Extension plans

[steveonts]

Evening all.

Had some plans drawn up for an extension and was hoping to have some input from you guys. Can anyone spot anything thats glaringly silly, badly designed, out of place or just plain wont work?

This is how it is now



This is the current draft plan



I feel like im missing something but overall im happy with the flow of the design..but would appreciate input from all.

Thanks

[Hitch]

wc in kitchen is oddly placed. What if someone does a massive dump as you're sitting down to dinner? It also blocks off the view to what I presume is garden space? Why not swap it with the dining area and have a separate access off the entry space?

I'm also not a fan of the living room also being the main corridor to the bedrooms.

Edited by Hitch on Tuesday 31st July 23:41

Edited by Hitch on Tuesday 31st July 23:44

[pitchfork]

It seems that any journey to/from the kitchen involves going through the entrance hall.

That means any time you have breakfast in the conservatory, you're taking your cornflakes through the hall. Similarly, if you're having pizza in front of the telly, it's going through the hall. Late night cocoa in bed? Mind those wellies.

[PositronicRay]

It depends on what the garden's like, the road you're on, noise levels and any views to take advantage of. Generally I prefer living areas on the back, I don't spend much time gazing out of bedrooms so I'd lump those together on the front with living/dining/kitchen overlooking the back garden.

ETA

I can see how having a master on the back with patio doors would be a nice thing. Oh and I'd try to squeeze in a utility/boot room with a separate entrance.

Edited by PositronicRay on Wednesday 1st August 07:30

[irocfan]

good shout on swapping the entrance and dining room! As an aside, I thought that there had to be 2 doors between a kitchen and WC?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Same as Hitch, poor layout for the hall and WC-they’re the glaring errors.

No through run from the front door to the bedrooms-annoying at best.

Master bedroom to the front? Only you know if that’s sensible as it’s plot specific.

Did an architect actually draw this up?

[Welshbeef]

Why is the Hall as big as the dining room?

[alfaman]

Weird layout. Doesn’t flow well.

Smallish bitty looking kitchen/ dining / hall

Which end is the garden?

I’d go for large living room / diner overlooking the rear garden with plenty of windows / or folding doors.

Sorry but I don’t get the rationale for that layout

[Danm1les]

I would always try to avoid a second hallway within a house, just feels odd. Equally what other have said about the loo, can that be moved to be off the main entrance hallway? Gives the option to open the front door if its real bad in there...

[LivingTheDream]

Is the soil pipe moving or remaining as is?

Presumably its currently in the corner of kitchen and bathroom? This would put it in the corner of bedroom four.

[rsbmw]

Chips officially pissed on

[brianb]

I agree with the rest

Move the WC to the hall
Continue the hall to the bedrooms, passing through the kitchen each and every time is not ideal

[paulrockliffe]

I can't see the dimensions on the rooms, but the kitchen looks disproportionately large compared with the dining area; are you in danger of ending up with a large area that isn't used for anything in the middle of the kitchen? Could you increase the size of the cupboard so it's a pantry, and put an opening on the other wall so you can walk straight through to short-cut to the bedrooms? Keep the access from the hallway too obviously. One way or another I'd want access from the kitchen to the bedroom corridor, to create a circular path around the house.

I'd prefer a better connection between kitchen and living room too, but you'll need to compromise somewhere and that isn't the worst compromise. Especially as eating pizza in front of the TV belongs in the Council thread.

Toilet should be part of the hallway rather than the kitchen/dining area as everyone has said. But I'd also throw in whether you need a downstairs toilet in a bungalow at all if the bathroom location and corridors are done properly?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

paulrockliffe said:

I'd also throw in whether you need a downstairs toilet in a bungalow at all if the bathroom location and corridors are done properly?

More for guests not having to use your family bathroom.

[paulrockliffe]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

paulrockliffe said:

I'd also throw in whether you need a downstairs toilet in a bungalow at all if the bathroom location and corridors are done properly?

More for guests not having to use your family bathroom.

Is that a thing? Spare bathrooms for guests? My rule of thumb is if you don't trust someone in your bathroom, don't let them in your house int he first place. Certainly don't build them their own bathroom.

Guests use my bathroom all the time as we only have one, what's the issue? Better to have one downstairs because it's convenient, not because it's weird for guests to use the main one.

Given the layout is going to require compromise somewhere, I'd be inclined to compromise the spare bathroom for guests given there's a better one round the corner that everyone would prefer to use.

[rsbmw]

Seeing as it's being converted to 4 bed, relatively safe to assume there is more than one person living in it and thus two places to st is a good idea. Even if just for resale value / sale-ability.

[brianb]

I agree with the rest

Move the WC to the hall
Continue the hall to the bedrooms, passing through the kitchen each and every time is not ideal

[robfox]

The layout of the enlarged Bedroom 2 feels awkward. Are you going to be using the new space created by the extension, or is it being built just so that you can have the new door to the garden? You could put a dressing table in the alcove on the left, but it's a long way from the dressing room.

The dressing room looks quite small to be used as access to the en-suite. If someone is standing in the dressing room with the wardrobe doors open, will another person be able to squeeze through? Can you rearrange things to get a door directly into the en-suite?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

paulrockliffe said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

paulrockliffe said:

I'd also throw in whether you need a downstairs toilet in a bungalow at all if the bathroom location and corridors are done properly?

More for guests not having to use your family bathroom.

Is that a thing? Spare bathrooms for guests?

Yes. Or it is for some people. You know, other people have different priorities I guess. Our family bathroom is next to the nursery and if we have guests it's nice for them not to have to flush a loo next-door to where our kid is sleeping.

Or my haemorrhoid cream lying on the window sill (joking )

[robfox]

robfox said:

The layout of the enlarged Bedroom 2 feels awkward. Are you going to be using the new space created by the extension, or is it being built just so that you can have the new door to the garden? You could put a dressing table in the alcove on the left, but it's a long way from the dressing room.

The dressing room looks quite small to be used as access to the en-suite. If someone is standing in the dressing room with the wardrobe doors open, will another person be able to squeeze through? Can you rearrange things to get a door directly into the en-suite?

I can't read the room dimensions - is the proposed Bedroom 2 as big as it looks? Could you move the bed out into the room and put a dressing room behind it, like this?



The new wall could hide that pier in the bedroom where the external wall used to be, getting rid of the alcove near the window and allowing you to position the bed anywhere along the wall. Use the space that had been allocated to the dressing room to enlarge the en-suite, and you now have room for a bath, or for his and hers sinks.