kitchen for a 1930s house ?

[Theas18]

This another of my " I really can't care about this at the moment but it needs to happen" threads!

We've been faffing around for years- to extend/not extend etc at least 8yrs!

Anyway, have a nice large kitchen to gut and sort out- it'll need re plastering etc as well. Also a " coal hole" that has the washer and dryer in a teeny square area off he kitchen and a loo off that. Want to keep the loo- so this structure will need to be " sorted" in some way as its earth floored without damp course etc

Any links to blogs/pinterest or suggestions of what to do without huge expense.

Fighting my basic instinct to just do nothing.

We managed to turn a 'coal hole' into a pretty servicable utility 'area' in our last house (tiny 30s semi).

We had to brick up the original back door to do it, but the before/after pictures are attached.

A good kitchen shop will be able to help you out. I mostly designed ours myself, but a local place helped make it all a reality. And it was only 6k for absolutely everything, including fitting, for both rooms. The woman I spoke to would probably have been delighted to help design something for somebody who wasn't sure what they wanted.

Limesoda - that looks amazing! Great job!

limesoda thats great!

Our family home growing up was 1930s, detached rather than semi but with the typical galley kitchen. The breakfast room/ kitchen/ lean-to scullery arrangement was all knocked through into one space and we (or rather my parents) eventually had a local joiner put in a painted kitchen based on the 1930s 3-panel doors.

Mum also had the back door blocked up and had French windows put in instead. These opened onto the terrace (which we used approx once a year, this being in Manchester). If I were doing the same thing now, I'd build an extension with skylights all the way across the terrace and use it as a sofa/telly space.

If you haven't already, look at Pinterest as a lot of American houses date from the 1930s and 1940s and the yanks seem to like period style rather than modernisation.