Can I transform an awkward skinny bedroom into a groundfloor age-in-place master bedroom?
Updated with dimensions of potential space: I live in an old 1.5 story upright-and-wing home that has two bedrooms and one bathroom (top of picture in room between mudroom and kitchen). This bathroom has a clawfoot tub.
My husband is aging and starting to have mobility issues. The main bedroom is upstairs - where there is no bathroom and the stairs are getting hard for him. He has been sleeping downstairs in the "skinny" bedroom (6'x15.7') on a twin (I miss sleeping with him!). The stairs to the upstairs partially cuts into the room.
My Question to you: I am wondering if I can make that bedroom more usable with an addition of 12.5x15' or less?
It can't be wider than 12.50' wide due to the property line and easement. I also don't want to cover the living room window or totally surround the mudroom as it is not an insulated space and is good for a cool room storaged in the winter. I imagine that the addition would be where the bedroom window. The addition would either keep that long skinny part or have a new entrance (pocket door across from the stairs doorway?) and make a walk-in closet near the kitchen using the current doorway.
I want this bedroom to have a bathroom (because 1. old man can't always make it to the bathroom in time and 2. the clawfoot is getting harder for him to get in and out). I would love a compact bathroom with a walk in shower, toilet and sink. Plumbing will likely be a pain in the ass as this is an old home (150+ yrs). The house probably only got indoor plumbing in the 1930s (judging from the kitchen cabinetry), with an addition of a bathroom and kitchen. The main stack is the wall between the bathroom and kitchen. The mudroom is lower than the rest of the main floor by three steps (not shown) making running a line from the main stack hard/impossible - I am guessing.
Upstairs there is a landing area we turned into a bedoorm for one kid (north roomish) and the current main bedroom has my bed and another kid in a twin. There is an underthe eaves closet on the west side of the main bedroom
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