1930's House - Open plan kitchen diner

[Max1]

Hello everyone,

 

We are due to move into our 1930's semi detached house in a few months.

 

We are looking forward to hearing new ideas on how we can create an open plan kitchen diner amongst other projects ?

Edited June 2, 2021 by Max1

[Big Jimbo]

Where is the diner ?

[Max1]

3 minutes ago, Big Jimbo said:

Where is the diner ?

 

This is just a quick introduction post, I'll create another with more ?

[Adsibob]

Here are some digital renders of the open plan kitchen diner we are doing with our 1930s semi 

[Max1]

Wow, that looks amazing. Best of luck with the project.

[Big Jimbo]

2 minutes ago, Adsibob said:

Here are some digital renders of the open plan kitchen diner we are doing with our 1930s semi 

I like that. Great colours. Hope you builder has got his act together. that ceiling will take some work.

[ProDave]

The "typical" 1930's semi has a living room at the front, a dining room at the back and the pokiest of tiny kitchens at the back behind the stairs and hall.  I grew up in such a house and my sister still lives there still with the pokey little kitchen.

 

About the best "simple" alteration is take down the wall between the kitchen and the dining room to make a kitchen / diner across the whole of the back of the house.  That is a structural alteration involving removing a load bearing wall.  It's even better if you can incorporate part of the hall into that opening up to square off the new room.

[Adsibob]

31 minutes ago, ProDave said:

The "typical" 1930's semi has a living room at the front, a dining room at the back and the pokiest of tiny kitchens at the back behind the stairs and hall.  I grew up in such a house and my sister still lives there still with the pokey little kitchen.

Yes, that is how ours was; we knocked down the wall between the kitchen and dining room and then lived in it for a couple of years whilst we waited for planning. Now we have knocked out the entire back and done a full width extension. The only way we got permission was by having the extension with the roof sloping downwards as it approaches each of our two neighbours’ houses. Hence the slightly unusual ceiling.

[Ferdinand]

Welcome.

 

My only comment at this point is to think VERY carefully about the things you only get this chance to do, and to do them to the whole thing not just the extension.

 

I mean things like wall insulation to at least newbuild standard, things under the floor, making it all maintainable for the future, and so on.

 

Ferdinand