Laundry or Butler's Pantry?
Simon Champion
5 years ago
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Comments (15)Without a scaled plan I have tips only. I agree with putting the hallway up the middle so that you make the most of the sunlight and not a rabbit warren. I think it is important to have a sunny kitchen (puts you in a good mood first thing in the morning). Use skylights if you can afford, they can really make a room. Try not to have a long skinny lounge room as it is way too hard to place your furniture, especially if watching TV is important. I also dont think a laundry and butlers pantry should be in the same room IF you plan on storing food in there too. The moisture / humidity from the laundry can destroy your food. Food for thought! :)...See MoreCheap extensions
Comments (2)You might need to move this from the Other thread to Design Dilemma to get more responses....See MoreKitchen and laundry renovation
Comments (11)Hi Seren, You appear to have a very good grasp on the way forward for your new house, very exciting. As per normal the agents plans leave a lot to be guessed and with limited other info, like who's going to be living there, are you working from home, Aspect etc etc. You will and have already received a lot of interesting helpful ideas for your consideration, this will be helpful when you proceed with your chosen local Pro after having lived in the house for 6-12 mths to get a better understanding of the flow and use etc I would also like you to add to this. Butlers Pantries are a Fad and were originally built in house holds that had a Butler or employed some one to clean/cleanup for them. This space is much better to be included in the actual carefully planned kitchen, Laundry, I don't agree with it being combined with the current kitchen in that very small space, where do you put dirty laundry and baskets full of either clean or dirty, there's not enough floor space, so will make a very small kitchen even smaller Ensuite and WIR I don't think that they are a must, another fad, when your 3 bedroom 1 bath home was built they did the right thing with making the toilet separate to the bathroom to allow for better function. I love spaces that can be multi functional and I'am not talking about Media rooms. Bedrooms can be so much more and yours appear to be of good size but we won't know until correct measurements are taken. Bedrooms are great spaces to get away to with a comfortable chair or two to read and yep watch TV, these days they take up so little space and as I'am not the football loving kind it works for me. Home office Study, Don't put in your bedroom, horrible, that's why in my plan even though the space is small, I have suggested a separate Landry, a Pantry/Study/computer looking out into the rear garden. A pantry only needs a wall of narrow shelves to store appliances and food stuff in Containers, I don't want to stand in a Pantry doing dishes!. That's why we have open plan kitchen family rooms to spend time together, formal dining rooms aren't necessary. Yes, to remove walls is a bit more complicated than not having to, I have experience with this having helped remove a large brick wall in our Federation house to allow for a combined kitchen and family room which was the best thing we did. Hubby and a builder neighbour fitted the two steel RXJ's, I was on brick removal duty with a wheel barrow. ( We had a family engineer approve this work). There wasn't enough space to build out and have a pool, so we chose to go with a pool instead. Your house as far as can be seen appears to have a reasonable amount of land, so a connected Pavillion might be the best solution going forward to give you more space. Can't just allow the Pro's to make long Posts Take your time and keep us posted cheers...See MoreAdvice needed for a cheap and fab benchtop
Comments (13)Thanks Bigreader, we don’t have a floor plan for the house but the relocated power points, tapware, sink and new dry walls are all happening. We won’t see power cords or washer hoses once it’s done, they will be behind the scenes. Can’t change door hinge on fridge either, we have checked that already, and we can’t extend to buy a new fridge as well as this one isn’t very old and we’ve had to buy a new washing machine as well as the hot water system. It sure does all add up!...See MoreJodie
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