Hi Hi - isit okay to get your idea and opinion on this ?
Kitchen is really tiny  6.5 ft wide and 7ft length.
The water sink inlet is at the wall under the window

Instead of following the developers proposed Galley kitchen .
Do you think my "idea"  is workable ? or will it just look weird and more dark and claustrophobic.

few concern is the sink facing towards the living room will cause a lot of splashing out
And would this idea possibly give more storage space .  Thanks in advance.

Hi Ehwee,

Thanks for doing this and really appreciate your advice on this.

I plan to knock down the wall (circled in red) to expand dry kitchen and dinning area. My wife loves to bake so an central island is a must. Can you suggest a layout after breaking the wall?

Another question is, will you recommend adding a partition between my living and dining area? As you can see, when I open my main door I can see everything is a straight line. 

Hi Ehwee,

I am planning to renovate my old house of more than 30 years. I am doing the space planning myself because my budget is a bit tight. My house is an intermediate double storey house and its measurement is 22 x 75 feet. I wish to extend the back of house, which include the kitchen and study room on the ground floor and 2 bedrooms on the first floor.

My ground floor layout is a bit tricky. The line where you could see separating the living hall and the dining is actually elevated 40 cm above the living. And this is extended up to the kitchen/wc/study area. The yard area is the same level with the living.

I have 2 options in my mind but I have some concern on the budget. Option 1 is to hack the wall of kitchen and study to fully extend to the back, while the wc remained as it is. I shall move the dining table into my extended kitchen. So that I have more space for living room. Since I am on tight budget, I do not wish to install a cooking hood yet, I am thinking 2 units of ventilation fan may do the trick. Do you think is sufficient or will it get greasy? Also, the extended area will have to be elevated 40cm above. This option, my kitchen and dining will look more spacious I presume.

Option 2 is to hack only the wall of study, while the wall of kitchen and wc remained. This option I can have separated dry and wet kitchen. And I am thinking since the kitchen wall shall remain, the wet kitchen floor area will not need to be elevated 40 cm above to match my dry kitchen (at the same time I also prefer to have higher ceiling for my wet kitchen). As for my study room, do you recommend to elevate the extended area 40 cm to match the rest of the floor in the study or do you think is ok to maintain the floor level as it is?

Also, cost wise, do you think option 2 will cost less? or they are more or less the same cost?

Seems like you bought a unit in Parque Residence. I have a unit there and also having a headache on how best to design my kitchen. Wouldn't having the hood and hob against the wall be a problem as there is the window to the yard there?

Hi ehwee, thank you for your generous sharing. Enjoyed going through this thread.

Do you have any suggestion on what colour should the concrete (L) tabletop and kitchen cabinet doors be to match with this yellowish wall and floor tiles?
Prefer a neutral colour, a safe option.

Yes, it is good idea to take away the existing to extend the kitchen with island.

Here is what you can have.

As for dining divider, it's depend on your preference actually, if you concern on fungshui, then a divider is a fine option.

Thank you. I wonder why is there a gap here.

since the existing floor tile is quite a prominent brown colour. I will suggest you keep the kitchen cabinet colour selections to light greyish earth tone with black or dark grey quartz stone top.

The top hang can be either white colour or light timber doors. This will make the kitchen look brighter and more young.

Here is my quick colour combination for you.

Cheers ! 

cost wise it would not be so much different as you still need to extend out the new wall, floor and roof for both options.

So it is depend on how you actually use the kitchen. If your family are heavy cooking then Option 2 might be more suitable. As having a separate wall between wet and dry kitchen will keep out of cooking smoke into dry kitchen.

I will suggest you can make the wet kitchen floor level 2-3 inch lower than the floor level of dry kitchen. this way, it is easier for you the wet wash the wet kitchen floor and clean up the oily floor and wall surface afer cooking sessions.

Hi Hi - isit okay to get your idea and opinion on this ?
Kitchen is really tiny  6.5 ft wide and 7ft length.
The water sink inlet is at the wall under the window

Instead of following the developers proposed Galley kitchen .
Do you think my "idea"  is workable ? or will it just look weird and more dark and claustrophobic.

few concern is the sink facing towards the living room will cause a lot of splashing out
And would this idea possibly give more storage space .  Thanks in advance.

Hi

Thanks again for doing this. My new place has quite small bathrooms. What tile size would you recommend i.e. is 60 x 60 ok? or 60 x 30 better, etc. Personally was thinking 60 x 60 floor with 60 x 30 walls.

Bathroom size around 45 to 47 sq ft in a quite squarish rectangle shape.

45to 47sqft is quick small, the floor can go either 60 x 60 or 60 x 30, just you will need to have 60 x 30 or even smaller wall tile in order to cut and fit in nicely all plumbing and Sanitaryware nicely, it depend on the actual plumbing inlet and outlet positions and also the bathroom shape.

Most importantly, since the bathroom is small, try to limit the color selections to 2 maximum and choose lighter color to make it feel wider.

Hi Ehwee,

Been going through the pages in your thread. It's been really helpful in helping us plan our renovation that is about to come.

Need some comments regarding lighting placement for our unit. Planning to mainly use eyeball lighting (7W 4000k) and T5 lighting in the L-box for our home. Also, we are curious whether to keep all lighting in the house at 4000K or should we have 2 different tones ie 4000K on eyeball lights and 3000K on T5.

I have attached my lighting plan and perspective drawing below for reference and comment.

We also welcome any other comments regarding plaster ceiling design, layout and any other general design of the house. Pardon my take on the sketchup drawing as I am still learning how to use it.

 Perspective_Drawing.pdf ( 1.97mb ) Number of downloads: 59

This unit can make it as open kitchen + 1 working space, 1 living, 1 dining + existing bedroom?