Hello Would anyone have experience with a similar property to ours and share their solution/knowledge? Issue We have a small Victorian cottage gable-onto-driveway with L-shaped garden. The hall door, porch is three-quarters of the way down the property. Our modest accommodation 3 bedrooms (at gable) (the double b/room currently doubles up as a playroom), sitting room, (internal/no windows) bathroom and then scullery kitchen and off that a side return ('internal' courtyard which we have nice storage outbuilding and in is also where we also grow vegetables, fruit etc. Our idea We would like to bring the porch to the 'front' of the cottage. We want build a hall cottage entrance replicated but flush with corridor-hall. The bedrooms would then have new entrance doors through old gable wall into new hall. The hall door will be centre of the new hall, build a bathroom to one side (external window, proper ventilation). This new hallway would wrap around to the left of the property into a 30sqm room with french doors facing front and french doors at other end of that room (onto leftover section of garden) and this room would have a small en suite. This room would connect by french doors (subsume the current windows into the sitting room). The internal bathroom can be (happily!) demolished and space used to double the size of kitchen and connect by barn door/sliding solid door to playroom/dining room. We think this build would provide adequate living space for our small family and a flow to the house with spaces that can join up and close off, such flow which it currently lacks. Any advice / issues with hallway (integral porch, hall door) at gable with wraparound to garden room?

A few things I would change from experience...instead of a single and double door I would spend the extra money and put in a bifold corner section...would open up the space so much more. as for the kitchen...completely flip your design...put your breakfast bar closer to the window...make it large and multipurpose with the hob in it and then put your main band of cabinets either left, right or behind? We have recently restructured our existing cabinets to this layout and put in new countertops and it works far better than before!

I am getting a new kitchen and will be housing my washing machine and tumble dryer in behind tall kitchen cabinets. I have to go for a 600 mm width door/cabinet and a 700 mm door as the company do not do bespoke sizes and I am restricted by a boiler on top anyway. The depth for both units will be 700 mm. My tumble dryer will go behind the 700 mm width door which is fine (it has already been behind similar for years). I was hoping to put the washing machine in the 600 mm width unit but the kitchen company are saying I have to get an integrated one. Not really sure why as the width of the washing machine is 595 mm, the same as many integrated ones and I will have the 700 mm depth for the pipes at the back. Any thoughts or similar experiences?

How common is a 42x80 front door? If my builder has already framed that size but the house is not yet bricked, how complicated would it be to make the opening a little wider and have a 36x80 door with one sidelight?