For almost a year now, my partner and I have owned a classic mexibrick house where the layout leaves a lot to be desired. Since the bathroom was ripped out by the previous owner after a poorly executed handicap adaptation in the 80s, we are now planning to use that space for the kitchen instead. Therefore, it would be invaluable to get some help from you on the forum to interpret the plans and see if it's even possible for us to proceed with the project.
The wall we want to remove is the upside-down "T" that is visible between the kitchen and bathroom (and the associated cleaning closet). The entire house's interior walls are built with planks, and the thickness made us worry that some walls might be load-bearing.
Here you can see the construction of the wall between the kitchen and bathroom from the bathroom side. Alternating standing and lying planks of a thicker model.
Image of the roof truss from the blueprint (which makes it feel like only the exterior walls are load-bearing, but better safe than sorry).
And finally, a picture of how we want the kitchen to look when everything is finished.
I appreciate all the tips, advice, and inputs I can get on the subject!
You should also have a drawing of what the roof trusses look like in more places, it feels like they might look different, perhaps with a different direction, over the bedroom at the bottom right of the image. Otherwise, my spontaneous thought is that the roof trusses do not need support from the wall you want to remove, if they don't have any support in the living room to the left in the image.
You should also have a drawing of what the rafters look like in more places, it seems like they might look different, possibly with a different direction, over the bedroom at the bottom right of the picture. Otherwise, my immediate thought is that the rafters don't need support from the wall you want to remove, unless they have some support in the living room to the left of the image.
Here is the bedroom (and also the garage), guessing from the images that the wall between the large and middle bedroom might be load-bearing?
It undeniably looks like you have self-supporting trusses over the wall you want to remove. A thought about your floor plan, but more work... Put the kitchen the other way around instead, where the laundry room is. It would become a large kitchen open to the living room. That way, you get space for a laundry room and bathroom where the kitchen and dining room are today.
Thank you for the input! After discussing things back and forth at home, we have decided that we might make a smaller renovation than we initially planned. Partly to finish faster, but also to keep costs down, as we might sell in the future and instead build new.
Here is at least a quick sketch of how it will probably turn out.
/Jocke
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