New house kitchen / diner ideas
6 years ago
Hi All,
I’m hoping for a bit of inspiration! We have just bought a Victorian villa with a large flat roof extension on the back and 3 strange conservatories.
It’s a good house but needs a lot of work (!) to bring it up to date and make sense of for our family. It used to have a wing but we would quite like to open up the kitchens to one big space and put some more doors on where the current utility is so we can look out onto the garden.
Ideally downstairs we’re going to use the two front receptions as formal sitting room and tv room/snug. So we definitely want a (large) utility room, possibly a play room and a kitchen diner overlooking the garden. I’m just a bit stumped as to how to adjust the layout to work best so any ideas would be great! The floor plan is below along with the pictures of the current main kitchen, wing kitchen and the conservatory off the main kitchen to give you an idea of space (not our furniture or taste I might add!):
Thanks in advance
I’m hoping for a bit of inspiration! We have just bought a Victorian villa with a large flat roof extension on the back and 3 strange conservatories.
It’s a good house but needs a lot of work (!) to bring it up to date and make sense of for our family. It used to have a wing but we would quite like to open up the kitchens to one big space and put some more doors on where the current utility is so we can look out onto the garden.
Ideally downstairs we’re going to use the two front receptions as formal sitting room and tv room/snug. So we definitely want a (large) utility room, possibly a play room and a kitchen diner overlooking the garden. I’m just a bit stumped as to how to adjust the layout to work best so any ideas would be great! The floor plan is below along with the pictures of the current main kitchen, wing kitchen and the conservatory off the main kitchen to give you an idea of space (not our furniture or taste I might add!):
Thanks in advance
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6 years ago- 6 years agoUnfortunately there’s not more garden on the west side. Here’s a picture looking back at the house so you can see...
We have a budget of around £60k
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Comments (6)Hello, Wow how exciting about the new house! Congrats! I like your ideas and where it's going - I can definitely see how the corner sofa/snug area will work well. Is there a main living room/lounge elsewhere at the property? I would be a little worried that with the corner sofa and dining table across where the sideboard is (and being that area is your main walkway with glazed doors to the garden) that it may feel like a slightly enclosed space. You could definitely add a small peninsula breakfast bar with overhang for a couple of seats - I would do this around the small boxed in wall area and have the worktop scribed to it. I would then consider having a much smaller sofa and dining table similar to the show home layout. I think the first and your main idea is probably the best layout - I would definitely try and measure the space if you can (site/show home permitting) and see what space you are left with and how the walk though space feels. If there is anything else I can help you with please do let me know. Good luck with the house and I hope it all goes smoothly. Charlie www.coveykitchens.co.uk...See MoreIdeas wanted for Kitchen/Diner/ Living Layout - which way to go?
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- 6 years agoGreat garden. Nice looking house too.
Personally I think that you should pay a designer or concept planner to help you get the right layout for you.
Obviously I don’t have any measurements or details about how you live so I have just shown what I would do if this were my house.
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