A change of plan

After asking both architect and plumber it seems that despite the ease with which property programmes on TV talk about popping in an ensuite, or swapping rooms around, my grand scheme of moving the loo from one end of the bathroom to the other and separating off a small back bedroom is just not viable even if I pay to have the soil pipe taken out through the wall as the roof of the downstairs bay window is just too close to the upstairs window.
Sigh, I will have to give up the dream of the extra rental income and get a nice sofa bed in the main front room and then give visitors the benefit of a comparatively huge bathroom. It will certainly make it a nicer guest suite for friends and family when they come to stay, and I can always go down there for a long hot soak since our bath here doesn't have a proper water supply, durr!
It is going to be a challenge to make a sensible layout as everything will be queued up along the outside wall. The loo can stay in exactly the same position!!! (though not the strange yellow one with the even stranger chrome loo seat). The bath will lie lengthwise where the sink is so I can get a shower fitted above it and I think the basin can go in front of the window if it is mounted into a cabinet rather than a pedestal to match in with the slightly lower window sill. The cabinet will also be useful in hiding the drain from the bath.
I just need to do something with the entirely blank planked wall opposite, someone suggested a sofa!
At least this option should work out cheaper than my original plan, fingers crossed!

A symphony in primrose, with a future as water storage up at the allotment!

The other bad news from the plumber, altogether a rather gloomy harbinger of doom, is that the old gas boiler is really beyond the pale and that as the overall heating system is old it should all be replaced, at 'only' three or four thousand pounds. Ha ha, or not! I think I am going to ditch all the gas, it doesn't even heat the hot water system at the moment, and get nice familiar night storage heaters. I know its not a cheap option to run but assuming it costs £100 extra a year in bills it would still take at least twenty years to repay the extra £2,000 installation cost, and who knows, one day I may afford solar panels! Even with this diddy renovation project there is seldom a dull day or a quick fix.

The offending and offensive boiler!