Opinions on my downstairs living/kitchen/dining/toilet layout

[Dan_the_man]

Hi, I have plans for a renovation of my terrace house. I actually also have a front living room with a bay window but I have not included it in these plans.

 

I would appreciate peoples thoughts on my design and layout. My only concern is that the living area is quite cramped but I must repeat that I have a second bigger living room at the front of the house so maybe this mitigates this somewhat.

 

The downstairs toilet will house the gas boiler and an integrated washing machine & dryer stacked on top of each other. I have the complete kitchen on two sides with the cabinet against the brick wall not critical to the kitchen triangle. My only flaw with the kitchen is that I wanted a floor to ceiling food larder unit but have had to settle to splitting up the dry food storage. I am using the left set of drawers on the island for the majority of my dried food, I will use one of the overhead cupboards for tinned food storage and the prep cabinet next to the sink cabinet to store fruits and vegetables. I could use one of the floor to ceiling cabinets for bulk storage of food. I also do not like how I have had to place the fridge/freezer and oven beside each other but I believe modern appliances are insulated enough to not effect the operation of the fridge/freezer too much.

 

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[Mr Punter]

You have obviously looked long and hard and come up with something that you like and I am sure it will work.

 

The fridge freezer / oven is not optimal but they are both built in so also have a couple of layers of chipboard to separate.  The oven is probably not on for more than half an hour a day on average.

 

Very pretty plans and elevations!

[Dan_the_man]

12 hours ago, Mr Punter said:

You have obviously looked long and hard and come up with something that you like and I am sure it will work.

 

The fridge freezer / oven is not optimal but they are both built in so also have a couple of layers of chipboard to separate.  The oven is probably not on for more than half an hour a day on average.

 

Very pretty plans and elevations!

 

Thank you Mr Punter.

 

There can be no accusations that I have do not enough space around the island now. I have cleverly eaten into the empty area on the dining and living side to make room around the island.

[Mr Punter]

Don't forget wiring for speakers, ethernet, TV, kettle, toaster, coffee machine, radio etc.  Also you may want side tables near the sofa for drinks, nibbles books.

 

What happened to the laundry?

 

I like the shelves.  Is it a kit?

 

What software did you use for the drawing?

 

Nice project.  Lots of work to achieve this!  Can you keep us up-to-date with progress?

[Dan_the_man]

The laundry is in the downstairs toilet. I plan to put the toilet lid down and use that as a set down for the laundry basket. I am in discussions with the architect about moving the toilet back to the stud wall if I can make room what with the pocket door and wall hung cistern. This would make the laundry/downstairs toilet 1400mm wide which I feel is sufficient, the toilet would have a front projection of 930mm which is more than enough.

 

The shelves will just be industrial style pipe work.

 

The software is sketchup.