I need help with a floor plan

3 years ago

I have a 1960 3 bed semi detached with garage that we want to reconfigure but the garage is adjoined to the lounge and not to the hall so the front door is to the far side. I have seen plenty of floor plans that turn it to a double fronted property but none with this layout. Any suggestions?

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hedgehog99
3 years ago
Hi, a sketch or floor plan, and a photo of the front as it currently is, will help? Also what are you hoping to achieve with the reconfiguring? eg a new kitchen, bigger lounge, ...? It's really difficult to comment otherwise, which is probably why you haven't had any replies yet.
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3 years ago
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HU-432114264
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3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Hoping to add a cloakroom or shower room downstairs. There is also a another extension to the back of the garage that same size as the garden room and the space in between has had a flat roof put on. It would be nice to open out the space possibly moving the kitchen to the back of the house onto one of these gaps.
HU-432114264
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3 years ago

Very uninspiring.
hedgehog99
3 years ago
Not necessarily! I'm sure there's lots you can do with it and you have the benefit of a good sized space/plot and it looks flat and accessible, which is a huge bonus for building work. I wonder whether you really do need to extend into the garage though as it sounds as though there's quite a lot of space at the back that you could work with, and perhaps you could retain the garage and the good storage that comes with that (I know people who have converted garages into living space and later regretted it because of the loss of storage for bikes, garden equipment yadda yadda).

To be 100% honest I think your first step is to refine what it is you really want and need in terms of extra space/functionality, define how much money you have to put behind it - and then talk that through with an architect.

It sounds like you will need an architect involved at some point anyway, if you're looking at extending at the back, and I think that relationship functions better if you go to them with a clear brief of what you need, rather than a fully formed idea of how to do it. Does that make sense? An architect's role, in part, is to understand your needs and then come up with a solution which meets your brief, in a way which will improve the internal flow and the external look of the house. As a client, part of your role is to be open to the professional's ideas and to assess whether they meet your brief, rather than defining the solutions yourself. So I think worrying about where the front door is, isn't really the issue - and your time/effort is better spent in defining what doesn't work for you in the house at the moment, and what your family's needs are, now and in the future.

For example, you mention putting in a shower downstairs, but that's jumping straight to a solution which may not be the best one - an architect will respond to a brief which includes "we need another shower", with a solution which considers the layout of the whole house (it might be that you can get one in upstairs instead). So overall you'll get a better, more considered result than if you say "I want a shower here and I want the front door in the middle", type conversation.

I hope that makes sense and doesn't put you off!
keiblem
3 years ago
Is it possible for you to upload a photo of the rear elevation?
keiblem
3 years ago
Are you planning to do any landscaping at the front? I ask because you said it is very uninspiring whereas I consider it to be a quick fix to improve its doorstep appeal. I know that wasn’t your question but improving it’s doorstep appeal may help to warm you to its potential.
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3 years ago
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Everywhere you have a door you have a corridor of movement and this is limiting your options - would suggest separating the living room from the dining room, and closing up the access to the utility room. Then take down the wall between the kitchen and dining room, move the kitchen to the other end and recreate your utility room from the current garden room, extending slightly to accommodate a downstairs cloakroom. Your kitchen layout would look something like this, assuming you can create an access from the hall. I did this render for layout purposes only for a similarly configured property, so don't take the detail too literally.

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