Browse Forums Interior Decorating Lounge Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 2Jul 14, 2008 9:52 am Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 4Jul 14, 2008 6:55 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 6Jul 16, 2008 2:39 pm Thanks so much for your ideas, they have given me something to think about.
Mrs B Loved your idea for a butlers pantry but I just don't think there will be room, plus I need the 4th bedroom for the third baby I am trying to talk my husband into having Michelle Your idea for the lounge area was great too, except that we have a really big window at the front of the room where the lounge would be facing. Our house is also western facing so it gets a lot of sun and is very bright. GOOD NEWS though. We had an interior decorator come today and she had a good idea, I hope this makes sense, I will start at the area marked dining room and work in a clockwise direction. I will use the names for the rooms as they are marked on the plan. * 'dining room' becomes study * lounge, bedroom, ensuite and carport area are all opened up and become living/dining/kitchen. The kitchen would be where the carport is, opening out to our beautiful new entertaining area. *kitchen would become bedroom/robe and ensuite, I guess some of the dining room wouldbe used for this also. She suggested putting cupboards in the dining area also for storage of toys. Her idea was that we are getting new kitchen and ensuite anyway so the cost is already there, it deosn't matter where they go. The plumbing is in the right spots to swap the ensuite and kitchen, the only problem I can see is installing a toilet into the new ensuite - anyone know how much that would cost? I know I will miss not having a play area for the kids, but a bigger living space will provide room for them to get their toys out to play with. I am so excited about this and just love that we have an option of something completely different. What do you all think? I would love your opinions/ideas about it. Tell me if you think we are dreaming, that there will not be enough space. I am hoping that it will eliminate some of the dead space between the playarea and the dining room. If you have gotten this far and understand what I am talking about then thanks very much! Andrea Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 7Jul 16, 2008 3:57 pm While all this looks and sounds great……I’d be quick smart getting a few quotes from a few builders. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 8Jul 16, 2008 4:45 pm Where do you think the cost will be with these ideas? From what I can see it will be some new walls, and some cupboards all of the rest would be what we were doing anyway. I really have no idea so would love to know how this will be a whole lot more expensive.
Thanks Andrea Edited to add - do you have an idea of how much this would be? Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 9Jul 16, 2008 6:16 pm Actually the doing away of things will cost you as well as the new walls and some plumbing.
Don’t get me wrong, your house will be much better laid out from what the decorator said, but I think you will find it is a full renovation now. Moving the kitchen, moving bathroom, it all adds up. I say go for it, and I can’t help you with the cost of it. Defiantly more than just knocking a few out. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 10Jul 16, 2008 9:48 pm This might help with the budget for a few of the plans.
http://www.archicentre.com.au/2008Jancostguide.pdf Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 11Jul 23, 2008 2:43 pm Well we have our plans back from the interior designer, I am pretty happy with them, although I would swap the dining and lounge around as where she has the lounge there is quite a large window which is western facing.
I am not sure on the kitchen design either, I think I would have to play around with that also. She has managed to leave the existing sliding door as part of our bedroom and the kitchen window will be the ensuite window. She seemed to think that it would be cheaper for us to get all of our own tradies and organise the work ourselves, but I had a plumber here today who said that is not the case - he gave me the number of someone who is a builder and a plumber that we will get to quote us. I would love to know what you think of it. Andrea Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 12Jul 23, 2008 2:46 pm Is there any way you can show the original and new plan together so it's easier to compare? Sorry to be a pain. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 13Jul 23, 2008 2:52 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 15Jul 23, 2008 3:01 pm Thanks Michelle.
It looks pretty good except the kitchen. It would drive me nuts having to walk around the bench to get into the kitchen. I think with all that storage area, I'd rejig and still have a big kitchen but make a nice big butler's pantry. Also, with the study, I'd have double doors off the entry way rather than a door off the hallway. The double doors would give the room versatility, i.e. tv room, study, bedroom, library. With the door where it is it will just feel like a bedroom. Jo I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 16Jul 23, 2008 3:03 pm In the event of sounding picky here………………
I like the way it was originally!!!! I would leave it how you have it now, take out the back wall of the family and extend the family into the carport! Then sit back and redefine the spaces and their uses. I’m not happy at all with the new kitchen space. BUT!!!!!! That just my opinion. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 17Jul 23, 2008 3:04 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 18Jul 23, 2008 3:10 pm Thanks Michelle and Jo, I am not happy with the kitchen either. Taking the wall out and building in the carport is a great idea and one we thought of years ago, but my husband is insistent that we extend the ensuite. i am happy with the size it is now but he is adamant we need it bigger.
My main want/need is to have a wider and larger lounge area, not having a play area for the kids is fine by me because I hate how messy it always looks, and also I worry that it will be a dead space in a few years when the kids have grown out of those toys. This is too bloody hard!! Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 19Jul 23, 2008 3:12 pm Extend into the carport, extend your unsuit out as well into the new space!
Use what’s left as the kids play area. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Please help us organise our house - UPDATED 20Jul 23, 2008 3:58 pm ellyash but my husband is insistent that we extend the ensuite. i am happy with the size it is now but he is adamant we need it bigger. Ask him to clean it......trust me that argument will shut him up! mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard of course there are legal avenues. You've already mentioned it. Sue them. I find it odd that lawyers wouldnt be willing to take on the case, given CCT evidence and… 1 24222 Hi, I have a block that I am planning on building on soon to both side boundaries, which both have other houses constructed that were also built boundary to… 0 529 Thankyou so much 😀 I've decided on White on white for doors and trims, White on white 50% on ceiling and Mt buller for walls. Fingers crossed it will look OK 😀 2 7499 |