Small bungalow layout - ideas please?
Hi,
My fiancé and I moved into our first home (a three bed bungalow in the south west of England) 6 months ago and have spent the past few months spending more time inside than we otherwise would have! We have been thinking about how we can improve the layout of our house, but are going around in circles.
We would like to create space for a kitchen diner, whilst (ideally) maintaining the the garage space for storage. The sun room is too hot/too cold and currently being used as a utility room. Our front garden gets the evening sun and currently there is a lot of wasted space in our living room as we end up lounging in only half of it. We are keen to work with the existing footprint of the house to keep costs down.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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kazzh
3 years ago
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Darren
3 years agoThere are loads of options, a few ideas. I was adamant about losing too much garage space, but it was worth the conversion, we have a very small garage just for bikes. Anything else you can put up a shed/workshop in the garden. I would have s big entrance that flows left for sleeping and right for living.
Caroline
3 years agoDarren
3 years agoYes you could with the existing footprint, one idea is you could have a separate laundry:
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