Victorian terrace living area layout help
Currently the living area is all open plan with a small square entrance area. An RSJ has been put in that spans the width but the supporting column one end projects from the wall where the corridor used to be. We want to reinstate the corridor (up to the start of the stairs) by putting a stud wall up straight across from the entrance area to the kitchen. We feel this would make the living area feel like a room that we could make homely and we fully intend to covert the loft in the future which will require this area to be closed off in order for building control to sign it off unless we installed some form of mist system for fire protection. However the supporting column would create a pinch point should we reinstate the corridor where the corridor might be under 60cm wide. This is pretty tight especially getting furniture upstairs so to counter this we install double doors directly opposite as the access point into the lounge. On the plans it looks ok, but i'm a bit worried in reality that won't be the case?
Other options i've thought of include angling doors at 45 degrees and have an stud wall with a square opening forming two rooms or moving the supporting column to the middle room and similarly forming two rooms but both would be more costly and we feel like the top part of the living area becomes a bit redundant
Plans
3d of new layout
Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated.
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7 years agoFirstly 60cm is not wide enough for your hall.
Secondly if you put a pillar here can you get rid of the pier in the hall?
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- 7 years ago
- 7 years agoAnother thought..... take out the wall by the front door and replace it with another making the hallway a little wider so that the pinch point is acceptable
- 7 years ago
I think we are siding with bringing the wall out now like this
Either that or the corner doors as drawn above unless anyone has any other bright ideas?
- PRO7 years ago
I really like that, it makes the lounge cosier and I didn't care much for the double doors, the wall wasn't long enough to take them in my opinion.
You could keep the hallway the same width all the way through by repositioning the RSJ. You won't need the length it is now if you put the wall back up as it can sit on that instead of the nib in the hall. More work, but you get a straight hallway & lounge wall out of it.
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