Congratulations on your new Spanish property purchase! Two suggestions to help you plan your space: 1. mark on your plan exactly where ALL water and gas supplies are, to help with planning your kitchen. It can also be useful to mark the positions of other key services - electrics, boiler / heating, etc. 2. cut out pieces of paper to the same scale and shape as all the items of furniture and kitchen units that you want, and play around with them - take photos each time you reach a result that you like. From my experience of working as an architect in Spain the building regulations and permit requirements are quite different to the UK. Things like gas runs are controlled differently and water, especially drainage, are also dealt with differently. Speak with a local arquitecto or arquitecto tecnico, to help you assess what can and can't be repositioned. It looks to me as though moving your kitchen to the right hand side of the plan where you have "dining room area?" marked may use the space better, but this might not work in relation to the services needed.

Hi, I would also keep the utility where it is on the original plan. You could make it slightly narrower so it doesn't eat into the living area as much, just as long as you leave at least 650mm from the back of the units up to the door frame to allow you to fit the units in comfortably. You do look to have a lot of space in the kitchen so you could integrate units in here e.g larder units to give you plenty of storage which means you can just use the utility room for coats/boots and laundry. Hannah

Given that the wall where the hob is 2 meters in the Kitchen would it help if you have full height units along that wall instead of a few wall units. You can have a fridge freezer then a tall unit to house your oven and or microwave and have a corner sink. or have tall units on either side and have the sink where the hob is currently. that will help increase your storage space and also have a lot of units put in. You could then have a 1.8 meter kitchen island with your hob etc with more storage and breakfast bar etc. if you can extend into the current dining area slightly even 60cm that will help add another tall unit. Presume you already have a toilet under the stairs. You could move the current door at the back which is on one corner to the middle with bifold doors as you will not have any units there. That will give you more light and a view of the garden. you can build a utility room with your washing machine dishwasher and also have a pantry . As it is one open space would try to have a raised dining area even if it is 15cm and drop it back in the kitchen area. That will give a bit of height in the dining area and guests can get a glimpse of the garden even when they are seated beyond the kitchen island… Would recommend a wooden floor running all the way from the living to the kitchen. i would lay it in a Chevron pattern drawing your eyes all the way to the garden. if you raise the floor in the dining area, you can create some clever storage there.

Hi Ella, It's quite difficult to understand your project because the plan doesn't give enough information. When you're starting a design project it's really important to give people who will be helping you with the design the right information so they can help you in a way that really does deliver what you need and want. I call this designing your home vision - once you have that it also makes it easier for you to make the right decisions for you. I'm running a free & no obligation 5 day Get Ready To Redesign Your Home Challenge - which is a week with access to me for daily q&a as well as a quick and easy daily task to help you start designing your home vision. I'd love to help you prepare for your home design. It's an exclusive event so you need to be signed up to take part. Here is the link to join in: https://www.i-architect.co.uk/readytoredesign.html You will get emails during the event to let you know the daily details, but once the 5 days is over you are welcome to unsubscribe from those if they are no longer useful to you.