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Extension/house "remodel" advice needed please!
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 Morekitchen remodel in a apartment
Comments (4)It seems a very mean sized kitchen compared to the living space. You are very restricted by the sticking out wall (what electrical are in there surely they could be re routed?) and also by the door out of the kitchen. Is there any scope to move that doorway towards the living area? This would then allow for an L shape kitchen under the window and along the back wall which would be a better use of space. If you could get rid of the nib wall then you could create a small peninsular so if you were cooking someone could perch there on a stool and chat to you. I will try and post some pictures of what I mean...See MoreRemodel and extension…ideas needed please!
Comments (6)I don't want to sound negative but in light of the fact that you would wish to change/extend so much of the house I would be tempted to keep house hunting. It is not impossible that you might find something closer to the layout that you are seeking to create. Everyone wants to put their stamp on a house but it's a slow, expensive and messy process....See MoreExterior Remodel suggestions for 1970's detached
Comments (1)To achieve that would be very costly indeed. The roof is a different pitch, probably not allowed as it's higher. The windows are also not set directly under the fascia boards in your image and lowering them if it's even possible is another expensive job. You could clad the render and consider painting or rendering and painting the brickwork. I think new windows would really change the look of the house. Modern aluminium ones in a dark grey like your image. A smarter front door would also help to lift the appearance. This would depend on how much light you might lose from a solid door instead of the glass one. Your computer image does not include the drainage items like gutters and downpipes. Maybe consider moving the downpipe around the corner but this might not be possible. I also think some type of downlighters in the same position as your image would improve the front elevation....See MoreUser
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