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Need design help after home flooded!

Hello,


My home was flooded with 5 feet of water on November 15th and I had to gut the basement which was a small suite. I'd like some basic layout advice for 3 rooms - the kitchen, the bathroom and the laundry room.


LAUNDRY ROOM - had a washer and dryer on the back wall with high cabinets all around. I'd like to move the door over so I could fit a small laundry sink and counter in there if possible with some cabinet and a place to hang dry clothes. I had a big chest freezer on the right (14 cub ft) when you first walk in but I'm thinking of getting a smaller square chest freezer instead (5 or 7 cub ft). I'm wondering if I move the door over to the right, if I should move the washer dryer to the left wall instead of the back and have the sink at the back with the chest freezer?


BATHROOM - There was a corner shower insert in the top right corner shower and a small vanity/sink in the opposite corner. The 5.6 foot space was a built in shelf in the bathroom and the 4.8 foot space was a built in shelf in the living room. I'm thinking of getting rid of them if it helps to make a nicer bathroom. There is a large window on the outside wall too.


KITCHEN - This is the big one - huge window on outside wall that is nice for a basement but annoying because takes up cabinet space. I'm thinking of making it smaller. The fridge used to be under the stairs in that 19 sq ft space but I'm hoping to plumb that for a stand up washer and dryer and move the fridge into the kitchen area. No stove required or allowed. I'll just have a convection toaster oven/induction cooktop/microwave. Previously I just had a counter and lower cabinets on the outside wall with the sink but would like to utilize the L-shape more.


Any layout ideas would be very much appreciated. :)


Comments (11)

  • 4 years ago

    I’m having trouble following some of your descriptions. For ex, you want to rearrange the laundry room but also put a washer and dryer in the kitchen?? Can you post an original floor plan with wall measurements and windows marked and a renovation plan? But my first thought is that some of your ideas seem expensive with no return on investment, like making the kitchen window smaller and moving the laundry hookups.

  • 4 years ago

    ok I can see why it was confusing, my apologies. The basement is a suite with the lockoff between the workout room and living room. so the existing laundry is mine - there are no laundry facilities in the suite. so i wanted to add them in kitchen under the stairs where the fridge was. i can try to add the windows. i know the kitchen window is 70x 22 with 32 inches on either side of window leaving very little room for cabinets above counter plus ceilings are low.

  • 4 years ago

    Also my pic had very clear wall measurements but not legible on here, so i will try to fix that.

  • PRO
    4 years ago

    I need to see where all the windows are and IMO basements need all the light they can get so no making windows smaller . Who rents this space since there is only one bedroom my guess is a couple at most so I would not trade aw indow for upper cabinets. I need all the meausrements clearly marked and how do you get to the funcae room from your space since you need access to that all the time but from both spaces

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  • 4 years ago

    Good point about cabinets and furnace room. I've added the window in bathroom and kitchen and where the fixtures and appliances used to be. I guess I could use that space under stairs where the fridge used to be for a pantry also, if I decided to not put a stacking washer dryer there.


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  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    This is how it was set up before with cabinets up high on all 3 walls. I hit my head often on them lol... they were the wrong depth for that room and jutted out too far. I want to get a smaller 5 or 7 ft cubic freezer and have somewhere to hang my clothes because I air dry a lot and would really like a laundry tub/sink. I will most likely be buying top loading washer not front loading even though they look so nice and I love the counter space over...but heard they are a pain.

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  • 4 years ago

    Sorry, I'm not an artist lol... this is where everything used to be. There is also a drywall ledge on outside wall of bathroom and kitchen under the windows, forgot to mention that. So the larger shelf in this bathroom pic behind the door is a built in shelf in bathroom. The smaller one is a built in shelf in the living room which is awkward for furniture placement and I don't need it. I was thinking of using both spaces for more room in the bathroom if I can create a closet in the hall from furnace room space (which there is room for because my old furnace was huge adn the new one will be 1/3 of the size. Or keep the one in the bathroom AND have a linen closet off the hall.


  • 4 years ago

    Bump Please if anyone can help me?


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