Help with open plan Kitchen/Dining/Living space c
One thing we foresee as a possible issue is that our bedroom is off the living space, so if we open up the space our bedroom becomes less private.
Does anyone have any tips on how we could configure this space so that we could make our bedroom a little more private while enjoying open plan living . We’d also like to have an outdoor area coming off the back of the house with access through large bifolds or sliders.
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oklouise
5 years agoCamille
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThanks oklouise. We are in a nice large block, 1.6acres. It’s our forever home, where we hope to have a large orchard, vegetable garden and chooks so our kids can grow up knowing where their food comes from and how to grow it too. The house has a verandah on 3 sides (not down the side where the garage end wall is). The verandah isn’t separate to the roofline, it’s all as one. The clothes line is down near the garage (our of site from the bedrooms and living spaces). Ideally we’d like to keep a rumpus room so that our kids have a place for their toys and in future a place to escape to. I’ve added another picture which shows where north is (the house has a really odd orientation)https://m.reales
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Comments (14)I find it difficult to view your floor plan as it blurs if I enlarge it, so excuse me if this comment is invalid. Assuming the entry is from your living room and the home runs lengthways with the hall linking the bathroom, ldry and bedroom from the kitchen. The issue with this is that having two doors in the kitchen means you cannot form a working triangle for it to function well and don't have enough wall to fit out with tall storage. However, if you sealed up the door to the hall and opened access to the hall from the lounge as your plans seems to indicate in the top right of the lounge area, then you could widen the front opening into the kitchen rather than remove an entire wall, so integrate it into your living zone without lumping a kitchen in the middle of your lounge, you will improve your walk through flow, and gain a new length of wall in the kitchen where your fridge could go into the corner with a larger pantry flanking it, then your proposed layout t follow....See MorePosition of skylights in open plan kitchen/living/dining
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5 years agomoving the door into the master bedroom will create privacy and it would be useful to keep the external kitchen door so something like this might work but you may wish to remove the address off your plans by deleting your last comment and reposting
an amended copy of the listing
Camille
5 years agoCamille
5 years agooklouise
5 years agoplan as requested but i'm wondering if you sacrificed some space off the kitchen that the hall to the master suite could include a study nook and bookshelves to give more purpose to the space but depends on what you would like to include in the kitchen and pantry
Camille
5 years agooklouise
5 years agoCamille
5 years agooklouise
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agothe new kitchen location is excellent and very welcoming and the sink location should connect with plumbing from the ensuite and the old fireplace space can be added to the wiw, not having the sink on the outside wall allows better connection to the outdoors and aiming to have a study nook that can take advantage of the view out the north window i've wrapped a desk and shelving around the outside of the pantry and to be able to sit five people around the island only needs about 30cm depth x 50cm width each for knees and plates and the island in my plan is 2500 x 1000, the old kitchen window and doors should be swopped for taller windows and i've added a combustion wood fire against the outside wall to make sense of the blank wall between the new windows
oklouise