Remodelling your home to meet the needs of your growing family need not be as nerve-wracking as you think! With the right help, repurposing the layout of your home can be an exciting project that will give your family the space they need.

However, if your plans include the removal of internal walls to open up spaces or to knock two rooms into one, then you must check to see that the walls you plan to remove are load-bearing walls.

While many internal walls were built to create a divide between rooms and provide privacy or peace and quiet, modern families prefer more open plan living with rooms providing more elbow-room for different multi-purpose uses.

Extending the living room

A common need for a growing family is more living room space. Although comfort is key for a living room, bringing in oversized sofas can quickly guzzle up the available space. 

Unless your use your living room purely as a TV room, it isn’t going to be large enough to accommodate all of your family needs. 

With more families now using the living room as the hub of the home where several different activities now take place, from home-working to online gaming and home workout sessions, it makes sense that the living room should become the largest room in the house.

Our GL Design Services Ltd. team is getting more requests for plans that involve removing an internal load-bearing wall between the living room and dining room to create more living space. 

Entertaining made easy

Changing the internal layout of your home and removing dividing walls will also enable you to seat more people for family gatherings and celebrations. No matter what you celebrate, people always need a place to sit, and children need plenty of room to run around. 

It can make it harder to host family and friends if walls separate your living room, dining room and kitchen. Add in all the essential storage space needed by your growing family, and you will end up with a cramped and inflexible home where no one feels comfortable and hosting family gatherings become almost impossible.

However, changing the layout of your home and opening out the space by removing internal walls will give your family the room to grow that they need and provide you with plenty of flexibility with placing seats and tables for hosting your extended family for special occasions.

Creating a pleasant atmosphere

Quite often, older or more traditional house layouts were created to give homeowners cosy rooms that were easy to heat and keep warm. This was before modern central heating and double glazing, so homeowners now want to see the back of dark, cramped rooms in favour of more open-plan living spaces.

Opening up rooms by removing internal walls can brighten up your home, give it a greater sense of space, and create a more calm and relaxed atmosphere. But for safety’s sake, you must ensure that any internal walls you plan to remove are checked to see if they are weight-bearing walls.

If you are unsure about your internal walls and would like our GL Design Services Ltd. team to help you, do not hesitate to contact us.

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