Help with Layout / Extension

last month

Hi there!

We’d love some help. We have a small, very strange layout to our downstairs & want to extend to create more living space. Our issue is that I’m not keen on an open plan kitchen/living room, as without a door to the kitchen with the stairs being where they are the smells of cooking would fill the whole house. But if we extended the kitchen we wouldn’t have much natural light in the living room.

We also don’t know if we’d get planning permission to extend from the end of the kitchen by 3m and also square off the right side to make it level (hopefully that makes sense?)

We’d be happy to convert the garage into a room, but that wouldn’t create a very big room.

Our main wishes would be: More living space in both the living room & kitchen, making it easier for hosting.

If we could have a small utility area that would be great too (our washing machine is currently in the garage)

I know it all depends on budget etc but any ideas would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Jodie

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Jonathan
last month
You could move the stairs, reconfigure, and build a smaller extension- which resolves your stated problems………

But instead of this plan I think you should not reconfigure, not move the stairs and instead spend the money building bigger. Roof lights, well planned electric lighting and a pale floor will all help with light. And you perhaps you should splash out on an amazing extractor (or two) to help with cooking smells.
rinked
last month
On the left a 3.5m extension (measured from reception exterior wall) and garage turned into kitchen.

And on the right a 4.5m extension and new hallway (on the side a utility and wc makeover) and new staircase. Plus some upstairs tweaks that give a slightly larger bathroom.

(Furniture added for scale and layout purposes.)
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Thank you both so much for your help! I’ll show these to my husband and see what he thinks!!
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Do you know which walls are structural? (Which way do the ceiling joists go?)

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