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Design help with open concept for backsplit house

We are creating an open concept living room, dining room, kitchen, and entryway. Currently, we have a gallery kitchen, and that will be removed. I wanted to get some other opinions on where these items should go with our floor plan. It must incorporate hockey storage for husband and son, figure skating for my daughter unless I want that in the living room floor. We need the largest kitchen we can get without eliminating the other rooms in the open concept plan. Does wall to wall cupboards look bad for storage? Windows near the side door and stairway is only 20 inches from floor. The railing is open concept to playroom. Anyone renovated a backsplit that had these challenges, and what did you do? Storage is our main focus without making it cluttered. Any help please. I have attached a quick measurements and layout I drew as well as images I like. Kitchen island would be preferred. Would live a hot chocolate and juice bar.

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  • last year

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    last year

    That is not a floor plan in any way. You need a good interior designer and an architect . You cannot just eliminate walls with no understanding of the purpose for them. Do you have gaarge ? Myadvice sports stuff stored there if a small home. A to scale floor plan as the home is now is where you start do it on graph paper to make it easier . Show every window, doorways where those lead and every measurement clearly marked .every wall right now . Post that here in jpeg format in a comment . The explain what you have had seen by a structural engineer to tell ylou what wall can be removed and how those will be handled . You have put the cart way before the horse so stop now before the house falls down I have no idea what those pics are showing since I have no idea what your home looks like now .

  • last year

    Thank you Patricia. We do not have any interior designer or architect. We will get a structural engineer to tell us about removing walls. We have had one already tells us that the walls are not load bearing. I really just want people's opinions on where they would put everything and approx sizes. I have ideas, but didn't want to share them to skew others opinions. We have a garage, but it is not heated so that is not an option so storage must be in the house. Again thank you.

  • last year

    It’s hard to tell how you enter the plan (where is said garage)? If there are bathrooms above this area there is surely plumbing that will create columns in the space…sorry, but best to post your existing plan (with all of the existing walls)…and a true knowledge of what can and can not come down. You have listed that a kitchen, dining, living and mudroom need to be here. It will be super tight so starting with an accurate floor plan is essential.

  • last year

    It’s a bit hard to tell what’s going on in your plan. Can you find a realtor layout from when you bought it and then highlight the areas you want changed? I can really tell where things currently are or where they should go because I don’t know where the front or back is or what’s nearby. Generally it costs more to completely change plumbing so it’s good to see if a plan can be made that considers where things currently are.

  • PRO
    last year
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    We need info and BTW our kids sports stuff was stored in an unheated garage attached to the house . We had no space ina tiny house they brought it in to warm up before taking it to the site . This floor plan is useless we do not have any info as to what is where now . Where is the plumbing it there another floor or just this main and a basement . Waht is in the basement where are the ebathrooms ???? just not enough info to be able to help. Do you have huge beams across the space that IMO would be the only way you can remove all the walls if the house was built like that

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