[LB]

Hi to all this AM, Has anyone made the rear bedroom and the dining room into a livning room and used the living room as their dining room? These houses are priced right, have inside laundry, and two car garage, but the living room is so very small it is almost unusable for a large couch and a TV cabinet. Hope someone can help. Regards LB

[jojoin]

Don't have an answer, but that's a creative idea if you could remove that BR wall & maintain structural integrity. Agree, the LR is small on that model.

[zcaveman]

I have an Amarillo and am very satisfied with the size of the living room. Since there are only the two of us it is all we need.

[jblum315]

I have an expanded Bougainevillea. The LR is fine for me, I think it would be too small as a dining room. Plus you would need two more interior doors, taking up a lot of wall space

[VICAR OF DIBLEY]

We had thought to change our floor plan on our Bouganvela. The foot print is the same for both models you mentioned, but there are differences.

I think you should look at the differences before you make a decision.

One of our thoughts was to place the laundry room in the garage. Knock down the wall that separates the laundry room and living room This adds quite a lot of space.

Another idea was to see if it would be viable to take down the wall between the front bedroom and the living roon. We would have made a smaller bedroom that would be used as an office.

Placement of furniture - we had our couch on the far wall from when you enter the house. We did not have what I refer to as a walkway behind the couch and the front door.

I have seen, and have come to no conclusions about it - where people have made their garage into another room. I thought it was an interesting idea. The room was definitely large.

Wish you luck on what ever you do. If you need an excellent contractor please pm me. He has done work for us and many of our friends.

Originally Posted by LB

Hi to all this AM, Has anyone made the rear bedroom and the dining room into a livning room and used the living room as their dining room? These houses are priced right, have inside laundry, and two car garage, but the living room is so very small it is almost unusable for a large couch and a TV cabinet. Hope someone can help. Regards LB

[angiefox10]

I'm clearly not an expert... but wouldn't it be a lot less expensive to just buy a bigger house? I would think that after tearing down walls and doing what you would need to do to make a room bigger and at the same time losing a room, thus storage, would be far more expensive then just buying a bigger home.

As I said... I'm not an expert.