Advice needed please!
How on earth do I modernise this room, what colours/furniture would work in such a featureless room?
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last yearAre you wanting to change everything? If so, choose sofas first then decorate and accessorise around them. There are tons of ideas on Houzz photos or Pinterest so save pictures of rooms you love to start with. Here’s some ideas to start with.
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Comments (14)Ok, so I've never commented on Houzz before (despite being a huge reader) but the shape of your house really intrigued me as it's very charming but quite tricky. Looking at just the ground floor, I think that an extension that fills in the 'rectangle' floorpan of the whole house might work. The loo and shower should be moved so that they are not blocking off movement flowing through the ground floor. To get a bigger hallway you could move back the wall currently going into the kitchen, so that you incorporate the small window into the hall. Remove the wall by the stairs and turn the stairway itself into a feature which would make the hallway - and stairs themselves - feel much roomier (I can't see from your floorpan whether they are already open to the hallway). What's currently the kitchen could become a utility with downstairs loo (move the shower upstairs into new bathroom over new extension, taking a bit from bedroom 1?). I have recently had an extension kitchen built on our own house and turned the old (tiny) kitchen into a laundry/boot room - best decision ever with a growing family! In the utility room you could put in a stacked wash/tumbler (if you want a tumbler, or else just cupboards/laundry on top) and a downstairs loo, as well as more storage. In the new kitchen, you could have double/french/sliding/bifold doors as per your taste looking out SE into the garden, creating a long sightline - and feeling of space - from the garden right through the kitchen into the far room. This would create a spacious-feeling kitchen tied into the rest of the house. You could block up the door into the current dining room and take out the wall between the dining/living. Keeping the dining room as dining, this gives you a cosy room there for small intimate dinners but also the potential to have big dinner parties on a long extended table stretching out into the living room. When not entertaining, that slightly self-contained room (as it's not a through-route as is the rest of the house) could be used as a study/quieter reading room. You now have a house that is welcoming for entertaining - guests come through the front door, where there's space for coats/hatstands, straight through the open door into the living room and are greeted by the fireplace ahead of them, and look round to see the dining table. Downstairs loo for guests nicely separated from all the action. Please excuse my very rough sketch of what I mean, and its lack of scale!...See MoreAdvice needed Goal: seamless smooth walls Advice needed please
Comments (1)In my opinion it depends on budget. The best option is to take off the wood cladding and coving and then get a plasterer in. The budget option is to sugar soap these walls to ensure there is no wallpaper paste residue, then fill and sand any cracks and also use decorators calk to fill cracks in corners and next to woodwork. Then you need to mist coat the walls which is basically a watered down coat of paint. When that is dry it will need two rollered coats of emulsion (3 if it’s a strong colour). A very flat Matt paint shows imperfections least. After the first coat of paint check it for any bits that might need more filling. In conclusion the key to a nice finish on the walls is lots of preparation and then a low/ no sheen paint....See MoreLayout advice needed please
Comments (8)Thanks for the advice. The stairs are on the left as you walk through the front door. They start just after the existing lounge door. There is an option of putting a door into the middle of the lounge just after the stairs end. I would rather the kitchen at the back rather than the middle with a dining area separating the kitchen from the lounge. I will attach plans the architect drew up. We have decided not to go with the large extension to the rear and work with the space we have to save money as we will be selling when it is complete....See MoreElectric Underfloor Heating for large area - advice needed please!
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Postpone your decorator. As you have no idea what you want whether it’s colour or style then it will be such a waste. Choose the sofas and any other seating, even if they’re on order, at least you’ll have some idea of what to decorate around. If you like dark and moody how about a teal or navy velvet sofa? If you prefer light neutrals then a nice oatmeal coloured sofa or a tan leather. Then you can add curtains, cushions, rugs and flooring to go with the sofas. Look on Pinterest and Houzz for ideas of living rooms. With curtains, matching them to your walls always looks smart eg if you have beige walls then choose simple natural linen curtains. If you go for dark walls then choose lovely velvet curtains which always look cosy.
Betty Boo