How to remodel this boxy kitchen? (photos)
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Comments (5)Hello Ca Vow, Yes the Velux window is nice, lots of lovely light! Pics need a more panoramic view to see really.. You could add a pantry as per Karen's plan. I'd still take away the remaining living room wall so it's entirely open into the space and possibly stick to low level cupboards for food storage. Keeping the kitchen roughly where it is situated, means that tv and sitting would be at the other end of the living room. So you keep cooking and dining together so to speak. Another idea might be to have two galley style opposite rather than a U shape configuration. Moving sink round to wall other side of bathroom so plumbing together. With oven opposite it. Thus you could have a wall to ceiling pantry cupboard or double height fridge enclosed as a cupboard style on that wall where currently the sink is situated. Then if you open the entire wall to living room, you could extend the galley worktop (new sink side) and even extend that to accommodate an eating area that folds away when you don't want it... : )) Roughly speaking.. View if you were standing with your back to your fridge/pantry : )) You could house the fridge in a pantry style cupboard.... Think deVOL or Plain English... Have beautiful free standing appliances... Ideas..... Smeg Range dual fuel 60 or 90. Smeg streamline dishwasher, Dualit toaster and architect kettle.. Buy cheaper cabinet shells... and put lovely doors! Handless.. or cup handles.. Paint matt colour or lovely wooden doors like Bert and May Kitchens... Choose lovely taps... Have a lovely worktop... The watermark collection Zen, London or Elan Vital, Kohler articulated tap in Nickel or brass... Have a pot filler... Make the kitchen beautiful with these shiny things.... Celebrate the open plan and let everyone see what a fabulous kitchen you'll have... No need to hide with integrated appliances.. : ))...See Morealternative remodelling take 3
Comments (18)So the meeting with the builder today clarified a few things. 1) it’s too awkward to leave the original kitchen back section as a utility because the wall is only a single skin and not up to building regs so would need knocking down/rebuilding anyway, lol. 2) can’t really put the kitchen in my last plan at the back of the house because of the floor joists (as I figured) and extraction etc. He said the extra costs would outway and savings on the few metres reduction. 3) only option is to either change the design completely re the kitchen and not have an island so therefore taking out the need for a min of 13’ space to fit one in! Or 4) move it in from the left side so it’s closer to the dining area to save on some building costs and reduce overhead roof lights (don’t need 3 really) So I have to work out in a 26’ proposed room length - needing 10’ for the kitchen (wall to end of island seating) and dining space, what I could potentially lose. It’s not much - maybe 1m (Original plan below)...See MoreHow would you remodel this house without costing the earth?
Comments (8)Taking out a load-bearing wall and building an extension at the front seems like quite a renovation, not a simple/cheap fix I would say. How about making that side entrance door into a window and moving the toilet over to the little nook to the left of it (looking at the door from inside the house), rather than to the right of that door? Might need the space in front of the new window to be part of the new toilet - with access from a new door put into the current space off of the Dining. Instead of removing the whole load-bearing wall, how about making a fairly big internal window in that wall, perhaps forming part of an island in the kitchen. Inserting a lintel above a window would be much easier and cheaper than knocking down the whole wall. Then replace those little windows out to the drive with larger windows including patio door/s for access to the side of the house. All of the above would get you light into your kitchen/dining, move the toilet away from the middle of the space and provide some walk-space as you enter the house to/from the patio side. Only issue is you'd probably have to walk through kitchen/dining to get outside....See MoreWhere to even start? Bottom floor remodel of townhouse
Comments (11)Could you put a turn in the stairs (this one is rather deep!) then a loo behind There’s a smiliar floor plan and photos on the attached link. i forgot to say you need to keep a loo if tne house was built after i think 1991? (being too lazy to check) and you may also need a sprinkler if the stairs are open to the kitchen and the house is more than 2 storeys. Yes to an architect but make sure it’s a registered one (you can check in the architects register). A concept planner may potentially be able to help but you would probably also need a structural engineer in either case https://www.onthemarket.com/details/11307904/#/floorplans/1...See MoreKate Hatherell
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