Kitchen planning help please!
Hello
We are in the early planning stages of a ground floor extension. The current plan is to move the kitchen to where the lounge currently is. I am struggling to get a kitchen configuration that feels right as there seems to be a lot of doors in awkward places, so I thought I'd ask on here. Here is the plan of the empty room.
The external doorway into the porch can be blocked up, the doorway into the utility room isn't there yet, so can be moved. The wall at the bottom of the picture is also a proposed one, so can be adjusted if needs be. There are currently 2 sets of French windows, which I thought to change to a bifold door if this would work.
Kitchen requirements:
I would like an island which can seat a good number of people
I do a lot of entertaining and baking so a lot of storage and worktop space is necessary
I would love a larder/pantry cupboard where I can store baking ingredients/use mixers etc, a bit like this one...
And I don't mind a hob on the island, but not a sink.
Any ideas would be most gratefully received!
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PRO7 years agohi there I would advise you to hire a interior designer of because there can be a lot of different options for replacing a kitchen and it will be very convenient to sit with interior designer, and talk, with a pencil
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7 years agoThanks for your comments. Here is the current floorplan
We need a bigger kitchen. We also need a lounge no smaller than the one we already have, and a dining room we can use to seat 16 family and friends at a table ( we have a table which can extend to over 5m). We have spoken to an architect and he has not got the idea of what we want at all. I have been thinking about finding a concept planner/interior designer but have no clue how much that would cost, or where to find one :)... so thought I would try my hand at it myself! We don't want to do too many major structual changes. Here is what I have come up with.
And here is a picture of the front of our house
and one of the lounge wall/patio
The house is on the side of a hill and the garden behind slopes up quite a bit, with a 1.5m retaining wall, making extending out the back a bit less of a possibility. The lounge was previously a garage I think, so the wall between the lounge and the rest of the house was previously an external wall and not very movable!- 7 years ago
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Yes agree that we definitely need some good outdoor space! Saying that however, we used our patio extensively last year but have not sat out once this year yet !! We have a fair bit of space around us but unfortunately very little flat garden - the flattest bit is out the front of the house... the joys of Wales! here is our house from above, from the patio and along the front
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I think if it were me I would be doing something like this.
In my opinion because the house sides onto the highway is looses some presence so the solution is to make the side facing the road look bigger, facing the front door towards the road and adding some windows facing the road on that blank side wall.
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