Reconfiguring Victorian ground floor - creative ideas needed
Hi all!
Very excitingly we started the groundworks this week for a ground floor wraparound extension to our Victorian semi-detached house. However, we have still not found an internal layout we're wholly happy with.
This is the floorplan with no internal layout marked up. Seems like there should be a lot of space!
And this is the best we have come up with so far for the internal layout.
While we know we have to compromise on some things, I still feel there is quite a lot of underused space here while other key areas are cramped, and I'm sure there must be a better option.
What I don't like about this layout:
- Only entrance to the house is through the snug/playroom. This will be an assault course of toys during the day to navigate (we have two young boys).
- The next section is where the roof lights are, yet this space is really underused so basically a well lit corridor.
- Shower room blocks out a key view to the garden
- the kitchen is a LONG way from the playroom/snug. Young children are limpets, I can already see they would move all their toys into the kitchen to be close to us. ,
- Only access to the living room and stairs is through the kitchen. Not a huge deal, but a bit annoying.
Please please can someone have a better idea than this!
Here is our existing floor plan, and also the new floor plan with dimensions:
Ideally we wanted to utility and shower room in the old middle room, however due to shallow drains we have to have the toilet on the left side of the house. We only have one bathroom with the one toilet at the moment, and plan to stay in this house for a long time so we simply must squeeze in the second bathroom.
We access the house through the back garden so we do need to have storage for coats and hats in this part too.
Many thanks
Scarlett
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3 years ago- 3 years ago
I used your floorplan with measurements to recreate the floorplan.
Could it be some measurements were incorrect? (walls are quite thick lol)
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Comments (16)Great ideas - all will work but I agree with Jon R - you need to live in it to get a feel for it. I did start to sketch out what you could do - but marina has done a great job of that already 😍. Have you seen the programme ’My House Made Perfect ‘ (I think that’s what it is called) some eye opening and practical designs on there. Simple solution is to move the kitchen into an L shape backing onto the front bedroom wall and creating a good space for dining or lounging area in front of the patio doors. As per my quick edit of your plan - (blue : kitchen , yellow : walls , red : storage units housing TV) Note in this if possible I would move the wall back on the bedroom just a couple feet, which would make the world of difference , lining up the storage cupboard under the stairs. You have high ceilings this gives you a sense of space - make the most of this but putting in floor to ceiling window/ patio - something like the crittal range look amazing. Your investment money is a lot but with real feature items won’t go far. But those items could be the difference between WOW and practical, it’s already practical and my gut is to spend more on the WOW 😍....See MoreVictorian converted flat - ground floor extension - layout ideas!
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Comments (17)Thank you to both tamp75 and rinked. i was hoping to utilise the wasted hall space where all the doors are. its a dark area leading to the dining room, WC, and kitchen. in the corner of the utility room is the boiler. so the niche for a basin couldn’t go there as access will be required to the boiler service door. i have wondered if a Wc could go along the wall of the utility room either a joining the study or ajoining the hall. with the door off the hall. is there enough space for this? Also i am not keen on a Macerator so can the Utility plumbing be easily adapted. its such a shame both the family bathroom and downstairs WC are in the middle of the best aspect. the Ensuite is in the area to the side of the house between the dining room and lounge. many thanks for any help....See More- PRO3 years ago
Hi Rinked,
Thanks for replying. The support wall is 1.4m, that part of the house is slightly narrower, 4.8m wide in total, and decreases to just over 4m to the back of the house where the back door and bifolds will go. Double checked, measurements should all be correct?
It's having to stay as there is an existing horseshoe steel here which we are going to keep:
Original plan was to remove all supporting walls and replace with steels, however our house is built into a hill and the extra cost of excavating and retaining walls has used up a large part of our budget!
The other side of the wall can't be made smaller apparently as that's bits the corner of the old house.
ThanksScarlett
- 3 years ago
Ok, so more like this?
Though I completely understand budget issues (me&hubs have been renovating our house for 10 years, new projects every time we have some savings left), that chunk of wall sure is a ..well.. chunk! There is no option to slim it down? (as this might be the only chance you have! no pressure, wink wink)
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3 years agoPersonally I would have a macerator in order to put a shower room closer to the bottom of your stairs
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rinked