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We Have A Door (well, almost…)

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It’s no secret that we love knocking down walls. Last year we took down a wall in our cellar, the wall between our kitchen and dining room and our garden wall (which was later rebuilt by our builder). But as much as we love taking down walls and open plan living, having the odd wall here and the does make sense.

Open Plan Kitchen & Dining Room

When removing the wall between our kitchen and dining room, we also removed the wall between the kitchen and the hallway.

Knocking Down A Loadbearing Wall

Because of the way we’re reconfiguring the layout of the back of our house, we’ll eventually also be taking down the little rest of the wall (marked yellow in the drawing) to create a more rectangular room. But before we start taking down even more walls – we’ve put back a wall! Edwardian FloorplanWell, really it’s  just a door between the kitchen & dining room and hallway. We’d never planned on keeping the house quite as open plan as it has been for the last few months and having a door is starting to make the room feel – well, more like a room.

It was starting to get a bit annoying not having a door. When cooking all of the smells would go everywhere in the house and sometimes we’d accidentally set of our smoke alarm. It was also pretty much impossible to keep the space warm. At the moment we only have our new wood burning stove to heat the space and it’s just not powerful enough to heat the whole hallway as well!

The new layout really makes much more sense. The hallway is a bit smaller than it was, as we’ve moved the original position of the door to create more space in the kitchen & dining room.

Our joiner was almost too quick for me to snap some pictures of the progress.

Drywall Building

About an hour later it was already finished. The door (that’s currently still missing) is still going to be the original kitchen door. Having already restored two doors in our house (the bathroom door and the living room door), we know that the door will look great, even if it looks almost unsalvageable now. It’s just a lot of work – which probably involves even more time with the heat gun.

Stud Wall

This was one of those jobs that we decided to pay to have done, but having looked at what was actually involved we could have probably done it ourselves. All in all we’re glad that the room if starting to progress a bit.

Have you ever built a stud wall? Have you also paid for building work that you later thought you could have easily done yourself?

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  1. Magali@TheLittleWhiteHouse says

    23/01/2014 at 21:32

    The new floor plan a lot more sense and it’s great you were able to keep the original door!

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    • Christine says

      24/01/2014 at 20:11

      I know, the door still needs a lot of work, but it’s so exciting to see the room start to take shape!
      Cx

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  2. Louise says

    22/01/2014 at 11:44

    It is going to be a very comfortable square plan in the kitchen without that extra wall. The kitchen ceiling is looking intresting to me, is it patterned in some way? Are you going to use the same cornicing in the kitchen? I could not quite figure out why you left it behind the plasterboard since it is only so little left in the kitchen. It will look real nice with the flowing floor into the kitchen. Well, it always look easy when they do it =)

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    • Christine says

      22/01/2014 at 13:41

      You’re right, Louise, the kitchen ceiling is currently covered in an ugly textured wallpaper. We’re not going to have a cornice in the kitchen, the bit that you can see on the pictures, is the piece that was in the hallway. We’ll eventually be removing that wall, so there’ll be none left. Hope that makes sense! The ultimate plan is to slightly suspend the kitchen ceiling so that we can have recessed lighting and an extractor fan that’s in the ceiling.
      Cx

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