Send us some pictures. I've got my own interior design problem with our
new to us 50 year old house. The entrance to the kitchen from the
dining room is a bottleneck. The doorway is only 29" wide, with
cabinets on both sides as soon as you enter. Next, you bang your left
shoulder on the refrigerator door handle as you walk in (assuming that
someone is not blocking the way by trying to access the refrigerator or
the cabinets there). But I do have some pictures I took recently:
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/kitchen/index.htm> (sorry, Mynolta A1 only)
Photos 1 and 2 show how tight the doorway is and the refrigerator as an
obstacle to be avoided. And, no, the door can't be changed to swing the
opposite direction since it won't clear the cabinets across the way.
The only solution I've been able to think of is to move the refrigerator
to behind the open door you see in photos 3 and 4 at the location of the
dimmer switch you see at far right in photo 4. The garage is behind
that wall and I think there is enough room that I could probably invert
that corner or make an alcove there to make a recess for the
refrigerator. But then the question becomes what to do with my nice
cherry wood cabinets that now surround the refrigerator. Those to the
left of and above the refrigerator could probably have 6" cut off their
backs to allow making the entrance door frame 6" wider. But removing
the refrigerator makes a big hole that has to be filled with something
that somehow blends with the existing cabinetry.
I've been at a loss for a year trying to figure a solution.
Chuck Norcutt
Jez Cunningham wrote:
> Request for help!
> Any interior designers on the list who have good ideas about room layout?
> Or photographers with lots of experience of house interiors?
> We just bought a new house (new to us, only 100 years old) and it has a
> L-shaped living room.
> We're at a loss how to arrange the furniture to optimise the windows/doors,
> fireplace, speaker placement, etc.
> Or any good reference books on the topic? (I don't need no CAD program,
> squares of graph paper are working well - save for the dearth of intelligent
> ideas)
> thanks in advance
> jez
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