We live in a 1930 semi and we need to make the house work better for us.
Currently, the living room and dining room are knocked into one running from the front to the back of the house, with a french door out onto the garden.
The typically titchy kitchen has a conservatory tacked onto the end of it (about 3m square). The conservatory is freezing in winter and boiling hot in summer and the kitchen itself is very dark.
We have the original 1930s garage down the side, which is currently a store for bikes, half empty pots of paint, and the washing machine (which won't fit into the kitchen!).
We've been in the house several years now, and really need to make it work. We love the area and the schools are great, so we don't really want to move. (Any buying a house already 'done' would be far more expensive that doing it ourselves, I reckon).
Our initial thoughts are to reinstate the wall between the living and dining room with double doors in it. The front room would be the living room. We'd then knock through between the kitchen and garden end of the living room to make a kitchen / diner across the back. We'd like to look into the option of incorporating the garage, with the back 2/3 being absorbed into the kitchen, and the front 1/3 being for bikes (and a lot less clutter!).
Haven't got a clue what to do with the conservatory - perhaps flatten completely, or make it more 'permanent' looking with a tiled roof. It has access out onto the garden, so perhaps it could be used as a playroom while the kids are small.
So, those are our ideas. Extending out the back would be wonderful, but we don't really have the cash for that right now.
Have you done something similar? What did you do that really worked for you? Is there anything you wished you had done differently? Any hints / tips, anything to avoid?? Thanks!
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Changing layout of 1930s semi - what works / what doesn't?
MarvinKMooney · 05/03/2016 19:25
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