How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

And @chrisbmx116 is it wipeable?

If you want something more wipeable or robust in black there's also Richlite. Is super nice like Valchromat but also quite spendy. With the Valchromat you just need to apply some Osmo.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this feels like full cosplay, I have no idea what I’m doing, nor can I believe that it’s all happening.

got jizz stains everywhere.
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can’t speak to stains, can do and live stream for you

Will you be charging subscriptions for your jizzing live stream. Is this an only fans?

Will start a thread for it in current projects.

Project kitchen is happening, I've done most of what I want to do in the rest of the house so time to tackle that room. I'll be doing the planning and supplying of material but getting a builder to manage trades and do the work.

Any thoughts on the below plans? The open shelving on the island will be replaced with doors apart from one unit. My wife liked the idea of open but it'll be too much upkeep and our son will be grabbing it all and throwing it on the floor.

All services are staying in the same place to reduce cost. Tall unit by the window is the boiler. Washer dryer unfortunately will have to stay in the kitchen I think as now we've redone the bathroom I'd struggle to bring a feed and waste pipe from under the floor to the understairs cupboard.

Designs are by Wren but kitchen units will be DIYKitchens (Norton in bespoke Bancha FB colour)

If you like the open cupboards for the sake of about 18 months of child management I'd go with them. Kids grow up and are full time management anyway. (We had open storage in the lounge when ours were young)

Where is the dining table going? You have two very large open spaces, what are the plans for them as it seems a waste to let some of that space be left.

Good question sorry, dinning table goes in red bit. Then the other bit in front of the French doors is currently play station but will then be replaced by a small sofa or custom storage bench seating and small coffee table.

One thing I'm thinking about is doing away with the double oven and replacing with a range cooker that makes it feel less full of tall cupboards and more airy maybe

Attaching current space pictures as well, excuse the mess

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I think eating by the big doors with a garden view would be nicer?

Also line that sink up with the window.

Would it add that much to move the sink to where the cooker is, move the cooker along and then have one long kitchen, maybe with a half island in the back part?

Little actual real fire?

Oh make the boiler cupboard to the ceiling like the others and get that oven in the centre of the gap.

Could prob run an open shelf across that space too.

I like the idea of getting rid or high double oven although I imagine they are practical.

Gap from oven/hob side back to island looks pretty small. Also left hand side of hob worktop looks too narrow to be useful.

Strangely Richlite started to be used on guitar fretboards instead of rosewood recently, and guitar snobs say silly things like "the upper-mids aren't as sparkly" and dismiss it.

Are you happy with your dry food storage, tableware and cookware locations?

Where's your bin and recycling?

I'd move the hob to bisect that worktop if the island is your prep space. That gives pan resting areas either side

Yeah to be brutal that’s a kitchen fitted to a room not a room with a kitchen fitted.

@chrisbmx116 Yes would be nice but then we wouldn't have much use for the big space in the middle room. Boiler cupboard will be to ceiling, they just can't show that in mockups because it's not a unit you'd make it with filler panels and a tall door cut at the top. I was thinking about lining the sink in the middle of the window but with the bit that's under the worktop we would then need to move the dishwasher along etc ... Regarding your last comment I think that's true, it's an Ikea kitchen put in the house with cheapest doors to make it look ok before selling and to be fair it's been more than fine since we've moved in and worked through the rest of the house

@c.h.e Not sure, doable from my understanding of it. Where would you then have the fridge if hob takes that space? (If I understand you well)

@Grumpy_Git Yes, we've lived with this setup for 3 and bit years and most things are well thought out in terms of location. Big jobs are removing the wall and big cupboard unit by door as both block a huge amount of light. Where would you move the hob to? Prep is the island correct and toaster would be moving to pantry.

Downstairs there's a utility-but not actually utilitarian room with a side room currently housing a much used washing machine, a never used toilet and sink and storing a load of tools.

Access is through the kitchen at the very back end of a terraced house. Built into a hill so just one window, frosted which looks into the side return, no windows in the utility bit, then above it all a bit of terraced decking accessed from stairs in the side return / french windows in the back room upstairs.

Had been planning on making the utility room (currently storing sheets of ply, tools and cat litter bags) into a pure laundry/cleaning room - washer/tumble dryer, nice stone work surface, built in cupboards for storing cleaning products/vaccuum/mop etc. Maybe even another sink but had imagined just a large flat wipeable surface for folding clothes/organising stuff. Then turning the washing machine/toilet bit into a full on wet room. It's not a terrible size already but we could probably make it wider/sort the layout better and tank it off, shower, toilet, sink.

We only have one bathroom in the house as it stands with a bath and a shower thing fitted inside it.

A loft conversion seems out of reach at the moment so no chance of an en-suite up there.

But getting to it through the kitchen... Hive mind? Acceptable to have a downstairs wet room? We had one at a flat we rented in Brighton years ago and I didn't love it but it was a poorly designed, steamy, cramped nightmare with no extraction and cold bits of metal jabbing at you from every angle. This is almost as big as our actual bathroom. Could have a nice shower with all the clobber hidden away, small sink/toilet in the other half of the room... Yay or nay?

Really not easy, and I always forget that you guys wash where you cook.
Freezer would be Nr 12. Oven better under hob/range seems a given, as others have said there's not much space either side of hob with fancy eye level oven. That stuff is for people with loads of space.

Get a slanted cooker extractor not a level one.

I made a very good sketch, probably a stupid idea, have the island one if those fancy things that are also a table. Maybe shit as no space where I put the bench, but would create loads of space where the light is. Then you could have shelving in front of boiler/24.
Right now your design feels like it's the same but for one wall less.

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I was actually talking about the proposed! Youre going to get 100 opinions on here, but I actually really like your current set up separation of space wise. I’d not knock through and instead focus on higher quality bespoke solutions for your current spaces.

100%. And include a sauna. Big enough for 4.

Ngl I think currently it looks like a nice space.

Prob totally wrong, but I'm skeptical that knocking through will add loads more light. Right now there's a decent door and through window

Imo having a lighter continuous floor with a lighter rug would do it. Plus better lighting.

+1. Love this space already, defo wouldn’t knock it through.

Better shaped table, more lights, maybe clean up and put doors on storage, keeping it traditional and then new kitchen, maybe peninsula rather then island although island is more traditional which looks in keeping with plan.

This was part of the inspiration, similar house nearby (with lots of differences of course)

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