Help with Floorpan

[Pullers01]

Hi All,

 

Hope you are well? 
 

Looking for some help and advice really.

 

Seen a house I like at a reasonably good price in a good area problem is, it does need modernising. 
 

For me the kitchen needs to be made bigger, so possibly toilet moving etc. Just looking for advice, inspiration and ideas? 
 

what would you do? 

[ProDave]

I think I know that design of house, a relative used to live in one.

 

If so the good news is the walls of the "block house" are not load bearing.  They knocked through from the kitchen into the blockhouse making that all into a larger kitchen.  The downsides they lost the downstairs WC and the blockhouse had almost no insulation so it was cold.

[LeserattePD]

I know it’s a bit late to answer this - for me, the porch and hallway seem to serve redundant functions. Getting rid of the hallway and opening that up with the lounge would be one option, but the front of the house clearly signals this as the main entry. 

So I would be reconfiguring the porch area. Do you really need a 2nd entry area with a door to the outside here? I’d think not. So I’d wall up that door and make that usable space.

The toilet could potentially go under the stairs, though in built storage under the stairs would also be an option. If you want to retain the toilet in that area, can you unify it with the utility room in some way? Two very small rooms or one bigger room with the utilities hidden behind curtains or in a cupboard? Door to be next to front wall of the porch. 

The kitchen/dining room wall could go easily, that would give you more options regarding the kitchen. If you move the toilet to either left side of porch or under the stairs, you now have that extra space for the kitchen. I assume the weird thing in the kitchen attached to the stairs is the fridge? I’d definitely remove that. All of a sudden you’ll have a nice L shaped kitchen with space for an island or a U shaped kitchen. 🤷 that’s what I would do there