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Open-Plan Kitchen Conversion

Separate rooms opened into one light-filled kitchen, dining and living space — steel beam in, walls out, finished in around five weeks.

This home had the space for a proper kitchen-diner-living room — it was just divided into separate rooms that kept it apart. The answer was structural: a steel beam between the living and dining rooms to carry the wall that came out, new windows, and a knocked-through window opening turned into patio doors to bring the garden in.

Project typeStructural alteration & kitchen refurbishment
ScopeSteel beam · Open-plan conversion · New windows · Patio doors · Kitchen installation
TimescaleApprox. 5 weeks
Opening Up

Taking the walls out safely

Structural work is the part you can't improvise. With the rooms stripped, props held the loads while the openings were formed — then the steel beam went in between the living and dining rooms, quietly doing the job the old wall used to.

Acrow props and steel beam installation during open-plan conversionAcrow props and steel beam installation during open-plan conversionAcrow props and steel beam installation during open-plan conversion
The Rebuild

From building site to kitchen

With the structure sorted, the space came back together fast: ceilings closed over the steel, new windows fitted, the old window opening cut down to floor level for patio doors, and the new kitchen built in — dark cabinetry, a big marble-effect island and clean, squared-away joinery.

Kitchen island and new windows being fitted during rebuildKitchen island and new windows being fitted during rebuildKitchen island and new windows being fitted during rebuild
The Result

One room, three jobs

Cooking, eating and living in a single open space — with sightlines from the kitchen right through to the garden, and daylight from three directions where internal walls used to be.

Finished open-plan kitchen dining and living spaceFinished open-plan kitchen dining and living spaceFinished open-plan kitchen dining and living space
Finishing Touches

The details that lift it

Lit display niches, under-island lighting, seating for the whole family at the island, and the new patio doors framing the end of the room — the finishing touches that turn a structural project into a favourite room.

Finished kitchen details with lit niches and patio doorsFinished kitchen details with lit niches and patio doorsFinished kitchen details with lit niches and patio doors

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