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1930’s semi floorplan ideas

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Lillyjames · 21/03/2021 10:53

Hi all,
I’m going to see this home next week and want to get a gage of its potential. I’d love an open plan kitchen diner but I’m worried about supporting walls. I did see someone has moved their kitchen into the existing dining room to save knowing down quite so many walls. Has anyone else done anything like this to their home ? All opinions welcome for any other ideas

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Hopefulhedgehog · 21/03/2021 10:57

I have nearly exactly the same set up. Have knocked through between kitchen and dining room and extended out into the garden from dining room also to add a sofa area in new kitchen/diner. We have also moved the kitchen into what was the dining room so we had room for an island and the old kitchen is now our dining area. You will need a structural engineer to advise on knocking the walls down and what support is required - no one will be able to tell that from the floor plan. Good luck.

Hopefulhedgehog · 21/03/2021 11:00

This is our before and after floor plan

1930’s semi floorplan ideas
1930’s semi floorplan ideas
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Lillyjames · 21/03/2021 11:02

Amazing thank you this is so helpful do you have any photos ? Do you know if your floorplan was a similar size ? I’m not as bothered about having a lounge in there at the moment maybe just a comfy chair and coffee table. Do you know what talking that walk out cost as an estimate ? Sorry for the many qs Smile

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Lillyjames · 21/03/2021 11:04

Ahh I’ve just seen this , looks larger than the one I’m going to see I think , slightly more convenient shape too with it being more square

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Hopefulhedgehog · 21/03/2021 11:11

Could you knock through between lounge and dining to make bug kitchen diner then turn what was the kitchen into a small lounge?

Hopefulhedgehog · 21/03/2021 11:15

Ps I can't really help at all on cost as we did whole thing DIY. I don't think it would be a fortune to knock down wall and put in steel beam but you would need building regs and engineer's calculations too.

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Lillyjames · 21/03/2021 12:17

Oo hadn’t thought of this , always think of kitchens being at the back.

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CovidCorvid · 21/03/2021 12:22

I have a similar layout. It had been knocked through before we moved here. So open plan kitchen diner but we have a worktop/breakfast bar kind of separating the two. With cupboards on the kitchen side.

The dining room part is smaller than yours, maybe 12ft square. Just have a dining room table in there and then a cupboard in the alcove. There’s a lot of doors in the dining room, one from the hall, one to a utility room, French doors out the garden and then the gap through to the kitchen so nowhere for a sofa.

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Lillyjames · 21/03/2021 13:10

Yes I saw this one , is yours similar ? fifimcgee.co.uk/blog/our-new-humble-modern-farmhouse-kitchen-plans

Hoping to have a bit more space than this

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Lillyjames · 21/03/2021 17:19

My rough play with the floorplan

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Wauden · 21/03/2021 22:14

We have kept our original floor plan and that was a good decision. Otherwise there's too much noise in one room .

Wauden · 21/03/2021 23:49

I much prefer to keep the plan form and use the spaces more effectively.

Angliski · 22/03/2021 00:29

Hello

We added a 3metre deep extension from the back of the dining room and across where your current utility is. Bifolds at the back. Love it so much. We did have a structural engineer and an architect involved.
I didn’t knock out between lounge and dining or between old kitchen and dining because I like having the range of rooms.

1930’s semi floorplan ideas
1930’s semi floorplan ideas
1930’s semi floorplan ideas
Angliski · 22/03/2021 00:30

First photo is the new space. Second photo is run where kitchen/your utility was. Third is messy living room (one year old DS so no apologies!)

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Lillyjames · 22/03/2021 06:10

Thank you this is so helpful to see , looks great ! For those talking about keeping the floor plan that’s not going to be an option due to the long kitchen which won’t work for me as the kitchen is the most important part of my home personally.

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Iseeyoulookingatme · 22/03/2021 20:08

We are currently knocking through to our dinning room and putting the kitchen into the dining room area. We are having to move the services gas and electricity over to the other side and all in its costing about 14k. We are having our steel beam fitted tomorrow and it currently looks like this

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itsgettingwierd · 22/03/2021 20:19

@Lillyjames

My rough play with the floorplan
I would be wary of getting rid of the utility if you're planning on having an open plan kitchen diner and also using it for chilling and tv. This is because you then have washing machine etc in same room. It's not so bad when you have a separate kitchen because you can shut the noise off.
Africa2go · 22/03/2021 20:44

Agree with a pp, I think open plan works if you can shut off the W/M etc. I'd be wary of losing your utility room, think you'll regret it. Also do you have a downstairs loo? Can you incorporate that under the stairs?

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Lillyjames · 23/03/2021 06:17

Thank you this is great to be able to see

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Lillyjames · 23/03/2021 06:18

There is still a utility it’s just not labelled , I’ve made is smaller and pushed to the stairs side of the room. It dosen’t show on the floor plan but I’ve been informed currently under the stairs is a cloakroom /loo.

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sashh · 23/03/2021 06:46

Oo hadn’t thought of this , always think of kitchens being at the back.

My kitchen is at the front, it makes much more sense because you have the road as a view from the kitchen and garden from the living room.

That layout is almost my childhood home (one of them) the front and back rooms didn't have doors between them and the bathroom was where your bedroom three is.

In ours the utility room was down a couple of stairs.

My parents decided to build on at the side so the kitchen became huge.

How big are the actual rooms, we had a dining table and 6 chairs in the dining room but also a cottage suite and my mum had an awfully 70s curved chair you could swivel round.

Angliski · 23/03/2021 08:51

I’m not sure about walking into an open plan kitchen - it works amazingly for cottages but semi? Do you keep the wall and move all the water and waste then?

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Lillyjames · 23/03/2021 09:23

@Angliski

I’m not sure about walking into an open plan kitchen - it works amazingly for cottages but semi? Do you keep the wall and move all the water and waste then?
Oh yes my family Edwardian home is a semi with a kitchen in the old back room knocked through and it looks amazing
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Lillyjames · 23/03/2021 09:25

@sashh

Oo hadn’t thought of this , always think of kitchens being at the back.

My kitchen is at the front, it makes much more sense because you have the road as a view from the kitchen and garden from the living room.

That layout is almost my childhood home (one of them) the front and back rooms didn't have doors between them and the bathroom was where your bedroom three is.

In ours the utility room was down a couple of stairs.

My parents decided to build on at the side so the kitchen became huge.

How big are the actual rooms, we had a dining table and 6 chairs in the dining room but also a cottage suite and my mum had an awfully 70s curved chair you could swivel round.

If the kitchen was in the old dining room that measures 5.2 by 3.5 m. If I decided to make the utility then the dining space left would be 2.8 wide by 4m length
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