Floor plan help

I think you could leave most of the current wall where it is and just get rid of some of the middle section.

I would put the fridge next to the lounge door then run the kitchen down the rest of the 2000 wall and right along the 3700 wall. Close off the area that is 1800 x 2200 for use as a walk in pantry with a door next to your kitchen bench. You may still have room for a small island bench.

Put the dining room top left and have cabinetry built against the current wall for your study, put your sliding doors between these two areas.

Knock out the current wall down a bit from the study to the pantry and behind that you will have a 3 sided area with plenty of room for the kids and other stuff you want there.

I hope you understand what I mean and can draw it up to see how it looks (sorry I don’t have those skills) .

grumblegum - thanks. I have drawn that out and I'm not sure an island would fit, so it would be more like a straight line kitchen. It's very similar to how it is currently setup and the study and dining in one and are little squashed, although we do have 2 desks at the moment.

Re the wall, I think we'd like to remove most of it as that fixed window overlooks the backyard and it would be nice to be able to see out there from the kitchen etc.

Evelin- Yes the doorways are a problem. I wish we had moved them before but both areas on either side of this are now renovated, so we are stuck with them.

The table would be for 4 normally but needs to accommodate 6 every now and then.

Yes definitely need a window on the south wall but it is flexible where it goes.

On the benchtop we just need a toaster, and prefer microwave to not be underbench. We can pull the kettle out as required.

I would consider putting the study area on the north wall under/beside a window so it has good lighting during the day. Then out of the kitchen, dining & play area, consider which gets most use during the day & put that on north side too.
If you have breakfast at the dining table it would be nice to have that near the eastern window for morning sunshine.
It may be a bit cheaper to have the kitchen beside laundry where you already have plumbing.
If the study is for adults, you may appreciate it being walled in for quiet, (& for neatness?) but it reduces the flexibility as your needs change over the years. If the kitchen is the only fixed furniture then you can change the placement of the other rooms as often as you change your mind.
If the 'study' is for your primary-aged kids to do homework in, it's good for it to be near kitchen so you can see them working & talk as you prepare dinner.
Try to avoid a large window on the south side. More glass = more heat lost in winter. glass on north = increased sunlight & warmth; glass on south = only heat lost, minimal light in.

Hi Jayta,

I can draw you another plan. The space between the sink and cooktop seems a bit small for food preparation. Where is your dishwasher? How big is your cooktop, 600 or 900? Is your oven going to be under the cooktop or built in a wall unit? If in a wall unit next to the fridge, an 800mm wide fridge would be too wide. What width is your fridge?

Evelin

Do you mean, that the short side of the U could be 400 deep? If the cupboards would be 600 deep everywhere, on the 2m wall (left) you would have 650 (incl. 50mm for the corner filler) + let say an 800 wide fridge (510l which is a very nice size), you would be left with roughly 600. Even if you shorten the depth of the shout U to 400, the 800 cooktop would be a tight squeeze. I would not want to work where I don't have some space either side. Min space either side should be 300mm.

However, if you consider only to move the oven (if it is only 600mm wide) in a base unit or wall unit next to the fridge, you have more options on the short U side. You wanted 1400 space between both sides, which leaves you with 1300. You could have 2 cabinets with fully pullout drawers, each 650 wide and the cooktop in the middle of it.

If you leave the cooktop and oven in the middle of the short U, you are left on both sides 400mm base cabinets. 400mm is pretty useless, the cost almost as much as 600mm cabinet. you have to deduct the carcuss thinkness it leaves you then withabout 360mm. What would you put into it? However, if this is your prefered layout, you can't even opt for corner pullout cabinets with those inserts which you pull out. They need min 1150 mm, you got only 400 next to the oven, but you would need min 550. They are not cheap for what they are. You should always go for the largest cabinets, because the price increase is minimal. Have a look at the IKEA website.

Can you move the cooktop further left to the corner? If optic is important it might not look right but it would give you more options.

The dishwasher should be at a position, when open, others still can reach the sink or fridge. You cannot have it too far in the corner, the doors of oven and dishwasher would collide.

The corner at the right, if dead, could be turned into an open storage unit for bab's toys, a 600 cupboard turned 180 degrees around.

For inclosing the study, I would suggest if money allows it, to close it off with a sliding door installed to hide between too stud walls (or how it is called, I'm not a native English speaker).

I will play around with the plan now.

Cheers
Evelin

Evelin, try photobucket or tinypic.com ( I use tiny..too easy) copy and paste the ' IMG code' or ' forum ' link ( depend who you use) straight on to here and the pic appears. Takes 2 seconds to up load and 2 seconds to put the code on to here.
Give those a go rather than imagshack.

that's true, you would have difficulties to get things into the dishwasher.
You suggest that the long section of your kitchen is 2600mm.

I started with a dead corner, 650mm, next a 400mm bin, then 600mm for the cabinet and a 900mm cabinet. There is not much room for a practical solution. 2600mm is just too short. The cabinet under the sink was 600. I like large, deep sinks where things "fit in". In a small kitchen like yours, you could consider to have a sink without a drainer and use a towel instead. It leaves you with more bench space.

Here another plan. I can't display a backsplash window, you have to imagine it


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And another version of my first plan, whih had a flaw anyway.


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it's great ay!

In the kitchen in the right corner you have the most space and the sun comes in in the morning, very nice. Below, I moved the storage cabinets closer to the kitchen. I guess that is all, that could be done. Why do you want to move your kitchen from the present location?


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