initial suggestion would be to reduce the size of the pantry and place the fridge on the rear wall but i wonder what the 1640 wide space will be used for?? we need to see the whole ground floor plan to make best adjustments..and if you could explained why you need to adjust the size of both floors and posted the whole plan there may be other options worth considering

Thank you. Attached the ground floor plan. The size is being adjusted to accommodate the budget. we are trying to reduce the over all home area in both upper and lower levels by around 10-13 sqmts to be able to bring the over all cost within our budget.

Hi, a couple of side issues first.
I would increase the garage internal width to 3500 taking 300 off hallway.
Second, I would increase the width between fridge and island. Fridges stick out around 100-150 from a standard bench and you want a good 1000 from the door.
Third, I would I would delete th sewing door at start of pantry and put a slider on laundry.
Reduce kitchen by 1m would limit impact, bench could have less reduction

Thank you Kate. Appreciate your inputs.

"trying to reduce the over all home area"

There looks to be a lot of floor space. Is a butler's pantry a must have for you? Is the walk-in off the area labelled pantry part of it or general storage?

Access to the laundry through the kitchen reduces potential cupboard space to maintain the thoroughfare and for resale value some people hate the idea of carting sweaty smellies through the food prep area, though on the other hand some people say they like being able to monitor the progress of the washing while working in the kitchen.

Really good advice from Kate about making the fridge space deep enough so the fridge does not stick out.

I think you need to combine both your threads and talk about overall improvements to your layout rather than slicing something off somewhere.

@macyjean thank you. no The butlers pantry is not a must to have. The walk of area is a part of it.

Agree with maceyjean, I would always prefer a separate room for laundry.
My suggestion is to remove pantry. With good design you can have a wall of pantry. With room for appliances and food storage.
With taking the walk in pantry out, you will reduce the wasted metres and could also reduce cabinetry costs.

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Sorry, why are you reducing length of kitchen on ground floor and width on top floor?

@Kate just to bring down the home size with minimum impact on the individual room areas.

to reduce overall floor area my suggestions include omitting the small alfresco in favour of more generous room sizes with an overall reduction in total floor area of about 20 sqm ..a simple pergola covered paved area could be added later..changes include moving the stairs, bigger kitchen, compact pantry, a downstairs powder room, internal and external garage doors, separate laundry, bigger lounge and family/dining room ...upstairs has a bigger rumpus that can be divided into a bed 5 and small study and there's lots more storage upstairs and down..glass doors and windows need to be located to suit orientation and outlook

Thank you for all that work @oklouise.That was perfectly worked out.

The stair case and the kitchen in our original plan are intentionally placed in those Areas of the home. Sorry for not mentioning this point earlier.

The stair case must stay anywhere after the garage but not be swapped with the kitchens position.

understanding all your restrictions would help suggest other options but the original staircase uses too much space and if you add scaled sized furniture to the original plans you'll see that the meals area is mostly taken up with walkways to the stairs and back door and there's very little space left for a dining table..the stairs have to fit both the floors of the house and it's not possible to reduce staircase space upstairs without also changing downstairs

why can't the stairs be moved?

Brilliant job as usual OKlouise

Great point about including a downstairs powder room. Another great design oklouise.

That's a pretty cool plan.

That’s a wonderful plan @oklouise . I am quite happy with the design and thank you very much.

Hi @oklouise,

The following is the suggested design to us for the on suite and the bathroom.

Is there anyway we. An workaround to increase the vanity and shower sizes with out changing the position of the toilet.

the location of the bathroom door doesn't allow enough space for the stairs...so i've added the variations in the new bathrooms i posted a few days ago..all changes in one room affect the adjoining rooms anddownstairs so each change has to be made in the whole plan not separate sections