What shall we do with the space?!
liannerobinson1
3 years ago
We’ve just finished an extension and cant decide what to do with this space! does it need more furniture? it needs something ok the walls - but what?! Thank you for your help!
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Comments (15)Hi Jenny, What a great project! When do you get to move in? There's some fab advice above from all the pros already and whilst I'm definitely not a professional I thought it might help to share a little bit of our experience having been through almost exactly the same thing in the last 6 months and had to learn a lot very quickly! We purchased a property with a kitchen and dining space that looked almost identical to yours, both in style (!!) and structure! We had the part walls in the kitchen whereby some walls had been taken out in the past leaving nibs here and there. I've posted quite extensively in some of the other threads that Gina has listed above, so I won't give you all that detail again but if you read them and have any questions at all, just shout. All the comments above, especially from Jonathan about budget are great advice. I really would start by having a think about what you have to spend now and also what you want to spend over time to complete the project. Are you buying to make into your family home or are you thinking of selling in the midterm? I completely agree with Karen above about the structural engineer and you will almost (!!) certainly need one, so I would start asking around for recommendations and speak to a few people if you can. If you don't know of any already asking your estate agent or the company that did the survey on the house you're buying is a good place to start. Our experience was they also work a number of weeks/ months in advance so well worth starting that process. However... the part I would disagree with slightly would be when to get a concept planner and / or interior designer on board. Structural engineers are expensive, they are also very technical and my advice would be that you know what you want or have a couple of specific options before you have them around. They charge per calculation so they are not the best people to be exploring options with. A concept planner will spend time discussing what you really want for your space and how you want to live in it, both now and in the future. They can then look at the whole space you have available and make recommendations as to how you could achieve that. We used Gina from Create Perfect (above) and got her on board right at the start. We were considering extending and I was 95% certain that would be what we were going to do. We also had walls that I was 95% certain we wanted to take down. What Gina did was relook at the space and after a lot of discussions about our life and what we really wanted she came up with 6 different layouts to achieve that. We had images of each of the different layouts along with the pros and cons of each, based on what we were looking to achieve. What surprised me was how she took our brief and came up with ideas I would never have thought of (and believe me, I'd be slightly embarrassed to tell you how many hours I'd spent with a pencil and squared, scaled paper!) We didn't end up extending and we didn't end up taking down the walls I thought we would. She helped us create a superb space and by being clever about the space we spent only £14k on structural building work (not including fees) rather than the £40-50k we were looking at to extend. If we'd waited until later in the project to get her onboard we would have missed the opportunity to look at things differently and would have had far less of the budget left to do the other things that needed doing. Hope it helps and any questions at all just shout- everyone is super keen to help and I know what a massive help it was to me having advice from people who'd been through similar experiences when I was a complete novice! Best wishes, Claire...See MoreWhat shall do with this fire place ?
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Mathew Royle-Evatt
3 years agoCupboards underneath as previous comments. The ikea besta ones are good if you can get them to fit across the wall but ours was an awkward size so had to get someone in
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boatenga
3 years agoI’d put in a low bookcase that runs all the way along the bottom. Then you can fill it with books/ plants / sculptures. And then some artwork for the walls. I’d throw in a hanging planter on one side, maybe a big plant in the corner too
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