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Feedback wanted for a new kitchen/living family friendly floorplan

Jaime Young
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

Hi guys!

We are planning a reno of our kitchen, dining and
living room area. It is currently separated into 4 rooms so the plan is to
remove all walls (will require a supporting beam and post).

We’re currently just trying to come up with the best new
layout and pick a style that suits our house.

We’d love to get everyone’s thoughts on the new layout we
have so far and help us to spot any issues!

A few things to note: the house is north facing. To the east
and west we look directly at the neighbours houses. The kitchen/living looks
out to the river to the north, we would like to maximize this view but maintain
privacy from the neighbours on each side.

The whole living area is 7.75m X 6.75m total.

Below is a rough model we’ve done of the current layout
and the new layout.

Current Layout

New Layout

  • We would remove one set of steps down into the
    kitchen (which are very awkward) and close that wall up. Then open a new sliding
    door joining the back entry to the main entry way. If budget allows we would
    add a skylight to increase light in the room.
  • The new pantry would have a door on the angled
    side, which is not shown.
  • There would be a long thin window above the kitchen splashback placed at eye level so you look out over the neighbours, not at them.
  • We’d tear up the slate in the kitchen and hope
    the floorboards below will look nice.
  • The TV we think is best over on the west wall
    with a gas fire below it but not sure. Adding this TV wall and possibly making
    it wider would help to obscure the neighbours house.
  • We need to somehow incorporate a post into the
    island bench but not sure of the details yet. Suggestions?

Also, this is the style we are thinking of going for with
the kitchen. We live in a country area so we think it could be a good balance
of modern and country.

Some additional things we are trying to work out are what
type of windows to go with that matches this style.

We currently
have horrible old brown aluminium frame windows to replace. The house is half brick half weatherboard. It’s
weatherboard around the living area which is painted cream with grey fascia. We’re
thinking of going grey weatherboard with white trim potentially.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the layout and best use
of the space and features? See any problems? We are new to all of this!

Also do people think we should get an architects input on this or work directly with a draftperson? We're working on a limited budget!

Cheers!

J

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