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January 18, 2006
Multiple kitchen floor plans
This is the layout of the kitchen as it currently stands. The kitchen table lives underneath the large window on the west side (the top of the drawing is north). There's just enough space for a half dozen adults to sit around it, but it's far too cozy for my liking. Plus, counter space is very limited. Regardless of what happens to the kitchen, the fridge will move beside the stove and we'll install a dishwasher in the fridge's place, gaining 32 inches of counterspace on the west wall.
The next image, our first option for renovation (and Dana's preferred option), involves a tightening up of the bathroom so that we can install cabinets along either the north wall (as shown) and possibly extend these around the corner to the edge of the bathroom door. I'd like to add a built-in book case at the south end of the bathroom, as that space isn't really all that useful, and it would give me somewhere to put cook books, along with some of my good dishes and crystal. Leaving the bathroom at 4 pieces means that we wouldn't have to add another bathroom, aside from the planned master bedroom ensuite upstairs. But, I'm not convinced that having a tub & shower off of the kitchen is a good idea. On the plus side, at least you won't be looking directly into the bathroom from the kitchen table.
The second option, and the one that I'm leaning towards, turns the bathroom off of the kitchen into a two piece powder room, opening up enough space to put the kitchen table in the north-west corner of the kitchen. We can't get around having the door in the middle of the wall because of where the chimney is. But, while I'm not particularly fond of this, having more space for the table, and gaining the 32 inches of counter space mentioned above (for dishwasher) plus another five feet, is more important, at least to me. As with the first option, we'll build a bookcase into the wall at the south end of the bathroom.
If we go with this option, we're going to have to add a three- or four-piece bathroom in between the two main floor bedrooms (which is entirely feasible), likely opening up into both bedrooms (pocket door into master, 28" standard door into guest). This option begets further complications because the upstairs bedroom would also have to have access to a full bathroom, without having to traipse through either the planned upstairs master bedroom (which will likely have its own ensuite) or one of the downstairs bedrooms, necessitating the addition of yet another bathroom--not, however, that there isn't room to do so. We won't have to decide what we're doing upstairs for a while, as we'll make sure that, whatever we do, we'll have easy access to both a plumbing stack and hot/cold water. It's the main floor that we're going to have to deal with in the next several weeks, once the basement beam and bathroom have been completed.
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You could put a powder room running east to west at the far end of the kitchen with the door opeining onto the mudroom so the entrance isn't in the kitchen.
Posted by: IH8SNOW at February 28, 2006 10:27 AM