The way we design our homes or have others design them can make all the difference to the available space that we have inside them. Structurally, they will already be designed in many cases, but we can still control how we use the space inside. It can be more cost-effective to purchase small house plans as a solution to building or renovating a house to make the best use of space. We can have a professional architect or interior designer work on our behalf so that we can achieve better use of space.
So, let us consider just where we can save space, to give us an idea about how our house can be designed better in the first place, if we are considering a new build, or be improved if we already have it built but are weighing up whether to stay put or move due to a growing family and a lack of space.
Splitting Rooms
A wonderful way to make more space is to split up rooms. This can, for instance, mean making one bedroom into two. The advantage of this is that you can sleep more people with greater privacy. Due to ages and gender, certain relatives will not generally sleep in the same room. This can mean that you are struggling to accommodate everyone with your current layout. This can be resolved by splitting bedrooms.
By splitting any room, you will gain extra corners and walls to accommodate the furniture that would otherwise have cluttered up the middle of the room and been a trip hazard and gain more wall space to hang pictures that have previously been hidden away.
Kitchen Islands
If you require extra surfaces to prepare food in your kitchen, then kitchen islands will provide the solution. Rather than having all your tops and surfaces around the perimeter of your kitchen, you can have an extra one in the middle of your kitchen. It makes sense to gain this extra surface because your table to eat around can be just your dining room table. Why waste space by having both a kitchen and a dining room table?
To make it easier to eat in the dining room, you can have a hatch through to your kitchen so that you can pass food, plates, and eating utensils through to another person that is already standing or sitting in the dining room.
You might want to consider a snack bar or bar where drinks are served in another room of your house other than the kitchen. This would prove popular and be convenient when entertaining guests. This can also combine the area where you view movies and where you provide refreshments from. It frees up your kitchen area in respect of certain eating activities. There is no reason why your kitchen has to be the only place where guests and family members can obtain food. To save on room in your kitchen, you could also house your larger fridge freezer in an outhouse instead of it taking up kitchen floor space.
Bathroom
Showers take up less space than baths, so you might want to think about how much you value the luxury of a bath. Do you have time for one, anyway? Many modern homes have removed old cast iron baths and replaced them with a modern shower cubicle. It has provided more space within bathrooms.
Wall-hung toilets will take up less space in a bathroom. They also look modern and minimalistic and give bathrooms an airy and clean aesthetic. Floor-mounted toilets might be more traditional but do take up more space. Space is a premium when you have a growing family.
Re-designing can save the costs incurred of transitioning to a larger house when it was only a little more space that was required in each room.
In summary, we can save space within our homes by splitting rooms such as bedrooms into two, constructing kitchen islands for another kitchen surface, and considering how much we use our bath when a shower would take up less space.
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