House Plans: Old and New

Sorry to anyone checking in for news and updates to find I haven't updated the blog in weeks.  It's been a bit busy but now that I've started maternity leave (and baby hasn't come yet), I can do a bit of catch up!

As you can imagine, lots has happened at the house which hopefully I'll update over the next few posts (well, depending on baby's arrival).  Things are really coming together and we can really see how the rooms are laid out.  After talking to my sister, she asked me to post some pics of the layout so she could actually visualise what walls were where and what we've changed.

So the original house plan looked like this.  As you can see there are a lot of pokey little rooms and some pretty thick walls in the original house layout.

This whole area is converted to living space and there is a new build extension for the utility and bedrooms that goes out off the hall at the top of the picture.  The new plans essentially follow as below with a few changes to exact position & length of the remaining walls:

As I said before, there won't be an island as the kitchen is a bit too narrow and the dining room table will be positioned in the other direction to fill the space a bit more. Knocking down the centre wall and making the larger opening was such a good idea.  Walking around the space it really feels so much more spacious but as there are some internal walls, it still has a cozy feel to it.  We're really excited about how it's coming out!