Extension Plans

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Keith99 wrote: »

Yeah I have said two but he didn't include it in the drawing, so I will ask him to amend.

What size/type ?

Get as many as you can in there - several smaller ones are better than 1 or 2 big ones imo

Keith99

The width is just over 6 metres - the sofa/TV bit will be in the back bit of the plan I think. Although it wouldn't be hard to change plans.

mishkanorman

I'd put the kitchen in the dining room I think, with a breckfast bar coming into the extension with a dining area leading into garden and a living space to the right.

We've just added a kitchen living room which leads into the garden and we use it all the time, only wish we'd done it years ago !

phil24_7

I agree with a few on here. I would put the kitchen in the darker place as you will/can have lost of task lighting as well as an array of ceiling lighting. Put the breakfast room just behind this and then you have the choice of either a dining area or a lounge area beside this.

You can then choose a formal dining area or a snug/lounge to the front of the house.

If there is enough room to not stifle the current lounge layout, perhaps you could consider keeping the large opening and using sound proof, frosted glass doors. They will allow masses of light to flow through the house and will not limit the use of the front room. They could be opened right up when entertaining and closed of hen a more intimate space is required.

Regards
Phil

Keith99

Thanks for all the advice! I think I have settled for taking out the corridor, making the toilet/utility room into one room and have a toilet with its own door in the utility room and also adding a door out from the utility room.

Doozergirl

Keith99 wrote: »

Thanks for all the advice! I think I have settled for taking out the corridor, making the toilet/utility room into one room and have a toilet with its own door in the utility room and also adding a door out from the utility room.

Wipes out almost all of your storage space in the utility, when you have a perfectly good door off the hall, or indeed off the original dining room if you want, but it's your house.

Keith99

Doozergirl wrote: »

I have designed one with the kitchen on the other side with an island and the double doors next to the island which frees up more walls for lounging.

I'd also consider putting the kitchen into the old dining room. Utility can then be accessed from the other wall if you want and you should have space for a corner sofa where the bulk of the kitchen is currently.

The problem with big doors is that they immediately limit the available wall space for furniture.

Fashion means that people want the same things at the same time. Everyone wants a living/kitchen/diner with an island/peninsular with breakfast bar, utility and big doors onto the garden. Personally, I'm not convinced that there is genuinely enough space in the average house for all of those things done very well and I would consider removing the least important function from the wish list.

I've arranged the back my house so many ways, taking walls down and putting them up again and none of them compel people to sit on a sofa and watch TV in the kitchen. They sit at the breakfast bar when I'm cooking and they sit at the dining table to eat and chat. For cosy chats, it's always the main lounge.

How many places do people genuinely need to sit down in one room?

If that extension is 3.2 internally by about 7, it will squeeze in.

You have to decide before you design and order any kitchen that you know exactly where things are going.

There are great designs for tables incorporated off kitchen islands or benches that back off them and face a dining table and those can be a great use of space as you reduce the need for circulation pathways.

Try and think outside the box. Pinterest is a good source of inspiration.

I'm still thinking about this and I'm thinking more and more that the old dining room would be a good place for the kitchen. The only thing I can quite get in my head is how you would get the waste/water in and out of it - as the water comes in where the utility room is.