Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 May 22, 2020 12:12 am Hi all My husband and I (early 30's, no kids but would like to have 2 in the next 5 years or so) are looking to renovate our double brick home, which currently has an enclosed old-style floor plan, tiny ancient kitchen and no internal laundry. Ideally, we'd like to open the space up, renovate the kitchen to be more open plan and have the kitchen opening out onto the backyard as an outdoor entertaining area. We don't have any building/renovation experience and have tossed around the idea in the floor plan below as phase 1: - knocking down the yellow highlighted walls (most likely load bearing, we're getting a structural engineer to confirm) - building a wall in the green highlighted area where the stove, oven, dishwasher etc will be relocated. The current kitchen sink area will be converted to glass doors that open out into the backyard - converting Bed 3 into an internal laundry For phase 2, the room that's called "Family" is the only part of the house that's made out of fibro (asbestos yay!) and freezing in winter so we don't spend much time in there and don't want to keep it. Later on, we'd likely demolish the fibro walls of the "Family" room and use that area to extend into another 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. This will be probably 5 years or more away Looking for feedback and ideas for other ways we may be able to get to where we want (I know knocking down load bearing walls will be likely very exxy). Thanks very much! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Floorplan change - old 3 bed, 1 bath, no laundry house 3May 25, 2020 3:00 pm yep, if you want to do sth on load bearing walls, you need the professionals micwallpaper.com.au Picture your wall to a view Re: Floorplan change - old 3 bed, 1 bath, no laundry house 4May 26, 2020 11:52 pm I think that even if you knocked down the load bearing walls your open plan living room will still be very narrow. Maybe you can convert the lounge/ dining into bedrooms and add a new large family/ dining/ kitchen/ldry at the back south of the kitchen? 2 5254 Old Home Restoration / Renovation Hi, just discovered all these junks left behind under the floor. Could any of these be asbestos? Best to leave as it is or clean up? Thank you for your thoughts 0 377 Been in a similar position and we decided to let the builder go. Some of the PSA money goes to engineering so we at least got those documents and they actually refunded us… 2 4551 |