Floorplan Help

[Grownupkid]

Hi everyone!

Was hoping to use communal thinking to get some ideas for how you'd configure the ground floor for this property: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107101223#/ Ideally without doing any building work...

We've always wanted a big open plan kitchen / diner living space but creativity on floor planning is not my strong suit!

Thanks!

so when you say no building work, do you mean not removing any walls? Or do you mean not doing a side-extension?

@parietal no side extension but not opposed to removing internal walls!

I think it is a lovely house.

My idea would be to do a very small side-extension, just filling in the bit beside the kitchen. That would let you open up the kitchen & dining room into one big room, and you would not need to move any bathrooms or the utility room. As there seems to be good access along the footpath beside the house, I don't think that would be complicated.

If you really don't want a side extension, then you could move all the other rooms about, but given how hard it is to move the pipes for the loo or sinks, that might actually be more expensive & complex.

One other option might be to put the kitchen in the front room overlooking the street, keep the sitting room at the back as your primary living room and use the existing kitchen as an office / snug.

If you cant extend as suggested above I would put cloakroom and utility where kitchen is now (cloakroom at end of hall and utility next to it). Then put new kitchen where utility and sitting room are so you look over the garden

Current kitchen becomes a utility room. Current utility room becomes a cloakroom (fitted storage) with downstairs toilet. Then the sitting room becomes a nice big eat in kitchen

I would take down the wall between the dining room and the hall, and open up between the kitchen and dining room and fill in the side extension.

It is a lovely house but has been made ‘bitty’ with the addition of the rear extension rather than an ‘across the back of the house’ remodel with big kitchen, bifold doors etc.

Are you thinking of a loft conversion? It is a lot of ground floor space for 2 double bedrooms and a small single.

I wouldn't spend the money moving the kitchen. The house is lovely.

But if you want a bigger kitchen go into the side return. If you want open plan then open that up into the dining room.

If you cant extend as suggested above I would put cloakroom and utility where kitchen is now (cloakroom at end of hall and utility next to it). Then put new kitchen where utility and sitting room are so you look over the garden

I'd go for this option. The sitting room by itself won't give you a particularly large kitchen so I think you'd be disappointed if you just did that. It's expensive to move pipes etc though so you might also want to consider getting a quote to extend into the side return for the depth of the existing kitchen and then keep that as the kitchen - also opening it back into the current dining room as much as you can given that involves major work to the back wall of the house.

One piece of advice we had when reconfiguring our house - make use of the garden from where you spend the most time! I have a large kitchen with garden access and every day it makes me happy. I couldn’t live in a property with the kitchen where yours is. So move it to the rear of the house. At the moment the loo and utility have a better position than the kitchen! As was the case in our old layout. Give yourself the best view and use of the garden from kitchen/living areas. Relegate cloakroom/utility to the least desirable are of the house.

Thank you so much! Some great ideas... we love the house but there's definitely a lot to do. I do think it's liveable though so not necessarily in a need to rush. I do think we should rethink the side extension even if it makes it a little more expensive... I agree with the PP who said it felt a little bitty!

@UpTheJunktion would definitely look to doing a loft conversion long term. This has been done elsewhere so don't think it would be a problem!