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Reconfigure entrance and cloakroom

last year

We are just about to complete on a house purchase which requires quite a bit of internal reconfiguration. It's currently a four bed house with seperate annex (mostly on the first floor). As a result of an extension in the early 2000s it's got a bit of an odd flow. We know we are going to redo the kitchen and expand into a previous utility room, create a new utility where the study to be and possibly expand the kitchen into the hallway (dotted line) which will enable us to put an island into the kitchen.

However, the bit that we are struggling with is how to improve the flow of the entrance. At present we in effect need to go through four rooms to access the kitchen/living room. I'm sure there is a simpler way for this to be. Any thoughts?

In this space we need a downstairs WC (a slightly larger one would be good), space for hanging coats/shoes/bench to put on shoes. If possible would be nice to have study - but we have other space for a study. We would also like to make the house more attractive from the front e.g. I think having a front door on the front would make a difference.

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Jonathan
last year
That’s a thug of a front extension. Most likely the biggest improvement would be unifying the front and moving the front door to the front. Personally I think you need an architect who specialises in refacing houses. It also occurs to me that the stairs make the hall intrude into the kitchen and rethinking those might pay dividend
Jonathan
last year
You might also consider turning the garage into a room since it will only fit a smaller car
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What I would do
David J
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Thanks - completely agree that a front door would make a big difference. I did toy with the idea of the stairs rather than turning 180 deg only make a 90 deg turn and come into the area closer to the front door/cloakroom area but I feel that may be quite an expensive option.

Your plans are useful - we are going to try to avoid doing any extensions due to cost but where you have the seat could function as a bootroom, but we do also want a downstairs cloackroom. Accessing the laundry off the hall is an interesting idea. I imagined it functioning as a utility room but you do get the benefit of extra wallspace in the kitchen, is it odd to not have the utility room accessed from the kitchen though?

Agree the garage is pointless, that will probably have to be another standalone job and we can decide what best to use it for once we've lived in the house for a bit. It's got 5/6 bedrooms but it's only my partner and little girl so we have more space than we really need.

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