Improved layout with minimum changes
Hi, our house had an extension added years ago that we wish never happened. See the plan attached. A study was added, and the kitchen was extended alongside (previously it had been aligned with the dining room).
Clearly, I hate having the fridge in the hall behind the door and also the dark corridor to the study room.
Initially we wanted to rebuild the extension but we would need to wait for years until we had enough funds. Now we'd like to get away with minimum changes as the new kitchen is an expensive project on its own.
Below is how we think it could work for us. But there's as small problem, the kitchen door again. Wherever it opens, it blocks something. I wonder how it would have been originally, as we are planning to move it back to its old place.
Any ideas and suggestions? We do not want to connect the kitchen with the dining room or the utility room. Not sure if we can use the storage room space, as some of it might be under stairs.
Thank you for your time and advice!
And yes, we have that old-fasioned serving hatch and we might choose to keep it.
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Gabby Wong
4 years agoWhat about this? Keep the understairs storage in the hallway but square it off and then put a sliding or pocket door we’re the blue line is?
If a pocket door could still put something useful in that corner of the kitchen have a sliding door with glass to allow more light into the hallway?
Alternatively if you don’t need the shower then could see about putting a toilet in the understairs storage area and have a larger utility room
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4 years agoThey do have walls on both sides.. I wouldn't make the door into the kitchen any narrower than you have to.. I think that 800mm is standard for a door, and carrying in bags etc, it'll be awkward, or if anyone's ever in a wheelchair or on crutches etc..
I'd thought you could put units or larder units in like this.. or rotated 90 degrees potentially (depending on fixings) so you still painted extra storage space in the kitchen.
If you are thinking you may wanna knock through to the dining room in the future, maybe tall units with fridge/freezer would be better on the utility side and having lower units on the dining room side so less needs to be changed in the kitchen if you do knock through?
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