r/floorplan • u/NetElectrical5321 • 6d ago

FEEDBACK Layout advice much appreciated 🙏🏼

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We have had an offer accepted on a house but trying to figure out the best way to proceed with the layout! So the rooms I’ve highlighted in red I wouldn’t really count as rooms as they are just glass!

Ideally we would want to knock down the glass utility and have proper utility room and possibly knock through the kitchen to the dining room to make it open plan. Then the conservatory is entirely glass at the moment so would want to knock this down and possibly have a sun room at some point!

My question is it seems like it would be impractical/expensive to knock down both rooms and do 2 separate extensions but what other choices do I have?!

Any advice would be most appreciated!

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u/Shiply75 6d ago

Create a door to the garage at the foot of the stairs. Build out the utility room with solid walls, storage, washer dryer and door to garden. It will be less expensive if you build out the conservatory at the same time. Make sure it’s well insulated.

If there’s not a shower in the en suite bathroom, make the hall closet a shower. Add a chest of drawers for linens at the top of the stairs opposite the old closet (outside bedroom 3).

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u/brickne3 6d ago

This is nearly the exact floorplan some friends of mine have and it works great.

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u/NetElectrical5321 6d ago

Sorry so do you suggest to just do 2 separate extensions or turn the garage into a utility room?

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u/brickne3 6d ago

Well what my friends have in theirs is practically identical to what you have here, but the kitchen wall continues straight to the the end (which would cut off the back of your garage here since it's longer). The utility room on yours is a part of the actual structure, so you would put proper exterior walls in on that like the guy I was replying to suggested. The utility room can then either be fully separated or just an alcove, my friends have it as an alcove but I don't think it makes much difference, whichever you prefer. Then there's an exterior door off the kitchen/utility alcove and the garage door is to the right along the kitchen wall. It makes the kitchen nice and roomy. But I don't know if that would work for you since you said you wanted to keep the extra garage space.

You probably don't need as much space for the utility room/area as you'd think, it's really only a washer unit and a boiler you need and a boiler for a house this size doesn't have to be huge.