susiewicks

Floorplan design advice please

Susie Wicks
5 years ago
Hello wise Houzz community,
I’m hoping to get some opinions on the floor plan for our extension. At the moment we have the dining area extending further out than the living (see photo) and were hoping to have sliding window doors on both sides of this living area so the whole area opens up to the deck ie. a completely open corner. The engineer has come back and said we would be looking at massive steel beams either inside or out and up to $20000 in extra costs to achieve this!!! So now we’re rethinking everything. We could still have sliding glass doors on both sides of the dining area but have a corner to the room so it doesn’t completely open up. Or we could change the design so the rear wall goes straight across instead of an L shape which would mean reworking the whole internal layout.
We have a small back yard so trying not to extend much further and lose deck/grass space.
Any thoughts or advice much appreciated!

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