Desperate help with layout please
ermaza
7 years ago
Hi. I will like to make some changes to the layout of our home. The current layout has kitchen straight down the entrance hallway after which there's a small lobby and then a toilet/utility room at the rear of the house which is adjacent the dining area. I will prefer to swap the kitchen and toilet/utility room i.e bring the kitchen to the rear of the house so it faces the garden. The toilet/ utility room can be at the current kitchen position. I hope I'm making sense, sorry if I'm not. I have attached a picture of the floor plan which describes it better.
The proposed kitchen will incoperate the lobby and some part of the dining area. How feasible is this please? DH thinks it will be too huge a task but I think it can be done. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you.
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ermaza
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Carolina
7 years agoHi Ermaza, this is the only thing we can see of your floor plan, which is really not enough to get a good idea of the space and it's possibilities.
I don't know what the problem is, assuming you posted a shot of the entire floor plan?
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