The Imagery & Inspiration

Current House

So the house we will be renovating is almost 30 years old and a fairly standard house for the time. The original drawings have been found (albeit they are quite old and have faded) and show the house's front elevation looking like this:

In reality, it looked like this:

The Mockups

The idea, however, is to remodel the front of the house to accommodate stairs being moved internally. Also, the rather old-fashioned looking dormer windows would be replaced with velux-style windows and the roof tiles replaced with something a little less "red". Mock-up sketches have been drawn to help explain the plans to whatever architects we can find to do the work:

This should allow the stairs to swing from the rear of the house into something like this:

The next idea was to try to get a decent master bedroom with en-suite, swing the living space to the rear and have a full-height glass "wall" looking out into the garden, like so:

This would give us a downstairs floor plan which is much more usable than the current floor plan and a kitchen which is integrated with the living space.

The kitchen would be kitted out with no cupboards above the working space (as the kitchen should be large enough to accommodate all necessary storage requirements below the working space. We think it gives us a great space to entertain as well as relax while looking out on to what should be a great decking/patio area in front of a well-manicured lawn!