Floorplan ideas
Hi, my wife and I have just purchased a property (well, it's currently going through! 🤞🏻)
We're trying to think about potential options for the layout downstairs. There's a good sized but unsociable kitchen, with large separate living room, and another long living/dining room.
We have a baby and a toddler and we would like all the classic modern family things; open plan kitchen dining, separate lounge, ideally downstairs WC and utility.
The house is large enough so we don't want to extend if we can help it, but the budget would allow an extension if it's needed.
We are thinking of knocking through the kitchen into one of the other rooms but can't seem to find a layout that works well. The funny shape bay with patio doors at the top right of the floorplan is a weird one to work round!
If anyone has any ideas and suggestions that would be great!
Thanks, Jonny
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last yearGood morning, I work for several design platforms, in my profile you can find several works done by me. The quality of my renders can be seen in any detail of the room.
In the case of your open space, there is something that I am not clear about in your plan. For this reason, we would need to go deeper with an image of the current state of the room, for example, I see that you have a service bathroom on the left and it was blocked tickets as proposed by FILLIP BREWER do we have to go to the street to be able to enter the service?
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last yearPhotos here which might help, a couple of the current kitchen, downstairs WC, the grey living room is the bottom left room on the plan, the room with the blue wall is the long dining/living space down the right hand side. And the garden which has patio right the way across the back of the house
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last yearlast modified: last yearThanks so much Carl - those are really interesting ideas, I like the idea of creating an adult 'snug' and having a utility and WC behind that, leaving space for a dining nook by the back patio doors. We've been rather selfishly clinging on to the idea of keeping the large living room as a separate space, but in reality that looks like the best option for opening up the kitchen into!
@Rosy W - the front of the house is Southeast facing, so that back wall at the "top" of the plan is Northwest, see photo (North is straight up on this)
So there should be some evening sun on the back of the house I think!- PRO
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last yearlast modified: last yearI’d go one step further than Philip’s suggestion above and take the dining and snug area right across the back of the house. This would give you a smaller ’posh’ living room but a really good everyday living space. Philip - I hope you don’t mind that I scrawled all over your drawing!!
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last yearWe have had lots of fun going through all the options and suggestions on here and it's been giving us lots of food for thought!
For anyone interested, here is our current thoughts on layout, without extending... I've used 'HomeByMe' which is great for me but limited compared to the professional-looking tools that people on here are using!
Knocking through the larger living area into the kitchen and moving the WC from that rear corner. Splitting down the 'long' room into three spaces - a small 'snug' at the front, with a small "thrutility" (does that word already exist? If not, it should!) leading to a WC. Behind that at the back (which is actually patio doors in the bay already) would be some sort of a reading nook.
The main living space would be opened up for family kitchen / living / dining. Bi-fold doors across the back to let that afternoon/evening sunlight in.
Cupboard under the stairs is our only 'cloakroom' space (without building a porch which I'd rather not do if we can help it). So that is the coats & shoes space with things like prams having to live in the hallway. Don't think there is a better solution without sticking a porch on the front!!
Uncertain on the logistics / practicalities / costs of adding a WC and utility on the right-hand side (next to an adjoining wall) - where does the soil pipe go or any of the water pipes for that matter?
I guess the next steps would be to speak to builders about this, or employ an architect to go through it in more detail?- PRO
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