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Hello!

My fiancé and I just bought our first home a couple of months ago. We are extremely excited to start renovating it and making it our own! While we have a lot of ideas for the rest of our home and color schemes in mind… we are truly stuck on how to make our kitchen bigger and more accommodating to our lifestyle and needs. The problem lies with the awkward bump-out our kitchen is situated it.

Quick explanation of the kitchen layout: (I will edit this post with measurements/layout as soon as I am able to. I just didn't want to wait to post once I found this subreddit!)

• Our kitchen is completely situated in a bump-out, with the dining room to the left and a breakfast nook to the right. The dining room and breakfast nook walls are therefore farther "in" than the kitchen, since the kitchen wall is pushed out.
• There is a non-loadbearing wall that houses our fridge and pantry. This wall separates the kitchen from the living room.
• The door to our deck is in the breakfast nook.

So, our wants and needs:

• We want to knock out the wall that houses our pantry and refrigerator. Instead of this huge impeding wall, we will build an island. This will give us the width we need.
• We want to expand our kitchen into the breakfast nook (since we don't need a dining room AND a breakfast nook when they are literally a room away from each other) to give us the length we need.
• We obviously need a place to put our kitchen and build a brand new pantry.
• We obviously want it to be beautiful with plenty of space to walk, cook, and bake. And need to be able to get into the kitchen and out to the deck easily.
• We want this to be a DIY project (we have a relative who worked in construction and can help us a lot once we know what we want) and we DON’T want to re-do the entire kitchen. We also don't want to spend a fortune, but we don't have a budget set yet.

I really hope you guys are able to help, since Google, Pinterest, and Houzz have done nothing for us!

Thanks!!!

Submitted November 23, 2015 at 10:52PM by danielewis http://ift.tt/1X9qPSq DesignMyRoom