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Ah of course. I'd forgotten you recently mentioned you were in Edinburgh too!
Agreed that a building warrant is required for most of the adventurous stuff. That's why I'm sticking to a notional replacement of units in-situ :)
Suspect the flat will be as per your memory of your parents' place. See attached a few from the sales brochure (some years ago now).Of course in this photo, the press cupboard (to the left of the window) is covered over with a timber panel, hiding the hot water cylinders and -- for some inexplicable reason -- a bunch of possessions belonging to a previous tenant -- seems they had been in there for a couple of decades... also attached a pic from when it was opened up.
Edit: I took inspiration for my plans from my upstairs neighbour's flat. I also noted that most of the other flats in the building have put the central heating boiler in the press cupboard - or so it seems based on some sleuthing (the vents are visible from the garden).
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I've always quite liked runs of cupboards like this, https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_UrwoBMfA/?igshid=1x2m9v3ulb9do which you could do along that wall? I think 40k kitchen idea would be a pantry cupboard built in to the press and 60cm from the wall so it lined up with the rest of the countertop with the fridge freezer at the other end.
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I'd like to see some photos, the Ikea planner doesn't do it justice!
I think you need a building warrant for something like that, we've just gone through the process of applying to take a wall down and put in an extractor vent. In Edinburgh and in a conservation area. The agent we were assigned was a trainee with, we think with little experience. It would have been less painful to bang my head against the wall until it came down, it was next to impossible to talk to him on the phone, my emails went largely unanswered and unread.
Because so many flats have that same layout you could probably have a look at rightmove and see what other people have done? My parents first flat in Edinburgh was exactly like that!