Enlarging the hallway floor plan REH from 1921: Tips?

Sorry for my late reply. One of our family pets passed away, and we were also away from home for a while, so this was put on the back burner.

First of all, thank you for your efforts!

We always eat in the kitchen and absolutely need this table. The table in the living room will probably eventually be replaced by a larger sofa. Also, it would be far too inconvenient for me to always carry everything back and forth. The room is correctly measured, the structural engineer (previous owner) did that, and the measurements are accurate, everything is also correct at the window.

I saw a table in the living room. With all the lines and measurements, you overlook half of it. You could also take paper and pencil and show a picture of the current state.

I wanted to give a little update.

We will start the construction project, provided everything goes well, during the course of next year; initial talks with the sanitary company were positive. We have thought it over again and considered the tips and suggestions from here. The only really practical solution for our needs (definitely no open kitchen, definitely a dining table in the kitchen, and we definitely need more space in the hallway) seems to be the one with the recessed niche for the larger hallway closet. We would completely remove the wall for this and rebuild it with drywall. Exactly with the niche and possibly we would recess the wall a few centimeters towards the kitchen. Currently, it is so narrow that you bump into it with a shopping basket or laundry basket and cannot walk straight through, and that is what we would change. A slightly smaller kitchen would be okay as long as the dining table still fits. If the finances allow, we would then renew the kitchen right away (the current kitchen is old and was already bought second-hand) and adapt it with extra high wall cabinets to compensate for the small loss of space.

And now we are waiting for the offer from the [Sanis] :eek:.

The project is progressing. Construction work is scheduled to start in April. We have since had the structural engineer here. The wall between the kitchen and the hallway, which is to be altered, despite its small thickness of 7cm, has a load-bearing function for the same wall on the upper floor and is a [Bundwand] (greatly simplified timber framing with single-row hollow bricks), so the supporting beam will probably need to be reinforced (still needs to be calculated). We have decided to set back the piece of wall below the kitchen door by about 10-15cm towards the kitchen in order to gain a bit more space in the hallway, especially for passing through with groceries and laundry baskets. The part above the kitchen door will be set back by about 35cm to approximately 1.55m in width so that the large hallway wardrobe can finally fit. It will then be a drywall partition, as narrow as possible. In the living room, we will rearrange a little; the dining table will be removed, leaving the dining area in the kitchen. For this, we are buying a larger sofa (currently, only four of us can just barely fit on it) and placing a small desk at the left living room window for working.
The kitchen will be newly purchased; the planning appointment is at the end of February at Ikea. It is to be a large U-shaped kitchen with a lot of storage space, extra-high wall cupboards, cleaning cabinet, etc. Our first new kitchen :). Until now, we have only had used and very inexpensive kitchens.
With this, we gain more space in the living room (no dining table anymore, larger sofa), more storage space in the kitchen (new kitchen), as well as more walking area and more storage space in the hallway. Although I would like a bigger dining area for more guests, we simply don’t have the space, and luckily almost everyone here has a birthday in summer, when we celebrate anyway in the large garden. Through the underfloor heating and the removal of the radiators, we will even gain a little more floor space.

The wall between the kitchen and the hallway, which is to be altered, despite its small thickness of 7 cm, has a load-bearing function for the same wall on the upper floor and is a bund wall (greatly simplified timber framing with single-row hollow bricks), therefore the load-bearing bund beam will probably need to be reinforced

I cannot imagine it as load-bearing, but rather as bracing.

I can't imagine it as load-bearing, but as bracing.

Well, it supports the wall above. If we remove it at the bottom, there could be cracks in the wall above or it could collapse. The entire house would not collapse.