Ground Floor Plan Help...Please!?
Hi there,
I am hoping to get some input on how best to plan the ground floor of our home as my husband and I seem to be going round in circles! We are adding a singe storey extension, which will need to incorporate kitchen, dining room, family area and utility room. We will be closing off an existing living room/dining room, to turn that back into a separate 'living room'. Please see current floor plan and proposed layout, which we are still not 100% sure about. Any input would be gratefully received!
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6 years agoJonathan
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI think I would have moved the laundry room so that you have an uninterrupted sight line from the front door. Personally I think having to have the kitchen sink under a window to the garden is a bit dated so I moved the kitchen so you could have bigger doors to the garden. I say get two dishwashers and resolve never to stand at the window washing dishes again.
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Comments (10)Your home currently looks good and there's nothing majorly wrong with it. You may find that for now, you want to inject some of your own personality decorative g wise but leave any structural work. I'd definitely do as Carolina has suggested by living in it and seeing how you use the space. You may find that things may not work for you whilst others do. This will allow you to make effective and efficient changes. I like how there's a few steps to the lower level. I wish we had been brave enough in our renovation to create internal steps to have a more efficient outside which doesnt Descend drastically. All the best....See MoreHelp please with colours for Ground floor extension and Roof Dormers
Comments (7)I love dark exteriors but if this was my property having the same work as you I’d go with the type of colours Jonathon suggested but I’d definitely be a incorporating a covered porch especially since the front faces south and you are disrupting the roof already. They are the incredibly useful as well as giving an attractive and unusual architectural element. Re colours I think you should post examples and ask people’s opinions?? The ones I’ve attached aren’t suggestions but just reference images to drive consideration...See MoreGround floor layout help please!
Comments (3)If the house is small, there is not much you can do. Other than adding an extension to the rear and creating an open plan kicthen / dining room with a small seatign area. One house i recently designed....See MoreGround floor layout help please
Comments (35)Had another little play around based on your new measurements and forgoing a separate living room. You have such a big kitchen/dining it would be more manageable with some zoning to keep it from feeling like a warehouse! In the hallway, sideboard with shoe storage, space for bench, coat hooks and full mirror maybe. Snug/Tv room / study in place of the small living room. Soft seating in the kitchen/diner instead. You could replace the top left desk in the snug/study for a built in cupboard / wardrobe for winter coats, boots, outdoor wear. Make it the same depth as the chimney breast so it blends in well. Under stairs storage. Utility room is bigger, so you can actually hang dry clothes in there, with hanging rack or those ceiling mounted racks, so long as you get a powerful extractor fan 150mm minimum! None of those 100mm weedy ones :) The weird blob in the kitchen is an indoor plant :-D...See More- PRO
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoAgreeing with Jonathan. Whilst i'm not a concept planner, and, everything needs a proper measure out. I'd go with a better Family room if that's what you wanted, as on the plan it's more of an area I believe. I'd try to move the plumbing for the washing machine etc over to the other side for a Utility area on the right, and get the Front to Back feel that Jonathan mentions.
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6 years agoI've just completed a similar plan layout. I used to have a dining room with the kitchen at the far end which was abit of a trek. It's far more of a useable space to have the kitchen nearer as opposed to the far side of the house, then have your kitchen table then snug by the garden. The picture is before it was finished but it gives you an idea!!!
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6 years agoThank you so much for the input, especially to Jonathan for adapting the plan. It's really interesting because our initial goal was absolutely to open up the line of site right from front to back, but the reason we changed our minds is because we were going to end up with a very small utility room, that seemed almost not worth having. We also have a dog, so the goal was to have some way of containing the mess! We are changing an existing window to a door to do this in the utility room I showed.
1. Moving the kitchen to where Jonathan suggests means we would lose use of an existing chimney breast, where we planned to have a wood burner in the planned 'family area'.
2. The existing wc also needs to be made larger as it's currently under the stairs and my husband can't stand up(!)
I am attaching another picture that the architect initially drew where you can see the small room to the right of the 'corridor' is intended to be the utility room...
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