Floor plan and new kitchen help please

7 years ago

Plan A = Architects original, Plan B = our house as we know it. We recently found the original drawing for our home. The flow is awkward to say the least so I wanted to consider changes before getting a new kitchen so our house can work better for us. I'm not sure the original was any better. Badly placed doors, narrow corridors, wasted spaces. Can anyone tell me which walls are supporting walls please and/ or suggest the simplest

way to improve the flow. The house is ten years old. We are both in our 60s but have children and grandchildren as regular guests. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

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7 years ago

As a build on the previous suggestion, I too would consider separating the living and dining room and instead create a kitchen diner, your living room will no longer be a corridor through to another space and would be far easier to position your furniture how you want to. If it is possible to have access from the current dining area to the garden via french or patio doors you could do away with the back door to create a more usable kitchen area and a greater amount of storage (pictured). If not, whilst it would be more upheaval in terms of moving services etc, the kitchen area could switch over to the current dining room which may even provide enough room for a kitchen island.

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OnePlan
7 years ago
If you post the upper floor plans too. - that may help re supporting walls ( generally a continuation of ground floor walls is good grounds for assuming then to be supporting walls ) but always check with a SE before you pick up your sledge hammer !
Jonathan
7 years ago
Could you specifically say what doesn't work for you? Is it that you don't have enough storage, that you lack wall space for furniture, that you don't like the access to the garden, that you need a special place for a piece of furniture such as a piano or crafting area?- perhaps it's just not big enough?
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Maisie S
Original Author
7 years ago
Hi. Sorry but I assumed the supporting walls would be marked in some way! I'll get the upper plans on here but issues are - poor kitchen layout because door pavement gives an offset track out to the garden and splits the kitchen leaving a dead space. Theirs a distinct lack of storage there too and a restricted working space in the u- shaped area as only one person can be there working. There is an archway between living room and dining room at present which gives a long narrow sitting room and furniture placement is difficult to avoid blocking a way through. Also the door from the dining room opens across the archway, about half the door width. The corridor out to the hall is narrow and dark and seems to be wasted space. It's barely the width of the door and has no door casing on one side. If I'm investing in a new kitchen I'd like to se if I can make the space flow better.
Maisie S
Original Author
7 years ago
My original thought was to put it back as the original design but it seems that puts yet another door in the kitchen so breaks the space even more.
Maisie S
Original Author
7 years ago
* there is* a distinct lack of storage..oops
Jonathan
7 years ago
I think I might consider knocking the kitchen and dining room together and blocking up the opening between the lounge and dining room. I would probably move the kitchen into the larger part of the space.
I would put some big cupboards on the garage side of the former kitchen in order to provide storage and hide the washing machine and dryer.
I think you could also create a hall cupboard too.
I hope this helps.
Maisie S thanked Jonathan
Daisy England
7 years ago
Definitely have a kitchen diner. Much more sociable.
Maisie S thanked Daisy England
Maisie S
Original Author
7 years ago
Ooh.....thank you both so much for taking the time to look at this and to draw out some ideas. I can see how well this would work ..I've spent the last hour standing in the space and it would give a lovely open bright kitchen and dining room..south west facing. We don't have French doors but have an 8ft window so an easy addition to the dining space. If we kept the kitchen at the same end it saves moving drains and so on but still gives us both more storage plus a spacious dining area with view and access out to the garden. I couldn't work out what to do with the silly corridor and this makes perfect sense. Less doors in the hall too and a manageable living space - I hate that archway with a vengeance! Thanks to johnathonb1972 for the original idea and Kitchens by Mode for developing it further.

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