Remodel of downstairs space - advice needed!
lizeaves81
8 years ago
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Extension/house "remodel" advice needed please!
Comments (14)Ok, so I've never commented on Houzz before (despite being a huge reader) but the shape of your house really intrigued me as it's very charming but quite tricky. Looking at just the ground floor, I think that an extension that fills in the 'rectangle' floorpan of the whole house might work. The loo and shower should be moved so that they are not blocking off movement flowing through the ground floor. To get a bigger hallway you could move back the wall currently going into the kitchen, so that you incorporate the small window into the hall. Remove the wall by the stairs and turn the stairway itself into a feature which would make the hallway - and stairs themselves - feel much roomier (I can't see from your floorpan whether they are already open to the hallway). What's currently the kitchen could become a utility with downstairs loo (move the shower upstairs into new bathroom over new extension, taking a bit from bedroom 1?). I have recently had an extension kitchen built on our own house and turned the old (tiny) kitchen into a laundry/boot room - best decision ever with a growing family! In the utility room you could put in a stacked wash/tumbler (if you want a tumbler, or else just cupboards/laundry on top) and a downstairs loo, as well as more storage. In the new kitchen, you could have double/french/sliding/bifold doors as per your taste looking out SE into the garden, creating a long sightline - and feeling of space - from the garden right through the kitchen into the far room. This would create a spacious-feeling kitchen tied into the rest of the house. You could block up the door into the current dining room and take out the wall between the dining/living. Keeping the dining room as dining, this gives you a cosy room there for small intimate dinners but also the potential to have big dinner parties on a long extended table stretching out into the living room. When not entertaining, that slightly self-contained room (as it's not a through-route as is the rest of the house) could be used as a study/quieter reading room. You now have a house that is welcoming for entertaining - guests come through the front door, where there's space for coats/hatstands, straight through the open door into the living room and are greeted by the fireplace ahead of them, and look round to see the dining table. Downstairs loo for guests nicely separated from all the action. Please excuse my very rough sketch of what I mean, and its lack of scale!...See MoreI need an en suite and a downstairs loo - advice on layout please!
Comments (8)Hi Missy, Have you thought about having a shower fitted instead of a bath in the en-suite? Showers can be a lot more space-saving and economical done right. Plus, the technology's come a long way, giving you just as luxurious an experience as you'd have in the bath with options like rain jets, cascade (waterfall-like), lights, aromatherapy and speakers to play music through. What kind of style are you going for in the en-suite? The above are all quite contemporary but we have some traditional bell-shaped rain showers as well. Best of luck with it all, and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch! Thanks, Maxine, Smart Showers Ltd...See MoreKitchen and downstairs remodel - ideas?
Comments (9)Thank you for the replies and sketches. Sorry for the delay in replying, we are away at the moment and where we are doesn’t have the best internet connection. I do like the sketches, however it doesn’t really fit with the future plans of using the area as a second small sitting room in the future. Also, whilst I know it is definitely the trend to have large focal kitchens, I’m not sure we want to go any bigger, plus we wouldn’t want to access through the current lounge as that wouldn’t really work with where our TV cabinet and sofa currently are. I think we are wanting to keep all the walls as per our current plan, but just wondering if there are any changes we can make keeping this in mind? If not, we are going to proceed with the above. In terms of colour, as ours is smaller than the inspiration image, we want to slightly reduce the number of colours. The main units and unit surround the fridge will be light blue, with the small island being pink. The worktops will be a dark grey sparkly quartz. The flooring will will a light grey tile effect laminate and rather than using brown wall tiles, we are opting for light grey metro/subway tiles to match in with the floor. What do people think of this? I used an app just to give an indication of how the light grey looks (obviously not an exact match)....See MoreDownstairs layout advice - adding downstairs toilet
Comments (6)I was thinking of 2 ideas for the position of your toilet... the green option is great as it’s out of the way, under the stairs but reduces the middle room and the toilet pipes are far... Or the blue option: reduces your kitchen, but great for the pipe just above. It depends on many things... Do you have children, in that case, they might need space to play/toys... Do you want 2 dinning areas? Ie: breakfast and middle room... I would personally change the window in the middle room, for a French door... and take the wall off as you mentioned. This would create a nice spacious dining room. I would use the breakfast room as a comfy snug to watch my garden grow while reading a book with a coffee!...See Morelizeaves81
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoHave attached your modified plan. I took down the wall between the kitchen and the study / playroom to give you a big Kitchen / diner. Reclaimed some of the lounge for a smaller playroom. You don't need a vast second lounge as you already have a sitting room. It made the Kitchen / Diner a much more useable space. ( All subject to load bearing walls / planning etc )
You may want to move the current door to the kitchen from the middle to one end, to give yourself the best chance of a good run of kitchen units!
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