Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Feb 18, 2015 1:28 pm Hi Everyone, I was wondering if you could help - my husband and I have been living in our house for 2 years now and have decided to renovate. We have a highset house and are building in the bottom section (it is legal height and a slab has already been put down by the previous owners). At the moment we just have the garage and laundry down there. The original plan was to enclose it all, have the main entry downstairs, add some internal stairs, add a kitchen and have the dining room down there. The area upstairs would then become all living room and we would possibly add a study. I have been thinking the past few days and thought that maybe we should just renovate the kitchen upstairs (it would cut costs not having to move plumbing/electricity and we have a huge deck upstairs for entertaining, from memory it's about 8x3m). We could take out the wall separating the current kitchen and lounge, move the dining area into the existing lounge and make the downstairs area the main entry, a lounge room and a study. My husband isn't too sure about this idea because he said it doesn't make sense to have to walk upstairs to get to the kitchen, most houses have the kitchen on the ground floor if it's a double story house. Should we stick to the original plan or would having the kitchen upstairs be ok? Re: Renovating house but not sure about new layout - help pl 2Feb 22, 2015 8:07 am Personally I would prefer to have kitchen & living areas up stairs and bedrooms/laundry etc downstairs. Upstairs you get the nice views, nice breezes etc, and as you say, your nice deck. Bedrooms - who really cares, all you do is sleep in them, right? I know most new two storey houses have bedrooms upstairs and kitchen/living downstairs, but just because that's how most people do it doesn't mean it's right for you. Could you maybe knock out some walls to get rid of a couple of bedrooms from upstairs, move them downstairs, and use the space created upstairs for living/dining area? Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 What you are looking at is fibrous plaster, true gypsum, it is cast on horizontal beds with fibers included to give strength. I has no Asbestos in it. Houses before 1985… 2 4213 1) I had requested R6 ceiling insualtion batts, however I noticed that on some areas there are huge gaps which will allow hot air to sweep in, and also noticed black/grey… 0 888 Here's what I've come up with after playing around for a bit: - Sink facing Alfresco - Bench space to left and right of sink for "water-related" appliances (e.g., soda… 1 6602 |