The first notable feature of our house project is what appears to be a Victorian trait, the distinct lack of natural light, this will need some serious attention as one of the prime objectives is to create a light and open feel to the building, particularly to the ground floor rooms.
On this level there are three rooms, originally the kitchen, scullery and dining room, all have walls and doors keeping each room separate and consequently quite dark rooms depending on the time of day and the position of the sun(when it decides to make an appearance!).
So, the plan is to open up the whole ground floor which will mean taking out completely, a non load bearing wall separating the kitchen and scullery and opening up the solid wall separating the scullery and dining room. This will allow natural light at both ends of the building and from a largish side window.
At the rear there is a two pane patio door which ideally will require opening up almost the full width of the room as the rear of the house is south facing and will allow maximum light into what will be the kitchen diner, the original dining room will become the living room and at this end there is a very large bay window which allows an abundance of light into the room. Onwards............the photographs on the left show the work carried out so far..........
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