Layout help! Shall I move the kitchen to back of house? Open plan?
Hello! Hoping for some advice! We’re in the process of buying a new home, current floorplan below! We will be bringing the walls between the dining room & study/playroom down into the lounge to make one big open space with bifolds across the back, it is a south facing garden. We are unsure whether to keep the small kitchen separate where it is or to bring the kitchen into the back of the house. If we did we’d make the current kitchen an office/utility but we’re concerned about it being too tight in the back room for a kitchen along with dining table and a sofa/tv area. We are planning to also convert the garage into a snug along the line! Thanks in advance :)
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Lindsay X
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Comments (9)I’ve spent far too long looking at this! I agree with Jonathan and others that incorporating your garage into your living space in this way will always feel separate and I really don’t think it will give you what you want. I would hesitate to change the proportion of existing rooms as you have drawn with cutting the room across the fireplace- I think you always ‘feel’ that in a room. It also increases costs with steels to support the structure. I like Jonathan’s idea of the middle room connecting from the back of an enhanced kitchen area. We did that in our previous house and it worked really well as a kid’s space/ TV room with them right by you. I had great storage so all trace of child could be removed for a relaxing adult evening ( highly recommend).We wished we had installed pocket doors so we could shut away noise sometimes as they got bigger ( TV, noisy board games). I think Jonathan is right about the drainage too so keep your utilities to that side of the house. I also think handyman is right about the garage and access through. I think you could pinch a bit of garage if you did end up moving your utility but ongoing families just have ‘stuff’: bikes - they get bigger, lawn mower, top box for car, body boards, garden chair cushions, Christmas decorations, half used paint pots, tool set....I think you need a decent amount of storage to function well. I like Jonathan’s extension idea coming in front of the garage ( though take note about front/ back access) but wondered if you could utilise the conservatory/ utility space more effectively and perhaps create a slightly longer ‘arm’ on that side of the house to achieve what you want. In summary- don’t quite think that plan works; respect the room proportions that are there and adapt the space; think about longevity of use, flexibility of a space and storage; think about flow of people traffic and lines of sight and visualise yourself in a proposed space. I’m not a professional but have renovated 4 times in 30 years of marriage and family so bringing some experience. Photos below not hugely helpful but wanted to show that existing proportions of rooms retained but opened up and new extension added to create the space we wanted overall. Good luck with an exciting project!...See More
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2 years agorinked
2 years agoOpening up the back might require a support where the bedrooms meet, as it's the exterior wall. Though there might be enough ceiling height for the required steel size.
I am not certain how to layout a kitchen in the back though (without compromising on other areas), so I made an empty floorplan..
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2 years agoAnd another empty one, but with a new entry. Laundry space, understairs storage, wc.
Lindsay X
2 years ago
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