Smart creativity required: Ground floor layout

9 years ago

Hi all,

I'd welcome your ideas on how to transform my new ground floor.

My aim is to have:
- a large kitchen diner with breakfast bar,
- an open plan and adjoining living area, sofa, tv.
- a downstairs shower and we
- a utility room with washing machine/ dryer
- play/ study area

Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated. As you can see the utility room and shower wc are badly positioned. The obvious thing to do would be to shift them in between the dining room and kitchen. This would allow the new kitchen/ diner to spread across the existing kitchen, wc and utility area. The rear reception becomes a living area. With doors into the lounge. The current dining room becomes a study/ play area for the kids. Let your most creative juices flow...... Thanks in advance :)

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Nyc Ceramics Kitchens & Bathrooms
9 years ago
I would move the utility room & shower/wc in to the front dining room, keep the door off the hall & link the 2 rooms with a door between & block off door from kitchen or keep this & have to separate rooms if you would rather keep them as per existing. Blocking this door gives you the option of extending kitchen units but means walking through to hallway to reach either facility.

Lounge to become your combined study & play room. Potential to have sliding doors into living space to join the two areas?

The back of the house can then be one space, extend kitchen with a peninsula off the rear wall where kitchen units end to right of existing sink, which will then give you your breakfast bar.

You could then have bi-fold doors across the remaining rear wall to the garden, the remaining space can be used for dining & an area for sofas-chairs with tv on wall or unit/storage.

Hope this gives you a few ideas!

Good luck with the project & keep us posted.

Regards Karl
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minnie101
9 years ago
Hi. i think the layout you've said works if you want a separate lounge plus a kitchen/diner/living space. The issue being you only have 10"2 to fit in the shower and utility. If you pinch 3ft off the existing dining room to make it 10 x 10 and 5ft off the length of the kitchen you should be able to squeeze 2 rooms into 8 x 10"2. I've drawn it so you have 2 L shapes. Nothing is to scale but dimensions of everything in my head seem to work! There looks to be enough room to get washing out and you'd need to ensure both doors opened outwards Into to the kitchen. It might be worth measuring it out properly.
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I’ve had a play with this - please feel free to use any elements you like ! But obviously where I’ve removed /moved walls a SE will need to be involved ! This is just a rough idea … I’ve expanded on your great idea for sight line and created a study nook with window over desk area to give that view out, as you enter the home.. I’ve reduced the bathroom to a shower room with laundry appliance cupboard too … also stolen some space from master bedroom for hall storage - moving the entrance door to that bedroom, and the wall, in the process … I’ve kept the lounge with fire place and added book shelving to reduce noises from lounge to bedroom. I’ve worked with your current kitchen space to put in a USA ff ( but can’t be in the corner as the doors wouldn’t open well - so moved the hob to accommodate it) You mentioned moving a cupboard and existing int FF to get the USA in - if the cupboard is 600mm could you simply buy another int FF and have it next to the original instead ? I added a window seat at the end of the kitchen … you mentioned taking down the top part of the internal wall to dining - so I’ve run with that too. It’s just tweaking what’s there really . But as I say - just some ideas to get you thinking - and to add to the other ideas on this thread. Oh - and I opened up the area below the kitchen to a seating area and added sofas and tv too. Hope you like some bits !! Although I do appreciate its now significantly open plan - and although that suits some - not everyone likes it !
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9 years ago
Hi Minnie, thanks again for your ideas. Can I ask where the utility/ wc doors would go? Would a small corridor need to be created?
minnie101
9 years ago
I would have them opening into the kitchen so the dining room would be blocked off and entrance to dining room left off of the hall. Not sure re regs on shower rooms off of kitchens though, do you need a door separating them?? I'm not sure there's enough room for a corridor and then it means potentially moving the cupboard in the hall

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