Major Design layout change!
HU-439561726
5 years ago
Need inspiration on what you would do to this downstairs layout.
Just bought out first home and this is the current layout. With two young kids and a nuclear family we spend most of our time in the kitchen together.
This new house had a low ceiling galley kitchen which isn’t ideal. The sitting room with the bay window is the grand room of the house and there’s load bearing walls between this and the kitchen so limited scope to convert these into two rooms (the sitting room also has a nice cornice which will be wasted if we were to break the room through to the kitchen)
There’s a garden at the back (coloured green) and a narrow driveway just big enough to fit a car along the kitchen (coloured yellow)
Any ideas gratefully accepted!
Just bought out first home and this is the current layout. With two young kids and a nuclear family we spend most of our time in the kitchen together.
This new house had a low ceiling galley kitchen which isn’t ideal. The sitting room with the bay window is the grand room of the house and there’s load bearing walls between this and the kitchen so limited scope to convert these into two rooms (the sitting room also has a nice cornice which will be wasted if we were to break the room through to the kitchen)
There’s a garden at the back (coloured green) and a narrow driveway just big enough to fit a car along the kitchen (coloured yellow)
Any ideas gratefully accepted!
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A Babbsy
5 years ago
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5 years agoA Babbsy
5 years agoI was thinking if you use the hallways in that area, it gives you a bigger kitchen (from looking at measurements)
This is area I assumed you would use.
HU-439561726
5 years agoA Babbsy
5 years agoA Babbsy
5 years agoHU-439561726
5 years agoJonathan
5 years agoashleyizz
5 years agoHU-439561726
5 years agoThis is what the upstairs looks like. 4 bedrooms and family bathroom.
Downstairs bedrooms will become dining and study so that still leaves the kitchen/family living area where we spend most of our time that would need to be reconfigured.
The sitting room is the grandest and you could potentially open it up to connect to the kitchen if you did additional structural work. So many ways to reconfigure....
tamp75
5 years agoHU-439561726
5 years agoJonathan- thank you so much for taking time out and making the effort to draft it! It’s my first post and Here are all these amazing responses!
I had a look at your design and we can’t move the kitchen to the other side due to planning permits. This is what I’ve come up with.... what do you think?
Jonathan
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoIs this a listed building, as that would possibly be why you can't move a kitchen. However, as that part of the house looks to be a later addition, I also would question that too. I'd double check as I agree with Jonathan that moving the kitchen to the other side of the house is the most sensible option and unlikely to have a restriction on it.
There are way to many doors everywhere and the house just needs opening up.
This gives a nice front to back view as soon as you enter the house. The kitchen would be on your left, very convenient, and benefit from one of the large windows and a front to back aspect. Thus it would be large, light and airy. ( sorry, missed the door off the downstairs clk )
You could also do a final tweak, down to personal preference / inconvenience for guests.........As you park over on the left, you could move the boiler to the new kitchen and put in an access point by the driveway:-
Jonathan