a house would go
> up or down
> after adding a bathroom. I know, sounds obvious, but read on.
>
> I live in a 4 bedroom, ONE bath older house. The bathroom is 6'3" X 12'6".
> The way the
> house is laid out, I could cut the existing bathroom in half, making two
> rooms that would be
> SMALL 6'3" X 6'1" after allowing for the wall in between them.
>
> I could SQUEEZE a full bath in each half with one accessed like it is now,
> from the main
> hallway. I could cut a hole into the master bedroom from the second half so I
> would end
> up with a master bath. But they would be SMALL.
>
> The only other options I have would be to take away part of the walk-in
> closet in the
> master BR, or take the small adjoining enclosed porch, currently used as an
> office and
> convert it into a bathroom.
>
> Both of those options would give me a master bath without touching the
> existing bathroom,
> but then I would lose either the office or a most of the closet. If I took
> the office, which is
> really a sunroom, I would have to do some major reworking of the exterior of
> the house,
> i.e. taking out a bunch of windows and an exterior door, and resheathing and
> residing to
> match the rest of the house.
>
> My wife and I are capable of doing all the work ourselves either way, but we
> are wondering
> what would be the better way to go from a resale standpoint. Thanks, John
I'm sure you'll agree that the only thing worse than an outdated house
is a poorly updated house. I'd not cut the existing bathroom in half,
and your other options don't seem particularly attractive, either. Hard
to say without seeing a floorplan, but if one of the bedrooms is on the
other side of the existing bath, I'd think about scrapping it in favor
of two large, modern, well-appointed bathrooms.
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