Layout help for kitchen/lounge/diner. Please help

3 years ago

As you will see from the photos we have a very large lounge and small kitchen. The plan is to make the lounge smaller (5m) length, take the existing wall out between the lounge and kitchen and put a stud in to make the new smaller lounge and have a larger kitchen with hopefully somewhere to fit in a table or breakfast bar/island.
The window on the left of the lounge is high and obscured glass. I have no idea where to put the new door going into the kitchen. Originally I wanted double sliders in the middle but this would take up a lot of room in the kitchen with the extra opening required so maybe best to put a door either left or right.
There is also a small porch attached to the kitchen. It really serves no purpose so any ideas to incorporate it into the kitchen would be great. We may even knock it down and have bifolds where the sink currently is.
Any ideas would be so much appreciated because I just can’t see the finished article in my head. Thanks so much.

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Sarah Baker
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
I think shortening the lounge is a great idea. Could the new kitchen door go through the cupboard in the hall next to the shower room? This would make the new wall nicely balanced with the window in the new dining room.

If you want help with visualisations, I offer 10 hours of design work for £250 which gives you a full design and the confidence to proceed with any supplier of your choice. If you want to have a no obligation chat to bounce some ideas around, feel free to get in touch 😊

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I like the layout- I don’t think you can do much else and there is not enough space for an island and a peninsula would cut down the kitchen space. Personally I think the extra storage at the dining end is useful. Personally I think there are a couple of extra things you could consider:- Firstly there are drawers under the hob flanked by cupboards. Personally I would rather see a wall of drawers to give you longer horizontal lines to make the space seem wider. Secondly I would prefer the storage at the dining end of the room to stop 300/400mm from each corner for an unfitted look which I think also contributes to a feeling of space. If there is no bin planned then you need that planned in a cabinet on the sink wall. Personally I prefer to see a wider raised cabinet over the hob as I think the likely lower cabinets each side crowd the hob. It looks like your fridge opens the wrong way and doesn’t fit in the units. I would rather see an integrated fridge- if it has to be free standing don’t build cabinets around it, put it at the end of the run. I think fitting cabinets around a fridge frames it and I think normally we only put a frame around treasured pictures not the plainest lump of metal in the house. Next you say the dining area feels too formal- I would make it more comfortable , choose a round table and upholstered chairs with a chandelier over. Flooring- your choose kinda depends on the kitchen cabinet choices. If you choose wood in your kitchen then porcelain tiles laid on the diagonal will help it seem wider. A wood floor direction can also help it feel wider. A rug under the table will also help the room seem less long. Lastly consider the lighting. Of course it needs to be light enough to cook but when you are sat relaxing or entertaining at your table you need to be able to switch off the ceiling lights in the kitchen and create an ambiance from under cabinet lighting, an over table light (with a dimmer), lighting in the dining end storage (glass cabinets?) or walk over lights that spill light up the wall
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I’m not 100% sure I have the dimensions or orientation correct - hopefully I have. I definitely agree with taking out the stud wall between the kitchen & hall. I presume you will replace it but further away from the back wall of the house which will lengthen your kitchen. If you keep your kitchen in its current room I think you could have your run of tall cupboards as proposed in the new kitchen plan but switch the orientation of the island to run in parallel to that wall. Put the hob on the island and you will look towards the dining area as you are cooking. Having the island parallel to the tall cupboards is also a more modern look. If you take out the wall between the kitchen & current dining area too you would have the scope to make that run of cupboards a bit longer too by taking them over to your double-doors. I think you need to make that whole space at the back of the house feel like one large room (kitchen diner) - which could be achieved by including some of the same kitchen units in the dining side. Are you keeping the fireplace if you keep the kitchen in its current space?
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Sarah Baker
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3 years ago
Hi Emily. Thanks for your idea but unfortunately the cupboard in the hall is no longer there as we have done a loft conversion and there is now a stairway there.
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3 years ago
Hi Sarah,

It is a really long lounge and it sounds like you've got some good ideas. I offer an online Home Design Workshop if you'd like help to figure out the architecture of the space. Happy to have a chat with you to see if it would be right for you.

Possibly you could move the kitchen into the lounge and make it a kitchen diner with the dining to the front. Then make the kitchen into a lounge that opens up more to the garden, taking away the back porch.

Jane, i-architect.co.uk

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