A Preview Of What My New Kitchen Might Look Like

I took a bit of little bit of time yesterday morning to mess around with a kitchen structure on the IKEA kitchen planner based mostly on the brand new thought of shifting our kitchen to the breakfast room space. Should you missed that plan, you may return one publish and skim in regards to the decision-making course of and why I’ve chosen to do issues that method.

However in case you don’t need the entire explanations and also you simply wish to see the ground plan, that is it…

In order you may see, the brand new kitchen will probably be within the house that’s now the breakfast room and pantry. Will probably be open to the eating room with a giant cased opening. That huge cased opening is already there, however proper now it’s between the kitchen and the breakfast room with a peninsula separating the 2 rooms. At present, it appears like this…

The plan is to maneuver the kitchen sink to the entrance window wall of the breakfast room/sitting room and shut up the door from the breakfast room to my studio. After which this wall that separates the sitting room from the pantry will probably be eliminated. I constructed that wall myself, and it’s nothing however 2×4’s and drywall. There’s nothing structural about that wall (i.e., it’s not load-bearing), and there’s nothing within the wall like electrical or water. So taking that out will probably be straightforward peasy.

My mother and I each laughed about the truth that eradicating that wall mainly takes me proper again to how this room was initially once we purchased this home. It was only one huge, open room with two home windows on the again wall. And there was a door on the left, which I closed up, and which will probably be added again in for the brand new design. 😀

I do know that the thought of undoing and redoing issues actually bothers some folks, however I’m the home-owner, and I’m not bothered within the least by this. These rooms have served us very nicely whereas we had them. Matt’s sitting room has been excellent for him to have, and I’ve gotten a ton of use out of the pantry. However I’m okay with shifting on to a extra environment friendly association that can serve us even higher. These rooms have been enjoyable to work on, nice to reside in, and the following ones will probably be, too.

Anyway, with all of that mentioned, I needed to mess around with the IKEA kitchen planner simply to get an thought of what a kitchen would possibly appear to be on this space. And keep in mind that the studio lavatory will probably be become a walk-through pantry, so that can give me extra cupboard space. However for now, I simply needed to deal with this room, which is 21 toes lengthy and 12′ 3″ large.

I didn’t take the time but to decided the precise association of drawers and issues like that. For now, I simply used cupboards with all drawers for the lowers, and I didn’t contemplate which objects I’d retailer the place. So a few of these cupboards will definitely be swapped out for different varieties of cupboards. However I simply needed to get a common really feel for what a kitchen would appear to be in that room, and right here’s what I got here up with as a leaping off level.

Beginning on the entrance wall, I put the sink centered on the home windows. I selected to place the sink right here as an alternative of the again wall of this room as a result of the again wall has the sloped ceiling. The ceiling within the present pantry slopes from eight toes to seven toes on the again wall. I’m certain that may very well be modified, however I don’t know that it could be value the fee. And I don’t actually care if my sink appears out to the entrance yard or the again yard, simply as long as the sink is beneath home windows. That’s my solely requirement. It’s what I’ve envisioned ever since I began speaking about and planning a brand new kitchen, so it’s a non-negotiable merchandise.

So right here’s the sink beneath the entrance home windows with the cased opening into the eating room (i.e., the present kitchen) to the appropriate.

The “digital camera” view of this display shot makes the proportions look method off, however that is the 21-foot wall. The present doorway from the breakfast room into my studio is about the place these cupboards are between the fridge and vary. So that may be closed up and a doorway could be added in direction of the again of the room (to the left of the fridge) that goes into what’s now the studio lavatory, however will probably be a walk-through pantry that results in the again doorways of the studio. Once more, attempt to not be confused by this attitude. The view appears actually stretched out from the foreground to the fridge wall. That distance from foreground to the fridge/vary wall is actually solely 12′ 3″ large, whereas the precise fridge/vary wall is 21 toes lengthy. I don’t know why the angle and proportions look so distorted.

And right here’s a have a look at the again nook with the doorway to the walk-through pantry and a portion of the again wall. Once more, the again wall of the kitchen is the place the present pantry. I simply put wall-to-wall decrease cupboards and as many higher cupboards as I may match on that wall.

Right here’s a straight-on view of the again wall the place the present pantry is. The smaller cased opening on the left goes to the brand new household room, which makes this again wall of countertop an ideal place for buffet-style serving when we’ve got folks over.

After which that is the wall with the large cased opening to the eating room on the left and the smaller cased opening to the household room on the appropriate.

In order that’s a enjoyable first look of what a kitchen would possibly appear to be in that house. I’m enjoying round with the thought of including an island, however I haven’t settled on that but. In actual fact, none of that is set in stone. This was only a enjoyable train to get the ball rolling and to assist me begin envisioning this room as a kitchen, and to think about the chances.

There are nonetheless plenty of inquiries to reply, similar to:

• I’d like a beverage fridge and a small 15-inch built-in nugget ice machine, so the place can these objects go?
• Will I maintain my stand-alone freezer? And if that’s the case, the place will it go? Is there sufficient room within the walk-through pantry? (I believe there may be.)
• Is the fee affordable to boost the roof on the again facet of the room in order that the complete room has an eight-foot ceiling with no slope on the again?
• If it doesn’t break the financial institution to boost the roof on the again facet, am I actually as detached as I believe I’m to which finish my kitchen sink goes on? (I genuinely don’t know the reply to this query.)
• If I add an island, how huge wouldn’t it be? If the vary is centered in on the large cased opening (which my mind tells me it needs to be as a result of…symmetry), then there’s no approach to have an island centered with the vary. Does the vary actually have to be centered within the cased opening? Would it not drive me batty if it weren’t centered? And might an island be off heart with the centered vary and never drive me loopy? I don’t know that anybody can reply these questions besides me, but when I may see footage of off-center islands and see if it’s the equal to nails on a chalkboard for my symmetry-obsessed mind, that may assist immensely. So in case you come throughout footage of kitchen with islands which are off heart with the vary wall (and the place the vary wall is the focus of the kitchen), that may be so useful!

So I’ve these and possibly many extra inquiries to reply earlier than something is about in stone. However it certain is enjoyable to start out eager about, dreaming about, and planning this! And naturally, I’ll share each element of each step alongside the best way. 😀

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.