1970's Outdated Kitchen remodel-layout ideas.
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Comments (29)If you are set on this design, I would move the laundry door to the kitchen so that wall does not get chopped up looking from the kitchen. You also want to push out the door to be flush with the frig and oven. This will make the inside of the laundry room a bit odd but you want the esthetics from the kitchen not from the laundry room. I would play with the placement of the door into the laundry room. Bottom left of the kitchen may work where there is already an odd jog in the laundry room. You will lose straight shot out to the back door from the kitchen, however. I would consider island seating such that you are facing out the window while eating if you have east facing window/sliding glass door. I think you have enough room. It is wonderful to eat breakfast while looking out to the morning light! I would rid of some of the uppers and lighten the space a little. The cabinet design is too filled in and heavy, IMHO. In your pictures, there does not seem to be a good way to get from the upper deck to the lower pool. Is that a possibility? You really want to be able to acess the pool and your wonderful backyard from your kitchen. Otherwise, you have to maintain two kitchens in the summer. (been there and done that, and it is a PITA!) I have a house where our upper deck does not connect to the lower level. This is the WORST design about our house! I speak from experience... We don't have enough lot to make it happen being in the city. There are always limitations to the houses we live in....See More1970's Kitchen Reveal: Modern w/ touch of rustic IKEA Sektion Bodbyn
Comments (24)Thank you everyone for your comments. It has been such a journey, but so glad we did it. @practigal I sure did! we had around 30 cabinets total or so. @Karenseb I actually am not sure what was used for lighting or power exactly. The electrician provided them, but they look pretty standard. Here is a picture. Sorry for the poor quality. I am pretty excited. I just ordered a bunch of reclaimed black walnut to wrap the brick wall in and to add some floating shelves to the right of the exterior kitchen door. It looks like this:...See MoreDesigning a kitchen for the first time; original 1970s kitchen
Comments (8)Could you please tell us about you and your family and how your family plans to use the Kitchen? It's just me and my husband. I love to bake bread and use my mixer and bread machines on a weekly basis. I also use my rice cooker all the time. Oh and I recently bought an espresso machine. Could you please tell us more about the space you have to work with? As you can see the current footprint is small. We could lose the closets and the door adjacent to the kitchen but it will require moving the water heat and washer and dryer to another part of the house. We were also thinking that maybe we could keep the water heat where it is (replace it with a tankless water heater) and turn the rest of the closet space into a pantry if that is feasible. Where are you flexible? What can/cannot change? If something cannot change, why? (We might have tips for you that may allow you to change it.) Very flexible! I would love to keep the budget down because the rest of the house needs so much work (we are talking shag carpets in the bathrooms type of work). My main concern is having enough space for prep and baking. And I would love a wall oven/micro combo if at all possible but I'm just not seeing where I could fit it in. The seller had a table in the kitchen which I think would be nice to incorporate if we don't open the room up but I also don't want it to get in the way either. I look forward to learning more about kitchen design from this forum. It's very tricky as I'm discovering! Jen...See MoreIdeas for classic tile in late 1970s remodel
Comments (14)"The architect doesn’t like Jack & Jill bathrooms." I do not care for Jack and Jill bathrooms because of the lack of visual privacy, lack of sound privacy, and lack of physical privacy. Some time in the future when adult guests use the bedrooms the "lacks" will be amplified. If both daughters want there own sink, why not give them their own toilet and shower. An en suite is a very good solution. There may be times when they make sense, but it is usually for a short period of time....See Moresuedonim75
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