Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I've had another thought - do you need to add on a bit - by the looks of it almost every other owner has felt the need to!

Yes we do. It would make sense of you could see it, but besides that, its actually replacing a missing bit, not adding a bit on. Its a bit that's important to keep the rest up.

Also. despite space downstairs upstairs is not very big atm

I've forgotten how I did it firt time and tryng to do the upstairs now.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Come and visit.:)

The nothing room is the massive fireplaces.

Dining room kitchen distance has been a bug bear. From the kitchen you would use door by the second stairs....

The alternative was to put it in the study (which is ATM the kitchen), but we like the idea of the long thin room now....its no further.

I could visit
But it's January and cold.... and I have stuff I should be doing - and if there's one thing I hate (living here) it's the whole long journey all the way there .... knowing I have to come all the way back again. It all just seems like "dead distance/time" once you're off the motorway and have another 1.5 hours of just pointing the car in one direction while field after field after field after field pass by for another 100 miles.

I did wonder if you've "wasted" the whole kitchen area, which'd make a great big living room - and knock the study/library into one, which'd put the kitchen right in the middle of the house and accessible from all angles (including from upstairs in the middle of the night when you want some R Whites). But the store/loo on the right are bugging me as that whole hallway seems wrong somehow.... but it's so hard to work out because a lot of those walls will be untouchable or fireplaces.

I wonder if you could put that loo (on the right) into the utility; make the kitchen into another big living room; make the larger store + store into one big store that's now inside the kitchen, having removed that loo and opened up that entrance hallway + study + library. So that'd make an L shaped large kitchen with uber-storage in it, right round that corner. With an informal eating area somewhere in there.... possibly the left hand side of what is now the library.

Anyway .... I can't visualise, so I'm probably way off the mark.

vivatifosi

The long room reminds me of a room we had in our house in Australia. Dimensions were pretty similar. In Australian terms they are called sleepouts, but there isn't really something similar here. We had a wall of screens and foldable doors that could be opened to the outdoors, so the space became very light and airy. Structurally/planning wise I don't know if that would be possible as its a big span, but even if it isn't, would it be possible to have three sets of double doors all of which could be thrown open to give like an indoorsy al-fresco space? Does this make any sense? In Australia with no AC we'd throw ours open in the Summer and all sleep out there in the cool breeze.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

The long room reminds me of a room we had in our house in Australia. Dimensions were pretty similar. In Australian terms they are called sleepouts, but there isn't really something similar here. We had a wall of screens and foldable doors that could be opened to the outdoors, so the space became very light and airy. Structurally/planning wise I don't know if that would be possible as its a big span, but even if it isn't, would it be possible to have three sets of double doors all of which could be thrown open to give like an indoorsy al-fresco space? Does this make any sense? In Australia with no AC we'd throw ours open in the Summer and all sleep out there in the cool breeze.

God, I'd love that. I doubt listed buildings officer would come at it.

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lostinrates

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misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

ok...stumbling block one......its a pdf...does that mean I can't copy and make changes?

I want to see every elses too!

I can if you trust me. I've got loads of software for work

silvercar

Friends had a similar L shaped house and they (spent a bl**dy fortune) filled in the L to make it rectangle shape.

The kitchen being so far from the dining room would be so off putting that one or other would have to move. Said friends did this and the advantage was the new kitchen could be fitted before the old one removed, so they were never without a kitchen.

I love the upstairs but tell me that the stairs from downstairs don't arrive in your bedroom! Only thing I would be inclined to do is make the main bedroom window larger or even have two on the same wall.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I love the upstairs but tell me that the stairs from downstairs don't arrive in your bedroom! Only thing I would be inclined to do is make the main bedroom window larger or even have two on the same wall.

It does....but into a trapdoor. Its v. cool. We love it...and its not open into room below.

wndows are no hope...listed buildings.

silvercar

clicked too soon.

Could you knock down the wall between the library and the study and make that a dining room? At least then the soup isn't cold/ spilt before it arrives from the kitchen.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

It does....but into a trapdoor. Its v. cool. We love it...and its not open into room below.

So house guests are trapped? Downstairs? or afraid to venture upstairs in case they disturb?