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Help with floor plan

27 days ago

We would love some ideas with the floor plan as struggling to see how we can better use the space. We would love to add double doors to the garden in the kitchen (where the sink is) and make a large kitchen diner. We would love to add a spare room - if space down stairs. Would like to keep a snug for the children’s toys! Thank you

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chloeloves
26 days ago
Hi are you able to extend the kitchen into that odd small area between sitting room and kitchen. That would give you a decent kitchen/diner. You could then lose the dining room and turn it into spare room? I would have said the snug was ideal gmfor guests as close to bathroom however you would have to go through the snug to get to utility so wouldn’t be ideal. Would you be happy to sacrifice dining room or do you use it a lot?
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Devyra Atelier
26 days ago
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There are many foundation wall around the stairs which probably cant be removed

If it were me i Will make extention to the opposite of the garden and move the kitchen there

Use the previous dining as spare room maybe for study or guest bedroom

I Will make the awkward corner in living room as bar area or reading nook with bookshelf and I wonder if it possible to create two new window in Sitting that faces the garden just leaves alcoves in the middle(not the current one at the corner)
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