Need ideas re design please
I will also be having an island but forgot to draw this on my plan. Any ideas are welcome re any of the layout. Thanks for any help you can give.
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Comments (2)Hello Sarah, I would always recommend using a sample board. Often elements, paint colours and fabrics can look lovely in isolation but it's only when you see them together that you can decide if they work. If it works on the board it will work in the room. I'm guessing from your description that your new kitchen will be contemporary and you're wanting a tile or flooring material, for example Karndean, that will zone but not sever the dining area? One idea we've used in the past is to use two similar tiles. If you have dogs, you might find a wood effect tile or something like a mid or dark grey 600mm x 300m would work - matt (and non slip) but not riven. We've used Walls and Floors and Tons of Tiles quite a bit in the past. Regards Amanda...See Moreneed help to re-design a space i've chosen
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Comments (12)I do like the OnePlan en-suite option but it would be very, very small for an en-suite and I'd have to dig up the floor to add another toilet, all of which can be avoided if I just leave the downstairs bathroom as it is....I have guests who stay regularly and no one has complained yet. I think this would be an unnecessary expense, love to do it but must be mindful of my budget. I definitely agree that it would be less annoying and more private for my guests to access the bathroom and their bedroom off of the hallway and not the living/dining room, so I shall try and come up with something else for coat storage. kikiamack Unfortunately there is not enough space even when making the double doors into a single to squeeze coat storage into the corner :(...See MoreSarah Baker
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5 years agoI'm in Jonathan's Gang again. I think the kitchen will be lost at one end with no peninsula or Island. Plus, if that's a bank of units on the pantry / utility wall presumably there's no workspace there. So, I think it's lacking work space.
I too think the pantry and Utility would be better split as an En-Suite to Bedroom 1.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoAlthough the author has said this is a a bungalow. I think it's a chalet bungalow. There are stairs on the plan, and on the hand written plan, it says downstairs bathroom, implying that there is an upstairs.
Thus I believe, that the master bedroom is upstairs, which is why there is room for the pantry and utility downstairs.
However, I still think it's not quite right yet, and for me, the balance of space is out of whack.
I'm wondering what the whole layout is and where the soil pipe is?
Can't really have a re-jig ( and it wasn't requested ), without knowing where the main drain is.
I think at this stage a concept planner would be worth a visit...............they will work out to the cm what fits where etc, which an architect quite often will not. The Utility and Pantry for instance. There is no need for them to be bigger than 1800mm deep. Working off appliance and unit sizes, that gives you three blocks of 60cm, obviously you have to have room for manoeuvre and the concept planners know all of this............so they will let you know exactly how much wiggle room you need for things.I would have both doors in the kitchen. I think nipping in and out of the utility from the kitchen is handier than going in to the hall and then back out to the garden with washing etc. The counter argument is that it's handier for the bedrooms to have the door in the hallway. I would prefer a utility room off my kitchen, not accessed from the bedroom area..............personal choice.
I think the kitchen needs the most work. By separating as Jonathan and I did and putting in an island you instantly get 3 metres more workspace, which is really lacking in the original render.
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5 years agoMATH makes a good point that we don’t know if the homeowner prefers to sleep upstairs in which case a great main bedroom and lots of bathrooms downstairs may be underused. So I offer a couple of alternatives.
Regarding the utility room debate- I am
Of the opinion that if you have a kitchen big enough to include a freezer and you have additional pantry storage you don’t need a utility room you need a laundry room. Whether this needs to be near a door to the garden depends on where you dry your washing- personally all of my washing is dried inside.
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5 years agoSorry for the poor quality. No other way to post them without taking screenshots
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5 years agoIf it were me and there was only two living here I would spread out and have a bigger living space, save money by not adding underused bathrooms and spread out on the top floor, have a better bathroom up there and use the second upstairs room as a dressing room.
When you later come to sell you can make the XBox room and dressing room look like bedrooms so that you can sell it as a four bed.
If you are concerned about the high unopening window on the side you can dress it to look bigger and grander by putting tall plantation shutters in front of it and adding full length drapes.
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