Kitchen redesign ideas for the kitchen (pics included)

[mistikempire]

Hello all!
Please may i get some of your valuable ideas.

This is the kitchen floor, which as you can see from the pics, has an annoying step!

I want to completely get rid of that step by lowering the floor in the kitchen, only issue is...it will be a long process as the floor under the tiles is concrete.

Another issue is the slightly higher floor is level with the garden floor. So not sure what to do.


Anywho
The main question guys is what do you reckon is the best design for a brand new kitchen?

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

You can't lower the floor, it would then be below the damp proof course and the outside ground so would be damp or could even flood during very wet weather.

You could raise the floor in the dining area, but of course then you'd need a step into this room.

Is there also a step into the study?

It looks like there's an inspection chamber lid by the study door. Another reason you can't lower the floor.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

You could raise the floor of the entire house if you really fancy an adventure. A massive job, but you'd end up with one floor level and an insulated floor.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

You can't lower the floor, it would then be below the damp proof course and the outside ground so would be damp or could even flood during very wet weather.

Eh? The floor level can be beneath the wall dpc provided damp cannot penetrate to the inside, it just needs to be detailed/built correctly. Whether that is practical or not is another question, if it did prove impracticable to do so it might be possible to have the step shifted to underneath the kitchen units and have a step up for the patio door.

 

[mistikempire]

You can't lower the floor, it would then be below the damp proof course and the outside ground so would be damp or could even flood during very wet weather.

You could raise the floor in the dining area, but of course then you'd need a step into this room.

Is there also a step into the study?

It looks like there's an inspection chamber lid by the study door. Another reason you can't lower the floor.

Their is a step down into the study room.
The chamber which is an access for the pipe for the downstairs bathroom, so potentially could be moved outside?

 

[mistikempire]

You could raise the floor of the entire house if you really fancy an adventure. A massive job, but you'd end up with one floor level and an insulated floor.

As much an of adventure that is, i am afraid it would be abit too much.

Another issue is the height ceiling of the living room is not that great, so increasing floor height would make it worse.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Eh? The floor level can be beneath the wall dpc provided damp cannot penetrate to the inside, it just needs to be detailed/built correctly. Whether that is practical or not is another question, if it did prove impracticable to do so it might be possible to have the step shifted to underneath the kitchen units and have a step up for the patio door.

Challenging the laws of physics normally doesn't work out well. Why is that step there? I doubt that the builder did it for fun or just to be annoying.

Start by looking in the inspection chamber, chances are the pipes aren't far below it.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Challenging the laws of physics normally doesn't work out well.

Hmm, I wonder if anyone has ever successfully built a floor lower down than the ground. I guess not.

 

[Notch7]

So your lean to extension which includes the kitchen and study have a raised floor -it looks like the rear extension is 3.0m projection so Im guessing it was done under permitted development, so a reasonably recent addition

So the extension floor was raised.........why? -you really need to find out what the reason was. It could have been a very simple reason like the builder buggered up his calcs and had to raise the floor to pass building regs............or theres a drain or some other feature that forced it to happen

Are there building regs drawing for the extension on the council portal?

 

[Notch7]

Another issue is the slightly higher floor is level with the garden floor. So not sure what to do

not impossible to get over -could you add an eternal pic fo across the whole width of the house to get an idea of levels

If you left the doors where they are you would just be left with a bit of step to the outside -and internally you just need to get the damp detailing correct

 

[mistikempire]

not impossible to get over -could you add an eternal pic fo across the whole width of the house to get an idea of levels

If you left the doors where they are you would just be left with a bit of step to the outside -and internally you just need to get the damp detailing correct

This sounds possible, i think it will be the Best way to go

 

[noseall]

Eh? The floor level can be beneath the wall dpc provided damp cannot penetrate to the inside, it just needs to be detailed/built correctly.

I fairness to IWB, it is more contentious lowering a floor below DPC than raising it above.

This is the kitchen floor, which as you can see from the pics, has an annoying step!

I'm always wary when I see something like that. It may just be the geography of the curtilage, i.e. the property levels sneak upwards, as you move towards the rear. Or it cold be more sinister as Freddie has pointed out, i.e. shallow drains etc.

I wouldn't be making any promises if I were looking at that job.

 

[blup]

Hello all!
Please may i get some of your valuable ideas.

This is the kitchen floor, which as you can see from the pics, has an annoying step!

I want to completely get rid of that step by lowering the floor in the kitchen, only issue is...it will be a long process as the floor under the tiles is concrete.

Another issue is the slightly higher floor is level with the garden floor. So not sure what to do.


Anywho
The main question guys is what do you reckon is the best design for a brand new kitchen?

A flat floor is ideal but you need the time and patience to dig out what's there and to check for services, and be prepared to reduce the external ground level. So a lot more work and uncertainty for a builder, unless you can identify the potential extras first first, which will involve shifting a lot of material and taking out use of the kitchen, or part of it, for some time, with the possibility of expensive service relocation..

 

[mistikempire]

A flat floor is ideal but you need the time and patience to dig out what's there and to check for services, and be prepared to reduce the external ground level. So a lot more work and uncertainty for a builder, unless you can identify the potential extras first first, which will involve shifting a lot of material and taking out use of the kitchen, or part of it, for some time, with the possibility of expensive service relocation..

İ think I will go ahead with trying to lower it, as it will bug me.
İt would be the perfect time before i install the new kitchen.