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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PROOnePlan
4 years ago
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Maths Wife
4 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.
Sarah Baker
4 years agoThanks 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.
Danny Jay
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Maths Wife