Hi ehwee.

Need your second opinion and comment, currently just exploring options for the kitchen layout arrangement. Any feedback or suggestion to improve this?

Note;

There is a drop between dry and wet kitchen.
Not sure if the kitchen size permit for kitchen island.
End lot unit with 10ft land to the side.

The drawing I just re-draw from SPA documents, so the dimension might not be 100% accurate but should be good enough for now.

Current draft.

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Original floor plan :

hi ehwee, do u know below image roughly uses which color tone and wattage? I bought 1 10W spotlight and 1 12W downlight and it's quite dim.

i assume it's cool white 1x 7W spotlight and 1x 18W downlight?



minute 7:50 and 9:57

This post has been edited by kenloh7: Jul 18 2021, 01:25 PM

Interesting! If you wish to spend minimum cost and don't need much additional storage cabinets, this is one option I can suggest you.

Adding a 3 tiers design element from bottom to top as below:

- concealed light trough, help to light up further the area since the double ceiling height downlights might not enough the brighten up the area
- additional row of storaga or just black color gymsum board box up, to make the cabinet design look propotional and completed
- reflective color glass or mirror panellings, to create interesting "virtual space extension" to make the area appear wider and also help to reflect the lights into the area.

Hope this help!





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No sure the reason you only got 1 10W spotlight and 1 12W downlight for the bathroom, just 2 lights will not enough to light up the bathroom.

your earlier intention to have 2x 12W downlight ( main light to light up the area), and 1x 10W spotlight ( light up wc area ) is more appropriate arrangement.

Cheers!

Hi. Would like to know regarding flooring as per photo. For this kind of floor, how to achieve the concrete look? Is it with polishing or epoxy?

This is either honed or natural finish.

honed finish is a smooth and matted finish look.

while natural finish is basically the natural stone look without any treatment.

You can also check with the stone supplier, as sometime, different supplier called them different name, hope this help!

If you are not doing any extension, then you will need to get rig of 1 of the 2 wall cabinets in order to fit in a island there as you can see in this diagram.

Cheers!

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At the moment no, no extension yet..trying to properly complete inside ID first.

3m space able to fit in cabinet on one side and small island? gap between island and cabinet normally you suggest what size? and if possible dimension of the island too.

Thanks in advance.

Sorry, I thought I have attach the diagram for you just now. Here you go, this is the layout with dimension I suggest, hope this help !




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Hi bro, hopefully you can shine me some light on my current issue. The walkway from dry to wet kitchen is separated by swing door from the developer but somehow i feel swing door is not practical and dangerous for the people coming out from wet kitchen. I plan to replace it with a single piece sliding door and hack the wall on the left and right side of the existing swing door to maximize the 1.5m width. For the fix panel sliding door, i will use kitchen cabinet end panel as cover up...

Is this idea good enough? Or do you have a better idea? not planning to hack the bathroom and utility room... Appreciate your opinion... Thanks..

Hi Ehwee & everyone,

Need your kind advise on:-
1. Any Kitchen Cabinet design suitable as floor plan show as kitchen &
2. Sufficient space to build one Island + Cabinet at Dining area as Dry Kitchen with small round dining table near the sliding door as 2nd floor plan.
Thank you in advance for your feedback, advise and comment.

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Is it worth to leave a area beside the wet kitchen for the cloth drying purpose?

I have 20ftx10ft area to be extended at the back side.
Thinking of to extend it as wet kitchen (2/3) and cloth drying area (1/3).
Or better fully extend as wet kitchen?

Hi sorry for late reply, I am busy completing my design drawings lately.

Yes for sure, you can demolish the existing wall and door that separate the kitchens and replacing it with new glass sliding door.

I suggest you can consider doing a full height storage cabinet right at the middle of the sliding door so you can close the sliding door tightly to keep out of cooking smoke from wet kitchen. This will looks nice and wider too while keep the sliding door opened to one side.




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yes why not, it depend on how is your back yard layout, window types, structural element positions of columns and beams and also the roof design ultimately.

can consider a Retractable Clothes hanger in the dry area if you plan to have cloth drying area next to wet kitchen. This way you can can the dry area at the same time as storage area or laundry area.

Hi thanks for the idea!! Do u mean when closing the sliding door, it will rest on the full height storage cabinet? Or it is it will slide in between two full height cabinet and end up resting on the wall?

I wanted to ask how to design a courtyard behind the house with external kitchen outside of the house. Also dining area on the outside as well. Would like to have some open space concept with outdoor living

since your kitchen entry opening is 900mm and the cabinet is 600mm depth, you need to have 2 nos of 450mm slidiing door then only can slide them in between and flash to the 2 full height cabinet.

I will said make the sliding door to slide and rest on the full height cabinet is a better choice, can ask contractor doing a 1 inch recessed vertical gap on the full height cabinet so the sliding door can closed gapless onto the cabinet.

This post has been edited by ehwee: Mar 9 2022, 06:28 PM