Layout advice needed please
We are in the process of extending into our loft to create more bedrooms and a bathroom. The downstairs layout is creating design problems for us particularly as we are useless at imagining things. We will be getting a kitchen designer but I know people on here are usually brilliant at coming up with layouts.
The plan is to have an open plan lounge, diner, kitchen using the existing lounge and kitchen.
We don’t know whether to take the wall down between the 2 or just part of it. Would there be room for an island?
Where would you put the sofas and tv? We can move the door between the lounge and hallway as there will be stairs in the hall. The front window is almost as wide as the width of the house.
We will knock down the rear porch unless there is a practical way of keeping it as we want bifold doors into the garden (where the existing kitchen window is, above the sink).
Sorry for rambling on but we could really use some help. Thanks so much
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Comments (7)Gina, I'm not really sure why i put it there to be honest!! The suggestion to locate the shower as shown on Jonathan's plan obviously makes much more sense! Some of my design thought was based on me thinking the toilets would need to be on the same wall so as to use the same soil pipe, not sure if this is just my incorrect logic though!??? Jonathan, I understand what you are saying about incorporating the cupboard space into bedroom 3 but if you remember back the plan (see below) was to create a study/bedroom from the hallway, old wc and landing cupboard. It wouldn't be possible to do this if we divided bedroom 3 into two rooms as they'd be no access to the far bedroom. Your plan would leave me with no more bedrooms than i have now and with a smaller bed 3. We could of course incorporate the cupboard space into bed 3 rather than the bathroom, making it an even bigger room but I'm slightly reluctant to as this room is one that has been finished....See Moreadvice needed for utility and cloakroom layout please!
Comments (9)If you keep the Hallway door where it is, it makes things more difficult. The toilet is best placed between lounge and Utility, so if you keep the doorway there, you would enter a long narrow space, making the basin difficult to place. Also, are you taking out the Chimney Stack?. I'd go for integrated appliances rather than stacking as you have plenty of room, and something a little like this possibly. Of course it also depends on whether or not you want access from the kitchen because of washing etc, or the Hallway because that's easier for the coats and shoes. Choice is yours....See More
7 years agoI think first and foremost i'd rectify the entrance to the kitchen / Diner area, as currently you have to walk through the lounge:- As Karen @ OnePlan says, where are the stairs going?
Something like this may work for you.
- 7 years ago
Thanks for the advice. The stairs are on the left as you walk through the front door. They start just after the existing lounge door.
There is an option of putting a door into the middle of the lounge just after the stairs end.
I would rather the kitchen at the back rather than the middle with a dining area separating the kitchen from the lounge.
I will attach plans the architect drew up. We have decided not to go with the large extension to the rear and work with the space we have to save money as we will be selling when it is complete.
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