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Thanks Bryn. if we do that, living will only be 3m wide, by 5m long. Do you think that's too long and skinny? There's also a fireplace along the far wall, but I guess we could rip it out.

An interior designer we spoke to on the weekend at the Building & Reno Expo suggested leaving the wall between kitchen and living and opening up the kitchen to the rear sunroom. Beginning to feel a bit lost and scared about the whole thing :( Maybe we need an architect, but that'd eat up...

We purchased for $405k but the floorplan is really awkward and the kitchen is virtually unusable (we had to buy an IKEA island just to have some prep space). I'm not sure how much it will increase the value but it would have to make it better than it is now. An unrenovated 3 x 2 place near us...

The builder (who's offering advice because he's a friend but we're mostly DIYing it) said it was all doable. My mum (who's done a heap of renos/owner builds) said we don't need council approval for interior changes... but maybe she's just never gotten caught. How will they know we're removing a...

Yeah we are worried about it being load-bearing.. builder friend mentioned we need an engineer but not sure how to go about that. I thought it was the builder's job to assess that kind of stuff! In any case, we were thinking or running a support beam along the top. We do want to put in a deck...

We wanted an architect to come through, walk around and give us some ideas on how best to change the floorplan with the money we have. But perhaps with a $20,000 budget they won't really be able to tell us anything particularly exciting?

Thanks guys! Some things there we hadn't thought of yet. Trying to decide whether to fork out on an Archicentre architect or just do it ourselves from recommendations and our own ideas.

We have $25,000 to open up this floor plan for weatherboard in Albion. Will source stuff second-hand where possible and do a lot of work ourselves but due to measly budget can't move existing plumbing except to add second toilet to central bathroom. GOALS: Make room for second toilet...