Old house kitchen remodel layout help!
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sheloveslayouts
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Help with kitchen layout for 140 year old home. Please!
Comments (7)I would not put the dishwasher between the sink and range. It would work better on the opposite side of the sink. If someone is cooking and using pots/pans to the right of the range, someone else could be cleaning up at the sink with the dishwasher to the right of the sink. It's our new set up and I honestly love it. Hubby can load/unload the dishwasher while I cook without tripping over each other. Pictures are here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/4212346/reveal-before-and-after-nyc-kitchen-basically-done#19305396 I recommend a pocket door for the pantry. Otherwise, it would be tight for someone trying to enter the pantry while someone else is opening the frig. I thought about a prep sink too, but it wasn't an option for us due to plumbing limitations. I find that we use the island more for serving meals than for prep. The only time I use the island for "prep" is when serving meals from take out containers. lol If you take out the prep sink, you can add more seating on the island if you install an overhang....See MoreLayout help! 200 y/o house Kitchen remodel
Comments (11)It sounds like you are caught in the trend of the day-open concept. But tearing out walls just to tear out walls is not well thought out. Just the basics- kitchen ceiling and hall ceiling don’t match. The baseboard heat won’t have a wall. What you are proposing is very expensive. Visitors through what looks like the front door will be dumped right into your kitchen. I wish, and I say this from the bottom of my heart, you had bought a new house that met your need for open concept. I have a 200 year old house and I base everything we do to honor the house and the man who built it. Yes, we have central air, electricity, plumbing and a newly remodeled kitchen. But I did not block up the 200 year old cooking fireplace with the original crane, I didn’t change out a door for a window and a longer run of cabinets, I didn’t rip down the original plastered ceiling to vault the space. I want to respect the families who lived here by being a caretaker, not a demo man. The value of separation in a household has been demonstrated during this quarantine. DH can watch the whole series of Star Trek ( please just shoot me!) in the library while I work on my genealogy project and watch murder mysteries in the back parlor. When he is cooking (using every pot and pan we own), I can sit in relative quiet in the library and read until dinner is ready....See MoreTiny old house. Need help with kitchen layout!
Comments (18)You wouldn't need to remove the whole wall--just widen the cased opening with a new header above (which is why I left the remnant of the wall--to support the header and provide space for a shallow pantry cab). Also, behind the exterior door, you wouldn't need to open the wall--I suggested using the stud bays to add storage, but you have space for a tall shallow cabinet. I realize your plan might not be exact, but you show no filler between the fridge and the wall to the right, which means the fridge door will not open fully, and maybe not even to 90 degrees, in order to pull out the crispers. You can check the specs on your model, to make sure. You probably don't have that issue now, since it looks as if the fridge door opens away from the wall, in its current orientation. To the right of the range, you could use a cabinet which opens to the side, and then extend the countertop to the edge of the door frame, but you probably wouldn't be able to case it. I wonder if you could use the existing chimney to vent the range on that wall?...See MoreHELP! Need design advice on kitchen/house layout remodel!
Comments (15)Good question...That space is actually not that big in real life. We'll likely put the 2 chairs with a table in between that we have in the sunroom now. We may end up with a moveable island in the "butler's pantry" -- agree, it's more of an extended kitchen space. But we can reuse the same cabinets so it will be low cost and extra storage since we'll have less in the main kitchen area. Moving the bathroom was deemed to be more than $10k, and creates a lot more complexity in the project. I am intrigued by that idea, but I think that will actually make the house feel smaller since that will create more of a closed off hallway from our utility room....See Morej s
5 years agoThis is strictly the shape measurements. I don’t have this for the proposed layout but hopefully this helps. The wall you can’t see in the 3D is blank - it’s a traveling space between two doorways.
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5 years agoI would consider eliminating the eat in area and using the dining room as suggested above. Also you could run counter across the window. Like this
And here’s a Houzz article on the topic: [https://www.houzz.com/magazine/great-solutions-for-low-kitchen-windowsills-stsetivw-vs~25381595[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/great-solutions-for-low-kitchen-windowsills-stsetivw-vs~25381595)j s
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoWhich way is the view you want to capture? Through the proposed dinette?
j s
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jhmarie
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoA good friend of mine had a foursquare are redid her kitchen. Her floor plan is not the same - but she also wanted to keep the character of her home. She does have a large doorway between dining room and kitchen. The wall is not gone, but the two rooms flow into each other.
Her cabinetry on the left hand wall is shortened in depth - not quiet as deep as regular lower cabinets and there are no appliances on that wall. I don't have any great ideas, but a large opening between the dining and kitchen would not mean taking a wall down but would allow the dining room to be used for all eating and the entire remodel space for a kitchen. You could consider the sink under the higher window and the range between windows as long as they are not too close together - you need space between to prep and work.
If you want to go with a vintage look to flow with the rest of the home, you could have a sink base "cabinet" made to support an apron front sink and no back that could go in front of the low window It would have a curtain instead of doors, or possibly doors with radiator vent panels. I don't know if that is possible with the radiator - want to be safe. I would consider a "short apron" Kohler Whitehaven to get a more vintage look. The curtain allows access to the lower part of the window for cleaning.
You could put the sink between the windows and do a curtained counter over the low window. Many have mentioned they like looking out of the window while they prep more than while they wash up.
Curtained sink base:
Radiator cover doors:
j s
5 years agoWe’d love to open the funny room with a frame (the space between our living and dining has one with folding original French doors) but we have a unique design challenge connected to the kitchen. Because our home is a foursquare with the “front” entrance actually in the middle of the side of the building, our front door and a narrow entryway are right next to the kitchen, creating two doorways into the separate rooms. If we opened the kitchen, the wall against the entryway would be floating in the middle or we would have two incredibly awkward doors. See my artistic rendering below - hopefully that helps make sense of the layout.
j s
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5 years agoI did this rough drawing a few months ago. It is not to scale. :) Our traditional foursquare porch fronts onto a busy road and the middle access door was changed to a front entryway, either as an edit to the original plan or later. Kitchen and laundry windows are circled in second photo.
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