I'm not sure where is the right place to ask this tbh, so I thought I'd ask here! We're moving house in about 4 weeks to our first home that we'll have owned, and just costing up a few possible renovation options.
The measurements in this sketchup are all wrong, but the basic layout is correct, just to get the idea.
The layout of the downstairs as we're buying it is like this (excluding a few other rooms I couldn't be bothered to add in to Sketchup!):
First thing we'd quite like to do is to knock through a structural wall between the kitchen and dining area, allowing our whole living area to be much more open plan. We'd then build a smaller wall part of the way across a bit further in, to allow a bigger kitchen area.
As I said, the dimensions are wrong, I just don't have them to hand, the kitchen isn't quite that long and thin. Anyway, the next thing we want is to have space for our L-shape sofa, which doesn't fit where the living space doorway currently is, so we'd have to block it up, make good, and then knock through another one further down the wall.
Basically, like this:
Once that's done we could put in some furniture. This is the current planned layout. Opposite the sofa on the long wall will be a fireplace. An electric PJ screen will come down in front of the window (with blackout curtains/blind on the window), and the the 5.1 (?/7.1 - as yet undecided) to fit around the PJ screen. TV maybe above the fireplace, maybe alongside between fireplace and PJ screen, maybe in front of window and behind electric screen - again undecided at the moment. Eventual basic layout will be something like this:
Again, sorry for the very poor sketchup skills, but does anyone have any idea how much we're looking at for that sort of building work? The kitchen wall is, unfortunately, structural, so would need to be heavily supported, but preferably with the minimum of intrusion into the room.
When I actually get round to doing this properly I'll start a new thread on here with the progress. By that time we'll have more of a proper plan and I'll have learnt to use sketchup properly, but ideas of cost are, unfortunately, always the starting point!
Thanks guys!
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