You have all the reasons to redo the house, its very lifeless and looks worn out. I feel creating a separation will terminate the spaciousness of the room. Adding colours will surely help, Since you have a tan color sofa,I suggest grey, white or light blue color on one of the walls. Add some art works of the color you chose for the wall. This room needs some fillers like , books, throws, candle stands tall and lean. YES DON FORGET 1. Mount the tv on the wall make some space on the floor and Fix a large size mirror ( Wooden Frame if you can afford).

For the living room, the focus should be the balcony area. So flipping the couch to face the wall and not the dining table will help. Kind of like this pic. Even if you already have the sectional that is in the diagram, you should be able to flip it. In fact a sectional would probably work better than the couch in this pic. I also really don't like the style of this pic, but it showed what I meant, For the girls' room: No matter which bedroom you choose, you should maximize floor space so that they have the biggest play space possible in their room (as they get older you can add desks for school work and such). To get this space, I would give them bunk beds. This configuration gives them an open feel and more storage, essential for girls. You posted two different kitchen designs. This makes it hard to give you advice. I agree with other posts that your sink should be away from the wall. This allows you to have stuff to the left of you (drying dishes in my house), while you wash vegetables on the right of the sink. You need the same space on both sides of the stove, also. At least 24 inches on both sides is good. 36 is better, though. The first design has a nice little countertop space that adds a place for your daughters a space to sit a watch/ talk to you while you're in the kitchen. When they added this to the first design, you lost cabinets on the other wall. This is bad, as the space is already storage limited. Try making the rounded countertop bump out into the living space more. If you play with the shape, you could make it work without losing the cabinets on the other side. It doesn't have to be rectangular or a perfect circle. You can see how this one isn't confined to the floor plan of the kitchen. I think this is what you would need to do to make it the most functional.

Ashwani/ Nainita , It is advisable you post the floor plan along with the images of the kitchen for anyone to give an informed suggestion. Thanks, Nitin CORNERSTONE DESIGNS, Bangalore.

Hello, everyone! I had my kitchen remodeled in 2018. Huge remodel, down to the studs, etc. My husband recently noticed that on one large wall cabinet, the doors had become uneven. Upon inspection, the cabinet is sagging and seems to be coming apart. I've added some photos here to show the uneven doors, what the shelves look like, what we're keeping in the cabinets, and where you can see the cabinet coming apart at the top. This is a three-door cabinet -- two doors on the right and one on the left. I'm planning to contact our contractor who installed the cabinets, but I hope to get some opinions here: Does it look like the cabinet wasn't glued properly? Did we store too much stuff in here? Was it a bad design to have such a large box to begin with? Cabinet is 53" wide, 42" high, frameless, hybrid construction. None of the other cabinets show any such problems. Thanks for any observations, information or opinions you can offer.