kitchen floorplan options
Hi,
This is the house we are buying. Private sale, so no estate agent details / plans. Apologies for the bad plan and photos attached! Pencil lines are whats currently there. Kitchen isnt labelled, oops, but its that U-shaped run of cabinets.
Basically, we know that the purple wall will come down, and the windows at the top of the plan will be some kind of bi-fold / sliding door to open into the garden. To the right of the plan is our next door neighbour, hence no windows. (there are neighbours to the left of too, joined up to the end of the dining room) Picture on left shows the current route to the kitchen (red line) which makes sense as it allows for a nice u shaped kitchen. Keeping that route to the kitchen allows us to put in units roughly in the orange shape. But I dislike that the dining room will be just a corridor, escpecially as I'd like to use it as a playroom and just close the door on it!
However the 2nd plan with the blue route to the kitchen means getting good runs of cabinets would be difficult. Some photos are attached. The one of the fridge freezer is me stood in the dining room-kitchen archway and the current back door to the left. Then you can see the current kitchen, and finally the current sitting room. There is a downstairs shower and toilet to the left of the sitting room.
So......would you reinstate the door to the kitchen from the hallway, in which case how to lay out the kitchen, or have a more practical u shaped kitchen with entry via the dining room?
(the yellow items are the sofa and breakfast bar stools - I don't want a dining table but do want a breakfast bar and sofa, they're pretty non negotiable). I can't afford to start moving the downstairs loo etc.
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Comments (7)I would be inclined to have more of a U-shaped kitchen (or n-shaped looking at it this way up), with the cabinets starting to the right of that small window and continuing round the top wall to a peninsula between kitchen and dining area. You could do that and still have the sofa where it is in the first option. The fridge placement depends on where everything else is. The plans don't show where the sink, range, ovens, dishwasher, etc. are. Conventionally, the sink is in front of the window, though there's no law saying you have to have it there. You probably want the dishwasher next to the sink. If that were the case in option 1, your refrigerator is at the opposite end of the room from the sink. Depending what sort of cooking you do that might mean a lot of trips back and forth to get produce, wash it before prepping and cooking. On the other hand, you don't want the fridge too far into the kitchen as it is the one appliance that other people need easy access to for getting drinks and snacks. A piece of advice I was given was to plot our cooking on a plan. That might mean a line from fridge to sink to get cabbage to wash, another line to food processor to chop it, then to the range to cook it, to oven to turn it on, to pantry to get potatoes, etc. etc. Then you get to see how efficient the layout is. Or it might just be from freezer to microwave to dining table. A lot will depend on lifestyle. For me, both options seem quite elongated. Definitely, I suggest you start to think about where everything is going to go before making a call on the fridge. I would also think in terms of what you want/need. If you want a sofa there, then you can work that in. I would not put a dresser or hooks there unless that's what you need. Otherwise you'll just end up looking for stuff to put in the dresser or hanging stuff on hooks that really should be put away someplace else. You have a good sized place to plan around, so you should be able to ends up with something that suits you and looks good. In terms of saving money, we have friends who bought a second hand kitchen on eBay. Someone was renovating their kitchen and sold all their units online. It worked for them because they didn't have any awkward spaces to plan around. The end result was fantastic, though it did involve hiring a van and driving across London to collect it. Lastly, you need to recharge your phone battery....See MoreFloor plan options
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How about closing off the playroom, adding a door to the garden. Then having the kitchen by the bifolds, and a sofa (or could be dining table) on the new wall (pink). This is obviously not to scale, so may not work. The space has potential to get everything you want with clever furniture and layouts, so I'd definitely contact a designer. Good luck
- 8 years ago
This is the view of the house from google earth and you can see that half of the side return is already built on, to house the downstairs toilet and shower. So we’d only gain another 1m and I dread to think how much it would cost! I think I’ll investigate how much it will cost and how easy it will be to move the toilet and reclaim that area into the kitchen diner....
I also like the idea of blocking up the dining room to kitchen entrance and the current backdoor to make that corner useable....and hopefully that won’t cost the earth....
Jonathan