Relocating bathroom door or entire bathroom and kitchen
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Comments (3)Hi Janey, i believe a practical solution would be to move the bathroom to the other end of the kitchen, creating a new corridor to access the kitchen. Practical as there is a window in the correct place and you can run the soil pipe on the outside of the building / water pipes through the floor. I think the flat would have a better flow, bedrooms and bathroom closer together....See MoreChoice of big bathroom, 3 bedrooms or tiny bathroom, 4 bedrooms.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThank you Jonathan. I'm not sure where the pipe is. we are thinking including new fittings in total 15k pounds, do you think it's possible? considering budget we also have a second plan- just changing the bathroom like below:
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5 years ago297cm is not bad for a kitchen though.. Just use shallow cabinets on the opposite side and no uppers on the working side to keep it open and light (maybe a shelf over the sink or on the wall window). On the right hand the new bathroom door.
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5 years agoAs Jonathan mentions it's the soil pipe that you need to locate. It's most likely on that outside wall to the right, however, there's a possibility that as it's a flat, that it could go straight down, internally, therefore, it would be difficult to move.
Please also be aware, that unless this flat comes with a share of the Freehold and is most likely a Leasehold only flat, that you MAY require permission from the Freeholder to do any type of building work to walls. You would need to check the lease to see what you can and can't do.
If It's listed, then you have to have permission regardless.
The other thing is, you would have to go open plan with the kitchen and remove the wall where the cupboards are in the lounge as there is no window. A kitchen with no natural light isn't a good thing. You can get away with a bathroom like that, but not so much a kitchen.
I think this is a lot of work to do because a door is in the wrong place and none of the above will really add any value. However, I do prefer the layout, the bathroom is near the bedroom and the kitchen is now a nice open plan lounge, kitchen / diner.
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5 years agoAssuming your toilet has to stay where it is, I played with your layout a little.
Here I only moved the toilet door and put some furniture in to see what we've got. Probably remove the living room cupboard, but then again storage is great too:
Here I used half of the living room cupboard to gain space in the bathroom (ok, moved the toilet, just a little), so the boiler can go in there too and you could have a kitchen like I posted yesterday:
And with some extra cash you could overhaul the entire flat. Kitchen in the livingroom, will fill up the room quite a bit, but you'll get bedroom space in return, since I've turned the old kitchen into a wardrobe:
Just some quick ideas, not much detail.r Rae b
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Kitchen living dining room. All in one. Storage bench next to the kitchen, extendable table. Imagine only one upper cabinet in the corner next to the tall units with fridge and oven.
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