Improve ground floor layout - Victorian House
Steve Mac
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Comments (3)Wall between breakfast room and kitchen being removed as well as WC and storage room being taken out. Conservatory being re -furbed with slate roof to create one large open plan L shaped kitchen/family room. Any ideas welcome....See MoreImproving ground floor layout
Comments (17)Loads of space; loads of options. My ideas for what they're worth: (1) leave Bedroom 1 and bathroom as is. Great arrangement for grandparents/guests/au pair/ teenager/boomerang adult-child. One day you could turn the window in this room into a door for people to have own entry. (2) definitely don't get rid of the second kitchen / wash house extension. Like one person said above, it adds a nice proportion to the back of the house. Just give it some more glazing. French doors are not expensive and would suit well. You and your kids will love all the room on your ground floor when they are older. Compared with houses in other countries (Australia, NZ, USA) what you have is not that big. Families easily enjoy the space you have and can keep up with cleaning etc. (3) get rid of the butler's pantry. It doesn't look a useful shape for pantry storage. It's just a strange corridor. Then open up the wall between the dining room and kitchens, so you'll have a lovely big dual aspect kitchen-dining-lounge arrangement. Such spaces are fantastic with kids. You can keep an eye on so much, be present, and still manage to sit down yourself, or get things done. There are plenty of options for windows at both ends meaning their should be enough light. (4) Existing family room could be a big happy play room/music room/library/hobby room (whatever). Add doors onto the garden. Again, french doors would be nice and inexpensive. There are off-the-shelf products these days for all sorts of doors/windows. Or as one person you could plumb water to this room and make yourself a big boot-room / utility room. Would be great for a family that spends a lot of time in the garden. There are great pictures of these sorts of rooms on Pinterest; most of them seem to be in the US. Some even have a dog shower for muddy dogs, and underfloor heating for the wet pooch to dry on! (5) If you don't have a dedicated utility room, a utility cupboard somewhere would work well. i.e. a place for washing machine, condensing tumble dryer, some shelves for cleaning products, a fold down drying rack for bits and bobs, also doubles as somewhere to hang wet shirts, a counter top for sorting clothes. Doors that slide and fold like an accordion are good for these utility spaces. Just add some ventilation, either between the folding door panels, or top and bottom. Depending on where your boiler is located, you might also put that in the utility cupboard....See MoreDilemma planning ground floor of London Victorian House
Comments (6)As Kerry says you need the actual dimensions for proper comments. I would say one thing though, it's very unlikely that you'd be able to move the kitchen to the front room as your drainage is probably not at all conducive to that. I presume the drains are at the rear on the right. Either they are at the back or to the side of the kitchen if it's a semi or detached. My initial thoughts would be somewhere along the lines of blocking the end of the Hall, creating a downstairs loo. Changing the entrance to the kitchen by using the dining room and getting rid of the french doors. I would have the lounge as a room on it's own, the kitchen / diner as the open plan bit and a second lounge area off the kitchen. I don't have time to have a play at the mo and without dimensions it's too hard....See MoreFloorplan/layout help on 70's detatched house ground floor overall
Comments (16)I can strongly recommend open stairs - you will be amazed at how much lighter the hall area becomes, as well as feeling larger. The suggestion of pocket doors is also something that I did and have been very happy with. Second the suggestion to take kitchen cupboards to the ceiling - it makes the room feel taller and that space is really only used as a dust/grease trap otherwise. Finally, you don't have a downstairs toilet: assuming you don't intend to keep a car in the garage, why not think about that area for utility and toilet, plus maybe a study (or playroom if you have kids). Edit: I just saw that you don't want to mess with the concrete slab, which is sensible. Depending on how the soil pipes and sewers run, a toilet could just back to the wall in the current garage area. By the way, check how the heating pipes go. My house was built in 1980 and heating and plumbing run within the slab. It was only when my water bill suddenly shot up that I discovered a leak - a poor quality copper pipe had failed. Very expensive!...See MoreJonathan
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