Help! Confusing floor plan......
10 years ago
Hi all,
We're about to exchange on a detached 4 bedroom house and would love to get some ideas about what to do with the floor plan.
At the moment the 'hallway' is really small and it's pretty tight for two people to stand in and remove shoes etc.
The kitchen is gally style and too small for the house. The house is just under 2000sqf.
The dining hall is a bit strange and is currently being used as a hallway/ dining room.
There is a step down from the dining hall to the sitting room.
The sitting room has sliding doors (old style and will need replacing). The ceiling isn't very high so our builder has advised us not to bring the floor height up, to meet with the 'dining hall'.
There is a wall between the 'dining hall' and 'sitting room' but we have been advised that this can be removed.
The stairs to the next floor are in the dining hall and cannot be moved.
The drawing room is the largest room downstairs and has two windows. We like this room and it has a working fire place. There is a small step up to this room. The floor cannot be lowered.
There is a garage and potentially down the line we could convert this to a bedroom/ snug/ tv room etc.
We definitely want a utility room / area to put washing machines etc.
How about bi-fold on the back wall?
A bit about us:
We spend most of our time in the living room.
It's just my husband and I but we will be starting a family soon.
We are open to the idea of open plan living but would like to have a room that has a cosy feel - preferably that has a door.
So how can you help?
What on earth do we do with the space?
I'm thinking we should knock the kitchen wall down so it's an open space -between the kitchen and dining hall AND knock down the dining hall to sitting room wall so basically all rooms are combined into one room (apart from the drawing room, which remains on its own).
This would allow us to have a big open plan kitchen, dining and potentially area for a sofa or something?
I don't want just a big kitchen and big dining room as I know we won't use the spaces- neither of us will spend hours cooking and then hours at the dining table.
How can we make the space usable?
Any suggestions where the kitchen could go? Dining table?
I saw this pic on Houzz and thought it could work well.
I liked the small sofa area and kitchen and dining altogether. I liked the wood burning stove also.
Could this work for this house?
Any help/ advice will be gratefully received.
Many thanks,
Fran
We're about to exchange on a detached 4 bedroom house and would love to get some ideas about what to do with the floor plan.
At the moment the 'hallway' is really small and it's pretty tight for two people to stand in and remove shoes etc.
The kitchen is gally style and too small for the house. The house is just under 2000sqf.
The dining hall is a bit strange and is currently being used as a hallway/ dining room.
There is a step down from the dining hall to the sitting room.
The sitting room has sliding doors (old style and will need replacing). The ceiling isn't very high so our builder has advised us not to bring the floor height up, to meet with the 'dining hall'.
There is a wall between the 'dining hall' and 'sitting room' but we have been advised that this can be removed.
The stairs to the next floor are in the dining hall and cannot be moved.
The drawing room is the largest room downstairs and has two windows. We like this room and it has a working fire place. There is a small step up to this room. The floor cannot be lowered.
There is a garage and potentially down the line we could convert this to a bedroom/ snug/ tv room etc.
We definitely want a utility room / area to put washing machines etc.
How about bi-fold on the back wall?
A bit about us:
We spend most of our time in the living room.
It's just my husband and I but we will be starting a family soon.
We are open to the idea of open plan living but would like to have a room that has a cosy feel - preferably that has a door.
So how can you help?
What on earth do we do with the space?
I'm thinking we should knock the kitchen wall down so it's an open space -between the kitchen and dining hall AND knock down the dining hall to sitting room wall so basically all rooms are combined into one room (apart from the drawing room, which remains on its own).
This would allow us to have a big open plan kitchen, dining and potentially area for a sofa or something?
I don't want just a big kitchen and big dining room as I know we won't use the spaces- neither of us will spend hours cooking and then hours at the dining table.
How can we make the space usable?
Any suggestions where the kitchen could go? Dining table?
I saw this pic on Houzz and thought it could work well.
I liked the small sofa area and kitchen and dining altogether. I liked the wood burning stove also.
Could this work for this house?
Any help/ advice will be gratefully received.
Many thanks,
Fran
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10 years ago- 10 years agoHi,
Step down in which room? Do you mean the room upstairs? Yes, there is a step down in the room upstairs also.
So if we moved the kitchen to the sitting room and knocked down the dining hall wall, we would have a big kitchen and dining area. The utility would be accessed from the new kitchen.
Would we just have the kitchen units in the new kitchen? Is there room for anything else? Sofa etc/ TV corner?
What would we put in the dining hall? Dining table?
It's a big room to just have a table in and I know we wouldn't use it.
Argghhhh it's so hard to visualise :-)
Thanks you both for responding so quickly.
Attached a more close up view of the downstairs Floorplan.
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10 years agoI would keep the kitchen units pretty much as they are, but by removing the wall you can fit a large island with deep drawers for storage and seating at the end. I think you should be able to fit fridge, freezer and tall larder style cupboard to the right of the door.
How about opening up the wall between dining room and sitting room on each side of the fireplace, but leaving the fireplace there? It would create a lovely sociable space, and you still have the drawing room separate for watching TV or whatever.
Lastly I would definitely enlarge the hall to make space for some built in storage. Hall storage is essential when you start a family believe me! You could keep the window over the sink I think, it could be a nice feature in the new hall and with a window in the exterior wall opposite, you could still get light and see outside.
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