Admiral Huddy
24-09-2007, 15:35
Firstly, sorry for the poor quality of pics..
Secondly, not all the work I'm doing haha
Ok, we have been planning on changing our kitchen, dining and living room area for sometime because the existing layout is quite poor. Actually, we have been planning these changes since last May 2006. So finally, it's good to get going.
The chnages the kitchen, dining and living room areas.
The whole area is quite large yet it looks out of proportion. The lounge for example has a box in the corner which is our kitchen and there is a niche where the garage ends. This means that the living room and dining area are in an “L” shape (below):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1_1.jpg
Because of the size and its openess, it can get quite cold in the lounge. We also have quite a bit of wasted and unused space which can be put to better use. The niche I mentioned above is one particular area (screen below in front of rad) which is under the stairs. The rest of the under-stiars are all cupboards so these cupboards can be extended into this niche creating extra storage space which at the moment, is quite limited.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1-5.jpg
THe door you see above is going to come forward, level with the wall in the foreground.
The real problem is the kitchen and dinning area. Both are limited in space.. and to get to the kitchen you have to go around the dinning room table. So the idea here is to combine the the kitchen and dinning room creating a long kitchen dinner. This means we can have an area away from the living area. Since it becomes one long room, we can lay easy to clean floor tiles so that Daniel can through his mushy peas where he likes :) We can do this by removing this wall and creating a partition between this area and the longe.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1-2.jpg
We also have hardly any kitchen work surface area yet again, this is because the layout is poor. However, by moving the kitchen door to the dining room area, and replacing the door space with a window, we can use the whole space underneath... ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1-3.jpg
So the objective here is to:
1. Shut the lounge area off completely.
2. to increase the size of the kitchen area by combining it with the dining area.
3. Creat more space
4. more storage space.
5. create a longer surface area in kitchen
Ok, where's my hammer ! :D
Secondly, not all the work I'm doing haha
Ok, we have been planning on changing our kitchen, dining and living room area for sometime because the existing layout is quite poor. Actually, we have been planning these changes since last May 2006. So finally, it's good to get going.
The chnages the kitchen, dining and living room areas.
The whole area is quite large yet it looks out of proportion. The lounge for example has a box in the corner which is our kitchen and there is a niche where the garage ends. This means that the living room and dining area are in an “L” shape (below):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1_1.jpg
Because of the size and its openess, it can get quite cold in the lounge. We also have quite a bit of wasted and unused space which can be put to better use. The niche I mentioned above is one particular area (screen below in front of rad) which is under the stairs. The rest of the under-stiars are all cupboards so these cupboards can be extended into this niche creating extra storage space which at the moment, is quite limited.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1-5.jpg
THe door you see above is going to come forward, level with the wall in the foreground.
The real problem is the kitchen and dinning area. Both are limited in space.. and to get to the kitchen you have to go around the dinning room table. So the idea here is to combine the the kitchen and dinning room creating a long kitchen dinner. This means we can have an area away from the living area. Since it becomes one long room, we can lay easy to clean floor tiles so that Daniel can through his mushy peas where he likes :) We can do this by removing this wall and creating a partition between this area and the longe.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1-2.jpg
We also have hardly any kitchen work surface area yet again, this is because the layout is poor. However, by moving the kitchen door to the dining room area, and replacing the door space with a window, we can use the whole space underneath... ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/hardhuddy/Misc%202007/day1-3.jpg
So the objective here is to:
1. Shut the lounge area off completely.
2. to increase the size of the kitchen area by combining it with the dining area.
3. Creat more space
4. more storage space.
5. create a longer surface area in kitchen
Ok, where's my hammer ! :D