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Looking for ideas and suggestion to make kitchen lighte

2 years ago

We have a kitchen area where natural light is very limited. We are thinking of taking down the wall as you come thru the door. Talking to a structural engineer there is a way to do it to assure to keep support.
However would love to do something with the wall along the stairs (between staircase and kitchen) that also meets fire and safety reg (3 story Victorian house)
There is a basement also and would love to make it habitable and create a natural flow/natural part of the kitchen
We are stuck on ideas. Any suggestions welcome

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rinked
2 years ago
How will removing the wall add light to your kitchen?
Ellie
2 years ago
I think I can see which wall you mean .... the huge chunk of wall coming down from the ceiling that ends about 6m from the floor? That is very odd and I do think if that were gone the room would look brighter and better!

The stair wall, the odd sloped shape would annoy me, I'd want to build in some storage but see you have a radiator that could be moved or changed to vertical?
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Zsanett Ruff
Original Author
2 years ago
Yes that weird wall hanging . That can be removed and we are hoping it will create a more natural flow as currently makes that area much darker. Along itself obviously won’t bring in more natural light but optically might make the place brighter as won’t be there an object .
We were thinking to remove the wall along the stairs as it’s not a load baring wall but because it’s a 3 story house you can’t from a. Fire build reg point of view .

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