How to get best from this long kitchen-diner
Hi everyone, We recently moved in here and I'd be really interested in your thoughts on this room - it is a great size (for London!) but an odd shape and layout, in that you go through the dining area to get to the kitchen and back doors to garden (most victorian house extensions I have seen seem to be the other way around, with dining area near doors and garden). The kitchen is a lovely handmade one, but not really my style, so I'm thinking of a revamp but nothing substantial (new handles and prob grey colour cupboards and some white brick-shaped tiles with grey grout etc.). Main query is the dining area - it is quite dark and I don't know how to lay out the room to make most use of space and still enable using this as a passageway through to kitchen. Also wondering if it is worth knocking out the side wall and adding bi-fold where the big window/radiator is, to have a more open feel?? My favoured style is mid-century but my furniture just isnt working in there right now, though new white walls and lighting would help that I think. Any advice would be gratefully received!
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Comments (10)Hello Karen, The pic is a bit too small and doesn't really enlarge to see what's happening here.. It's not always the case that offering another bedroom would be the right way to go in order to make more money as I'm assuming this is the reasoning... If the space is obviously kitchen and dining it's really difficult too with the spatial configurations to offer this as living room as well. I think a straight galley would be good here and what I would design, but with windows possibly not this run on window side but on the opposite side with the configuration I'm going to suggest... Start with a full height fridge freezer in the corner Then have a run of two cabinets and then free standing range at 60 wide and then two further low cabinets and then sink with slimline dishwasher for example.. So roughly going to about 460 or so. . Maybe you could incorporate a free standing dresser for crockery/glassware opposite and then the 4 cupboards would be pots and pans etc... keeping the galley minimal means the space opens as much as possible... . How you deal with the colours etc will of course have further impact.. If you had this on the wall side you could then have some overhead cabinets if you wanted to... Many interesting ways of doing this that is not just uniform and boring.. I'd keep the front room as a living room and rear as bedroom, there may be a way to re plan the bathroom to make it smaller whilst retaining what is essential... for a bath consider a soaking tub which is a meter wide or a tiny bath with shower fitting overhead.. : ))...See MoreBest layout for kitchen-diner?
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