we need a floor plan with measurements and placement of doors, windows and existing plumbing as well names of adjoining rooms but strongly suggest that any changes to the kitchen should be considered in relation to the whole house floorplan as, if you're considering replacing the whole kitchen, it could be better to move the kitchen to a different room.....

I am not big on messing too much with foot prints of old homes but sometimes there is no real choice as we expect much more luxurious and spacious kitchens these days. What is behind the wall where the fridge and counter beside are? could the wall possibly be knocked through so that narrow counter could be turned into a lovely peninsula Hamptons style bench? I love the idea of honouring the house's history and working with that stone hearth - it is perfect for a Hamptons style via the 1940s look - you just need a lovely big classic looking freestanding cooker in that alcove with a big range hood clad in panelled plaster for that grand East Coast style. The stepped cornicing is lovely - I have the same in my 1950 house - use that as a style guide. What fun!

Thank you everyone. I do not and cannot pull any walls down as this is a double brick old home and I do not want any walls removed as it could jeperdise the homes walls and as we have no cracks at all we are not willing to change it.

The photo below is the entry and behind the wall is the kitchen . Either side of the kitchen is bedrooms and original fire places in bedrooms that we cannot touch.

Behind the kitchen is a dining are but that is an add on to the home that is very narrow

Thank you Alexandra Willis as we did think of loosing the eatery window and covering that and putting a sky light it the ceiling

Hi everyone. Here are some photos to show direction

This shows why I cannot pull down the walls .

i just have to work with this beautiful old home and I want to show respect to the home

Please see rough plan

Hi there, what are the blank spaces on the two long walls

Thank you for these images. Your amazing

I love them

Thank you for your help all. I’m actually so excited to look at this and what we could do to make our home more amazing. We take over on January 17 so not long and our plan is to paint the main rooms then the kitchen are to be designed but lol comes to money

How exciting for you congratulations on your new home, your painting efforts will make a big change without costing too much. I would consider making the kitchen window a doorway with the step down, it already has a support beam, this would make the two rooms work better,can't see where the other doors are?,

Merry Xmas

Thank you siruskey

glad you said that as we did think a large door way and creating a bench table so that we can use that rather than a dinning table.

Mim so grateful for everyone’s advise which has put me in a great head space for creating this area.

Hi there without measurements to confirm that this might work I have worked a bank of narrow 300 deep pantries along the left wall, narrow pantries are so good to use as you don't have to dig in to the back of them like you do with deeper ones to find things, you could even have some open shelves.

I'am working off the current 2.5 space between the cabinets in the existing kitchen when I suggest an Island made up of 600 large two and three drawer modules, leaving a 600 space for two to sit up to the bench from from each side

I have moved the fridge across to where I think I can see a cabinet next the cooktop, but still think the fridge could work on the opposite wall with the narrow pantries.

Love that you are trying to keep the fireplace for character, it also shares the chimney with the fire place in the bedroom behind the kitchen, which could make alterations a bit difficult. Re the slab unless it's level with the timber floor I would suggest removing it as it would be a trip hazard, not good in a kitchen.

thank you. thanks the images are amazing. we are going to remove the back wall so i will add the spaces to show you. but i s appreciate everyones help.

Wow that's a big change, now bringing down walls, do you have a floor plan that you would like to share, good luck with it all cheers

Have you thought about hiring the renovation company? I think it can save your time and money. For instance I cooperated with SO Renovate company. They deal with such types of works. I renovated my living room with their help. Now it looks fantastic.

Hope you guys can see what I mean but not sure how I can jazz the bottom level to create the flow from the kitchen but you guys are amazing and I’m so thankful that I posted to see what you think as advise is always good

In your first sketch you mention that it's 2.5m floor space between cabinets, 3m doesn't seem to add up when there are currently cabinets on both sides of the room?

Sorry my husband said it’s 4 metres wide. It’s a small narrow kitchen

That's great, it's so much harder when you don't have access. You could consider a Banquette setting for your dining at the end of the old extension.

removing the wall will not necessarily make more space, especially with a step down to consider.. the shape and correct measurements are still not clear and need to be carefully checked for each wall from corner to corner?? do you have a floor plan for the whole house? ...the best place for the kitchen may not necessarily be in the same room but no realistic plans or suggestions can be made without plans of the existing house showing all doors and windows and accurate measurements of all the rooms

Consideration given to the old chimney space by keeping the short walls

Thanks for advise and images . We cannot use any other room as combiners are between rooms and makes it more expensive to move plus we love the bedroom fireplaces. I’m very grateful that everyone has taken time to give me some guidance . I will post again and show the progress

I found some images to share that we have agreed on for style. The kitchen is never going to be masssive so we need to create a wow with style. Our home is brought simply as a stepping stone for our forever home. The plan is to have it for 5 years then buy something closer to Melbourne

You only need to watch http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/somethingsgottagive/ to see a stunning Hamptons house and kitchen, loved the movie as well.

I have been playing with my old program over the break and managed to add some tall glass cabinets, keeping the built in fridge on the same side in the corner.

The opposite side of the galley should fit Wall Oven, cooking Zone with chimney and then the clean up zone for all things dirty.

The 600 x 2.400 Island with small sink either end for preparing veggies etc and seating for two in whatever space appeals to you. Happy New Year

thank you siriuskey . your so lovely to take time to do this.

I have been asked aboout the all white.

The home is to be painted in Taubmans (crispe white) and white shaver full stregth (bottom half of the wall and white shaver quarter strength (top quarter of the wall). so in answering i guess the colours of the home and a very light marble grey with white trims.the kitchen is to be a real white (not ivory) with marble herringbone tiles and the floors to be repolished as they are original 1947 floor boards.

Hi Rhonda,

Nicky here from Lyons Design. Are you still looking for a good kitchen layout? It's definitely a gut but a pretty straight forward one. If your on a budget like most new home owner's. I would suggest the following. Take every cabinet out-donate them to a re-use-it center or CL to recycle them. This keeps your disposal bill down and out of the landfill, store appliance to the dinning room end(are you getting new appliances or kitchen fixtures?),remove hood fan cover to just vent hole, remove the floor tile from the old wood stove area. Cut out a pass-through on sink wall run-leave the same amount of wall on left side as the door has to its left-keeping symmetry, on right side keep 75ish inches and move plumbing to corner. Get a hardwood guy to lay the few pieces you'll need to replace it in that area. The main hard flooring looks still in good shape so just re-sand it-if it hasn't been re-sanded passed it limits and re-stain all together. Flooring then will be more consistent once new cabinets are in. Keep appliance hardwired locations as is- this keeps the Reno cost down too.

Thank you so much Nicky . It’s a refurbished I think and hopefully we can do it for $20,000 . This home is beautiful but needs updates. Love your ideas. Our plan is to put a large decking out the back as we have the land to do it and that will serve as a large our door eating area. We settle next week so once we settle in and work out a plan we will move from there. Thank you to every lovely person that has given great ideas on here ❤️

hi Nicki lyons design.

i wanted your opinion on how to best incorportate the drop level into the dining.

we have decided to open the wall up as the kitchen gets dark so thats a must and we are also putting a 3 metre alfresco that will become a outdoor indoor eatery.

thank you for your advise.

I have put images of the outside of the house as that where the dining room is from there we will be bringing the decking out 3 metres which will create an out - indoor eating.

this is the most finished room giving you an idea of the colour and house. all blue grey tones. sorry about stuff around but a reno house is hard to find spaces

below is kitchen as is looking out to the dining through that open servery but we are taking most of that wall out to make an open space - its very small

step down below into the dining through the left door way.

below is the now dining.

the table is very small and hard to pull chairs in and out of hence the indoor out door considerations.

belwo is the outdoor looking in.

from those doors we are putting a 3 metre decking i think.

we have a lot of yard so its easy to do

i must also note that the house was made in 1947 so the walls are double brick in some areas and hand made concrete blocks in other areas

here is a pic of what im thinking for out door.

now i need a clear i dea and i guess in the end to have it drawn up and a builder quote

without seeing your floorplan, perhaps you could make the bathroom the laundry and use the laundry as the bathroom as it already has a shower and WC? the following is a beautiful laundry

The area behind the door is only 1 metre square.

Would you show a floor plan of your lovely new home?

Don’t have one but I may get my husband to mock one up