When you move into a home, it can be easy to try and squeeze yourself into the existing layout. However, sometimes converting a room or two is can be the small change it takes to make daily life so much easier. That is what Jenny Howard, a brand strategy consultant, did when she converted a bedroom into a family bathroom in a now three-bedroom Victorian cottage in Winchester, where she lives with her son.
‘When we moved in, the cottage only had two bedrooms and no bathroom upstairs, Jenny tells us. 'It was a really inconvenient layout – you had to walk through the living room to get to the downstairs shower room. I decided to convert one of the bedrooms into a family bathroom before starting on a first-floor extension to create two additional bedrooms.'
