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Please critique my bad attempt at being an architect- floorplan included

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ThatChirpyLurker · 16/08/2024 12:32

Dh and I are moving house. So far I have really not found anything that I particularly like. Dh does not care for aesthetics, just does it have the right number of rooms, are there transport links etc. Whilst I definitely enjoy design and consider myself an armchair architect.

I have found a dilapidated cottage in a great location, a couple of hundred grand below our budget. Probably not doable due to the numbers involved but I am going to suggest it to Dh when I see him at the weekend (he is away on a work trip).

Normally I have no problem playing around with floorplans but this house stumped me on account of there being no connecting hallways.

Please critique what changes I have made.

Thanks in advance

Please critique my bad attempt at being an architect- floorplan included
Please critique my bad attempt at being an architect- floorplan included
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ThatChirpyLurker · 16/08/2024 12:54

CormorantStrikesBack · 16/08/2024 12:41

OK so in an ideal world with no budget restrictions.

I would keep your boot room/wc idea. The 2 store rooms below that I would turn into a kitchen or kitchen/diner if big enough

I would knock through to make a longer hall way like in your plan

What was the kitchen I'd have as a sitting room

What is currently the lounge I'd have as a snug/reading room/ second sitting room or dining room (whichever you feel you'd need most)

What is currently a sitting room on the right I'd turn into a study.

What is currently the small store I would turn that into a small utility/walk in pantry and have access only from the kitchen diner.

Thank you! Drawing this out now to see

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ThatChirpyLurker · 16/08/2024 12:53

Anothernameonthewall · 16/08/2024 12:37

I take it the main entrance will be the new hallway? Are you going to keep the double fireplaces in the sitting room/ dining room? And where will you put the door to it? From the music hall? Would there be space to put a door in the new hallway?

It looks good! You might need to check how easy it will be to put plumbing in the the utility and wc.

Yup. hallway is where star is.

In the dining room we’d probably take out one fireplace.

I do wonder if there is space for the door. I worry not

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CormorantStrikesBack · 16/08/2024 12:41

OK so in an ideal world with no budget restrictions.

I would keep your boot room/wc idea. The 2 store rooms below that I would turn into a kitchen or kitchen/diner if big enough

I would knock through to make a longer hall way like in your plan

What was the kitchen I'd have as a sitting room

What is currently the lounge I'd have as a snug/reading room/ second sitting room or dining room (whichever you feel you'd need most)

What is currently a sitting room on the right I'd turn into a study.

What is currently the small store I would turn that into a small utility/walk in pantry and have access only from the kitchen diner.

lazyarse123 · 16/08/2024 12:38

I have no skill in this area and not good at visualising but it looks good to me if the numbers worked. Good luck.

Anothernameonthewall · 16/08/2024 12:37

I take it the main entrance will be the new hallway? Are you going to keep the double fireplaces in the sitting room/ dining room? And where will you put the door to it? From the music hall? Would there be space to put a door in the new hallway?

It looks good! You might need to check how easy it will be to put plumbing in the the utility and wc.

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ThatChirpyLurker · 16/08/2024 12:35

2nd plan

The massive hallway would have a sitting area or operate as some sort of music room.

and hopefully the walls could be pushed back to make the large hallway smaller and the lounge bigger. If possible.

On the train now to the city to go view.

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