Re-model ground floor layout? Budding architects or anyone talented?

[rossyl]

Not sure if it is worthwhile posting as not sure anyone would be particularly interested.

We are hopefully purchasing a new place and will be looking to remodel the ground floor layout. This is likely to involve knocking some walls down.

We've got some ideas, but keen to hear others.

If interested, or if there's anyone fairly talented at this stuff, I'll post up the floorplan.

Thanks

 

[Wanderer]

My bro whilst not an architect by any stretch of the imagination is a proper builder - ie full house from scratch, he knows what won't fall down and what you can remove safely and no one ever died.....

 

[rossyl]

My bro whilst not an architect by any stretch of the imagination is a proper builder - ie full house from scratch, he knows what won't fall down and what you can remove safely and no one ever died.....

Thanks. If pockets are deep enough (not saying they are ) you can pretty much knock down anything. So it's not "can you" change, it's more so ideas of what to change. If we get a layout we love, we can work out what to do about steels/etc after.

 

[Gazcw]

Not sure if it is worthwhile posting as not sure anyone would be particularly interested.

We are hopefully purchasing a new place and will be looking to remodel the ground floor layout. This is likely to involve knocking some walls down.

We've got some ideas, but keen to hear others.

If interested, or if there's anyone fairly talented at this stuff, I'll post up the floorplan.

Thanks

 

[rossyl]

hahaha - Brilliant!

 

[Gazcw]

hahaha - Brilliant!

You can have that for free.

 

[Ebenezer]

Open plan is overrated. You need defined spaces you can escape to with a closed a door!
Eb

 

[Bebs]

Happy to take a look Rossyl

 

[Wanderer]

Thanks. If pockets are deep enough (not saying they are ) you can pretty much knock down anything. So it's not "can you" change, it's more so ideas of what to change. If we get a layout we love, we can work out what to do about steels/etc after.

Said bro was working in the shop to left here, noticed huge cracks appearing in the RH wall, informed the authorities, turns out the occupant of the house to the right was refused planning permission to go into the loft, so decided to go down and dug out a cellar, no footings or buttresses, clay soil, rained, wham, whole lot slipped into the cellar....

Pleaded insanity and I'm not even joking!

 

[rossyl]

Said bro was working in the shop to left here, noticed huge cracks appearing in the RH wall, informed the authorities, turns out the occupant of the house to the right was refused planning permission to go into the loft, so decided to go down and dug out a cellar, no footings or buttresses, clay soil, rained, wham, whole lot slipped into the cellar....

Pleaded insanity and I'm not even joking!

Wow. There have been a few cases where people have tried to do basements "on the cheap" it has actually resulted, i believe, in criminal cases due to injury. Pretty silly not to do things properly, when it concerns structural integrity.

 

[rossyl]

Happy to take a look Rossyl

Thanks

 

[rossyl]

We are open to knocking down walls. So let's worry about steels later.

House is a victorian terrace, that we'll hopefully be exchanging on soon!

Ground floor shown only, the top two floors we are happy with our plans.

What we are looking to achieve is:

• open plan / entertaining space
• large kitchen
• dining table for 8
• utility room
• TV area

Reduced ceiling height area is frustrating.

• Small area by stairs - this is where the stairs turn and likely difficult to change
• Larger area, this is below a first floor room, we could look to change the ceiling/floor height.

 

[Wanderer]

We are open to knocking down walls. So let's worry about steels later.

What we are looking to achieve is:

• open plan / entertaining space
• large kitchen
• dining table for 8
• utility room
• TV area

Reduced ceiling height area is frustrating.

• Small area by stairs - this is where the stairs turn and likely difficult to change
• Larger area, this is below a first floor room, we could look to change the ceiling/floor height.

View attachment 83042

Is that the Vorbunker or the Führerbunker?

 

[Bebs]

Your 5 requirements, can these be combined or are these 5 different ‘rooms’ ?
Where is the kitchen/utility now?
Does the staircase have to stay in place where it is?
First impressions are this is likely to be very costly with the limited headroom issue and the centrally placed staircase.

 

[rossyl]

Your 5 requirements, can these be combined or are these 5 different ‘rooms’ ?
Where is the kitchen/utility now?
Does the staircase have to stay in place where it is?
First impressions are this is likely to be very costly with the limited headroom issue and the centrally placed staircase.

Yep, happy to combine them and merge rooms.

Kitchen is currently the large room with bi-folds at the back.

There is no utility, all other room are just reception rooms at present.

Staircase - we do not want to move. That would be too costly. As well as stairs up, it is also the staircase down to the cellar.

The low head height, that could be overcome. We might raise the the ceiling/floor - that was our first thought.

 

[CatmanV2]

Wow. There have been a few cases where people have tried to do basements "on the cheap" it has actually resulted, i believe, in criminal cases due to injury. Pretty silly not to do things properly, when it concerns structural integrity.

Pretty sure it happened in London not so long ago. In one of the iceberg type developments.

C

 

[Oneball]

Pretty sure it happened in London not so long ago. In one of the iceberg type developments.

C

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[Oneball]

We are open to knocking down walls. So let's worry about steels later.

House is a victorian terrace, that we'll hopefully be exchanging on soon!

Ground floor shown only, the top two floors we are happy with our plans.

What we are looking to achieve is:

• open plan / entertaining space
• large kitchen
• dining table for 8
• utility room
• TV area

Reduced ceiling height area is frustrating.

• Small area by stairs - this is where the stairs turn and likely difficult to change
• Larger area, this is below a first floor room, we could look to change the ceiling/floor height.

View attachment 83042

Looking at that I’d make a guess that the room at the back is an extension so to make it difficult the wall between that and the hall/other room will be load bearing. Nothing is impossible though.

 

[Bebs]

So the obvious choice is to knock through the whole right hand side and open all that up to one large kitchen and dining area, open plan. Then use the very small room to the left of the kitchen for a utility room with an opening from the kitchen and then close off the existing entrance to that small room.
Then combine the two remaining rooms on the left into one large TV lounge area.
Obviously close off all or some of the existing doors from the hallway, or create new ones to fit.

 

[rossyl]

So the obvious choice is to knock through the whole right hand side and open all that up to one large kitchen and dining area, open plan. Then use the very small room to the left of the kitchen for a utility room with an opening from the kitchen and then close off the existing entrance to that small room.
Then combine the two remaining rooms on the left into one large TV lounge area.
Obviously close off all or some of the existing doors from the hallway, or create new ones to fit.

Thanks sounds a good plan. I did forget to include a downstairs loo which needs to find a home.