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Need ideas for kitchen/dining/utility/office space

7 years ago

We have been living in our house/project for a year now and we are currently gathering ideas to change the layout downstairs. Attached is the current floor plan. The garden room and shed need to be demolished but we would like to use the footprint.

We would like to open up the space between the kitchen and the dining room and potentially use some of the garden room to create a bigger kitchen/diner/utility space. The "shed" would be a perfect space to have an office.

But can anyone see any other options?

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7 years ago
I think i'd be trying to unify the space by putting an extension or the very least a conservatory to link corner to corner. Something like this.
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7 years ago
I'd extend your kitchen right through into the garden room. Have units all along the back wall and have bifold doors on the garden wall. You could then put the office into the shed space and open up the kitchen into the dining room and/or have a small table at the end of your kitchen. I'd put a small utility room in the garage next to the kitchen. I'd then get a garden designer in to help me design a really beautiful courtyard garden and seating area. I really like the way your whole house focuses on your garden.
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7 years ago
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remove the wc, use the garage as shower/wc/utility (gets the noise and mess out of the way). This gives a large kitchen/dining. bi-parting pocket doors to the garden room to make it closeable as a teenagers escape/friends room yet when opened its part of the kitchen/dining. Sliding window to garden room, full width in 2 halves, full height glass, only one sliding. Put the whole unit on the outside of the wall to gain another 300mm in width. (I have detail for this), TV against window. Re-roof the garden room if possible or use a system that converts most of it into solid and insulated, so that its comfortable in winter.

Change the living room so you can do a better furniture layout by moving the fire--use a stove with a cranked chimney (boxed in) back to the old fireplace.

Whatever you do, put furniture on the plans to see if it works and if the space gains by eg an extension are any benefit--I suspect not. Don't cramp the garden corner. Light the garden at night so you don't need curtains and the rooms really feel like you are living in the garden. Its appears to have a good southerly aspect.

Use an Architect! Even if only a few hundred pounds for some ideas.

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