Victorian House Side Return Extention
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Comments (2)A bathroom at the front may not be completely out of the question. We have previously installed a bathroom and en-suite back-to-back with the latter to the front of a Victorian mid-terrace. The soil pipe ran horizontally down in the middle of the house (where wears added a downstairs WC beneath the stairs), and ran beneath the suspended timber floor (with the correct fall) on the ground floor to the drains at the rear of the property. Without knowing more details it is difficult to say for certain whether it would work, but it is possibly worth exploring....See MoreBest Galley Kitchen Layout? Victorian Terrace w/o Side Return
Comments (0)Hi all, hoping you experts can help me. I have a Victorian Terrace with a slightly awkward kitchen layout. It's very thin (less than 2m) and not wide enough to have cabinets on both sides. The 'internal' wall (ie on the right, facing into the house) currently has full width cupboards and the oven and fridge. The 'external' wall has a half-width set of cabinets (they're actually wall cupboards, but whatev). The cieling is quite low. We currently use the 'dining room' as labelled on the floor plan as our lounge as I don't like slobbing out in a room facing the street. If you were to rearrange the layout of this kitchen WITHOUT an extension/building work (I'm upsizing in a few years), what would you do? Would you move the appliances? Thanks!!...See MoreVictorian style in a non victorian house?
Comments (18)Given the sideways chimney and wide window I think this house will always feel kinda mid century or modern and so Victorian adornments probably won’t do what you are thinking. Furthermore a TV over a fireplace is uncomfortable to watch and will likely make you more aware of the ceiling height. Plus adding coving will highlight the different ceiling heights. Do you really want this house to feel Victorian (which it probably never will) or do you just want the decorating style to be fancier than your previous house? Maybe the starting point should be your existing furniture and what you have to work with..... perhaps you already have a contemporary sofa and in this house you choose to decorate the walls in warmer shades..... or use wall paper or wall panelling? Instead of a contemporary floor covering at the last house perhaps you might choose a warm hardwood for this one or something patterned such as a Herringbone woven carpet? Instead of downlighters and a ceiling pendant perhaps you might choose wall lights and walk over lights here? And given that the chimney is clearly to the right you can remove a lot of the current chimney breast replacing it with side by side TV and fireplace which means a well planned wall with electric flame effect fire (so needs no chimney and can be used year round) and TV at eye level when sitting....See MoreKitchen Victorian terrace - without building into side return
Comments (9)Thanks both! We’ve had the ‘small extensions aren’t worth it’ comment too - but still exploring whether it might be worth it to us if just grabbing a 1.5 metre by 2.72 metre bit of extra space at the end of the kitchen means we can run our kitchen table either (a) parallel to the new end wall patio doors with the kitchen units fitted galley style down both sides of the remaining kitchen or (b) parallel to the side return wall with kitchen units down the full length of the opposite side… Since our house is split level with steps down to our kitchen it’s not so feasible for us to build into the side return to any great extent since this then means the steel of the new roof over the side return slices through the middle of the window in the back living room… hence the only feasible alternative might be to build into half of the side return leaving a very small 1 metre by 1 metre courtyard adjoining that back living room window (or not building into the side return at all). Could we fit a kitchen table seating 6 people into a 2 metre by 2.72 metre space?...See MoreJonathan
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