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How far should we go?

3 years ago

Hi,

We are planning to redo our kitchen next year but have a dilemma.

We would like to remove our current utility room and open up our kitchen so we can have an island and a more important downstairs toilet. The house itself has been extended and used to be a shop so is a bit odd. The "front" door is at the back of the house and the L shaped stairs are in the kitchen right next to the front door. This means all of our wet clothes etc are taken off in the kitchen etc. The stairs have wasted space underneath and above as can be seen in the white with section below.

We'd like to keep the kitchen, bathroom and main bedroom in the same place but happy to opening up the downstairs into the dining area. We are also interested in better use of the space such as the white area above the stairs as it's 150cm across but currently ruled out by the stairs. My original though was to move the entrance and stairs but not sure if it's even viable int he space we have.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how far we should or can go? Our primary focus is to update the kitchen and downstairs toilet but would be interested in other ideas.

Thank you

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PRO
My Claybrick Home
3 years ago
Hi Steve

I could certainly work with you to put together a concept design for your ground floor.

I work with Sketchup to provide 3D visualisations for clients to see the flow of a space once drawn to scale in 2D, and then into 3D.

You can check out a couple of my designs on the links below

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfllmQAVCnA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg3nWqCqSkQ

The kitchen design I worked on remotely with a family in Milton Keynes. To read about how I did this check out www.myclaybrickhome.com/post/kitchen-concept-design

If you'd like more info please drop me a reply, or an email to vicky@myclaybrickhome.com

Rgds

Vicky

www.houzz.co.uk/pro/webuser-531145241/my-claybrick-home
PRO
CJ Interiors
3 years ago
Have you considered building a wall to enclose the living room and knocking down the dinning room wall to create a open plan kitchen/diner? I think this could work well, you could still have you island as a casual seating area and an area for a formal dinning table.

More importantly you can keep the utility space, but as a downstairs toilet.
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