1930 Semi renovation - kitchen under stairs?
Hi everyone,
After spending hours - nay, DAYS - planning how to give the house I'm planning on buying a broken plan renovation, I think I'm at the point where I'm ready to share it with you and hear your thoughts.
First, here's the house: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/1-greystoke-crescent/whitefield/manchester/m45-7un/33681080
I'm wanting to have a bigger kitchen since I love to cook, but don't want to extend. I'm Spanish so I'm used to airy, light houses so I need to have sliding doors and lots of windows! Broken plan seems to be the right approach for us to give continuity without having to hear all the banging around in the kitchen when watching TV. The one thing I'm unsure about is how easy it is to have a larger kitchen under the stairs once we've knocked through from the hall to eliminate that ghastly galley kitchen from my nightmares. Any thoughts on this?
Here's the plan:
1- Island
2-Have the kitchen be a bit under the stairs
3 - new Partition wall to block the sound
4 - Sliding doors
And here we have some visuals:
As you come in through the door, straight through into the living room with stairs on the left.
Gas fire and TV mounted on the chimney breast with cabinets in the alcoves:
We continue to walk round through to a small seating area (island appearing on the left), sliding doors looking out onto patio:
Continuing to turn, we reach the kitchen with the island. The top left section of this would be integrated under the stairs - this is the part I'm not too sure about. Anybody had experience with this?
View from the outside, through the patio doors of the full ground floor.
Would love some feedback or any of your experiences if you considered this layout or is you have it...how is it working for you?
Comments (7)
Jonathan
6 years agoSonia RC
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoThanks Jonathan. I'm lucky enough to be getting this house under market value so I can achieve a bit more in terms of renovating it. I have not costed it out yet, but starting with an aspiration I can start crossing things off the list should they not be feasible or out of my budget range.
Thank you for pointing out the fridge. Maybe it's best to go with a simple traditional fridge or look for one that has double doors to minimise the opening span.
In terms of regulations, I'm not overly familiar with them in the UK, but with so many open plan projects being done these days I'd be surprised if this should be a problem, especially having a partition wall between the kitchen and the actual stairs - the stairs would arch over them.
I'm envisioning it like the picture below, but with a partition wall just there to cut the kitchen off.
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago Immi Taylor
6 years agoHi,
Don't be afraid to put the kitchen underneath the Stairs,I've just seen this pic on Pinterest and it still works but the fridge problem you either have to put the fridge further along the unit and the might not be so tight anyway hope this design t uh runs out grate and remember to send some pictures of the final piece
Bye
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