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Giddy Goat
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Thank you all so much for a stack of very useful and constructive suggestions and comments. What a great forum!
Having digested all your replies, my other half and I have decided to bite the bullet as Ros suggested. Work hasn't finsihed on the barn and having spoken to the artisans it seems not too late to reconfigure the rooms. There's a 2 metre space between the top of the stairs to the bedroom walls currently that we intended to use as a spacious gallery. We've decided to move the stud partitions forward by just over a metre and eat into the gallery so that, as HelenB suggests, we gain more height along one side of each room. The biggest problem, for which our electrician has a solution, is extending the electrics to their new positions. Problem solved. Albeit not without some expense but it will be worth it.
I'll let you all know how it turns out. Thanks again so much for all your fabulous help.
Poppy
Having digested all your replies, my other half and I have decided to bite the bullet as Ros suggested. Work hasn't finsihed on the barn and having spoken to the artisans it seems not too late to reconfigure the rooms. There's a 2 metre space between the top of the stairs to the bedroom walls currently that we intended to use as a spacious gallery. We've decided to move the stud partitions forward by just over a metre and eat into the gallery so that, as HelenB suggests, we gain more height along one side of each room. The biggest problem, for which our electrician has a solution, is extending the electrics to their new positions. Problem solved. Albeit not without some expense but it will be worth it.
I'll let you all know how it turns out. Thanks again so much for all your fabulous help.
Poppy
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Giddy Goat
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Hi Poppy. I'm glad my suggestion about moving the floor/walls was useful. That is what we had to do with our barn but beware cos I discovered when we went to inspect a few weeks after the work was done that one of the bedrooms still had a low ceiling as they had put the partition wall in where it had originally been planned as they thought the gallery looked much better wider !! Doh, this guy was very arrogant! We ended up with a superb gallery but the bedroom too low ! This isn't in a house that we rent out though- it couldn't be used as a bedroom that people pay for!!! My girls use it sometimes instead !! 
Good advice Fraise, 
We had an builder like that once told me I didnt know anything[as if!]
I said ,I know Im not going to pay you if you dont do it as Ive asked, seemed to do the trick!!
How people manage who arent there to see whats going on with building work I dont know must be a worry.
Before I bought in Spain I sort of believed what people say now I know they tell us what we want to hear. 
We had an builder like that once told me I didnt know anything[as if!]
I said ,I know Im not going to pay you if you dont do it as Ive asked, seemed to do the trick!!
How people manage who arent there to see whats going on with building work I dont know must be a worry.
Before I bought in Spain I sort of believed what people say now I know they tell us what we want to hear.