Room layouts and what to use the “dining room” for.

6 years ago

Hi, I need some help deciding what to do with the “dining room”. I’ve planned to have a dining table in the kitchen so I don’t know what to use this space for. The previous owners have moved a wall to make the lounge bigger.
My thoughts so far:
1. Move wall back to create smaller living and more reasonable size extra room.
2. Make it in to a utility/boot room
3. Play room for my 3 children
4. Snug/spare bed?!

Help would be very useful!

Thank you

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josephinemcdonagh

6 years ago

If it’s possible I would move the kitchen wall back in line with the WC wall. Then you would not have to access the loo from the kitchen and you might give yourself enough space for coat and boot storage under the stairs. I would definitely use the dining room for a playroom so you won’t have the children’s toys all over the living room.

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6 years ago
Depends what you need! How old are your children? Could make a great ‘playroom’ aka large cupboard for their toys! Which would become a second tv room/music room etc as they get older.
Juliet Docherty
6 years ago
If you don't want the kids leaving lots of shoes and coats at your kitchen door, then a utility room with lots of coats, boots etc storage would be a good idea. Getting the laundry items in there too would free up space in the kitchen. Given that the hall looks quite narrow this could work and leave you with a clutter free hallway.
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I think your plan is good. I assume your home is a Victorian or 30s terrace as they do tend to be long and skinny, with a middle room that used to be used as a dining room in the old days. I think swopping the table to the end extension room and creating a cosy sitting room at the front of the house where the walls are red would flow better. Then you can have your office space in the middle. If the budget allows, I think knocking the wall between the kitchen and the office/dining area would widen out the room and make it less corridor like. Just a thought. I would also paint the walls throughout in one colour. Something brighter and cheerful such as an off white or pale green. The room will look bigger in a paler colour. I also think a rectangular table, if budget allows, can take up less room than a circular one and give better flow. Last weeks George Clark’s programme (C4) featured a very similar house to yours with the three rooms in a row, so may be worth catching up on to give you ideas. Here’s a few pics to inspire. 😊
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h3dgehog
Original Author
6 years ago
I have 3 children - 4, 2 and 3 months. The Hall is narrow and I don’t want the coats to take it over.

I guess it is down to me, maybe we’ll have to live there for a bit before making a decision.

Thank you x
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Create Perfect
6 years ago
I agree with the above comments that you need to think how you will be using the space over time.

Imagine the space with each of those uses mentioned. Imagine how it would look, how often it would be used and so on. This may help you rule out or decide what’s right for the space.

If you have access to the back then a boot-room seems like a good idea. If you’re at home during the day then I found a separate play room (change of scenery and somewhere to store toys) really helpful with children that age :)

All the best, Gina
A B
6 years ago
Plus you can have a coat and boot cupboard in the playroom
t_cro
6 years ago
Have a tall cupboard built into the room then it can double up as a boot room and playroom. I have coat hooks in the playroom so the kids hang their coats and dressing up stuff on them.
bfrobson
6 years ago
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Since you seem to have direct access to the garden from here, a combined utility/laundry and boot room would seem to be an ideal use.

Alternatively a study might be good when the children reach an age where they need to do homework? I don't know what kind of setup you have, but if you want to be able to monitor internet use then this could be a way of providing a room where you can more readily do so. I am assuming that as your children are still quite young they have not yet developed the mobile phone in the bedroom habit! Since they are still very young then a playroom with bookshelves and toy storage could be devised that can evolve with them as they grow?
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BetterSpace: The Floor Plan Experts
6 years ago
Hi There,

Taking into consideration the general layout of the space I think that this room could serve well as a dual purpose room, converting it to a study with a play corner for the kids could allow you the opportunity to take care of your daily admin tasks while keeping an eye on the children and as they grow desk space could be made available where they can have their own work stations.

Other more extensive options would include a side extension next to the kitchen which would allow you to open up the space more effectively and make use of natural light through the addition of skylights over the kitchen extension. This space could then become a family orientated living area while the front living room could be decreased in size or split in two to form a study and play room for the kids.

A under stair storage space could also meet your requirements of a cloak and boot room...

We hope our reply has been of some assistance in the decision making process and feel free to contact us should you require any more assistance.

I'll be more than happy to advise you further. You can contact me through our site - betterspace.co

Good luck,

Ed.

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