The Kitchen Redesign

Ben

Or: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Accept The Price Of Cabinets

We’ve finally decided what we’re doing at the back of the house, and we could focus on redesigning the kitchen. The extension part is going to need some fairly extensive work to get it up to snuff.

The wall cavities need properly insulating and sealing from below, and the floor needs to be sealed around the edge to stop the wind whistling in from under it. We want to replace and likely change the shape of the windows, and put in a new back door.

OK, well, here goes.

First of all we drew up our three ideas.

  • Idea 1
  • Idea 2
  • Idea 3
Our three initial ideas. The grid is 50cm per square.

Which one do you prefer? It should become fairly obvious which we liked the best!

After a lot of measuring and umming and ahhing we decided the best thing to do was draw it up in 3D in the scale model of the room we had made a few months ago.

The empty model

And for reference, here is the current look of the room:

The current kitchen layout

And so finally we come to the big reveal….

Ta da! The top down view.

Oh my, a 3D model. How fancy. SO FANCY. Normal plebeian pictures are below.

  • The built in larder and fridge housing
  • The same with the doors hidden
  • Built in shroud for the boiler and washing machine, doors hidden again
  • Under the stairs and the toilet
  • From the garden (hovering in the air, there’s a big drop!)
As many views as I could manage

The downstairs loo requires knocking through part of the wall by the current cooker and building two new walls around that section of the kitchen to create a new room. We then get the required one door separation and still have room for a tumble dryer under the stairs.

We also get lots of prep space, big windows (NOT south facing) to view our garden, a nice big door with top opening to let in air in the summer and a bright eating space. Also importantly a large food storage larder/cupboard so no need to keep any in the kitchen area.

The kitchen area remains bright with the addition of numerous recessed spotlights and very little overhead items (and no overhead cupboards!).

The walls are Farrow & Ball Light Blue, and the cabinets are all F&B Inchyra Blue. We’ve used Beech as the worktops, and big ceramic tiles for the floor, however both of these are pretty open to interpretation.

This is the ideal plan, but cost will ultimately decide how all this happens.

If you have our contact details let us know what you think!

Categories: Renovation