kitchen and living room

3 years ago

Hello Everyone,

I am after ideas on how I can layout my kitchen along with my living room to give it a more spacious feel. Our kitchen has a large bay window (a feature I don’t want to lose) and gets a lot of light but the living room stays quite dark except in the evenings. I was thinking maybe opening it up and doing it as open plan, but not sure if the wall is load bearing?

My other idea was to get a small extension to replace the WC at the end of the kitchen and add a small utility / seating space which opens to the garden and move the WC between kitchen and living room.

However, with an extension I am in two minds as we’ll probably move in maybe 5-6years and don’t want to spend money if we eventually rent or sell the property.

any advice on layout or open plans or even moving the toilet (basically the outhouse which previous owner’s attached to kitche) can

be moved around for a better layout.

thank you

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OnePlan
3 years ago
Hi - moving the dining room to kitchen door over to the right would enable one lovely long run of kitchen along the left. Could be useful ! ( NB. If it’s a structural wall you will need to consult a Structural Engineer and have a RSJ type support lintel over the door)
Aysha Rassul thanked OnePlan
Aysha Rassul
Original Author
3 years ago
I did consider that option as well but when I taped it out and saw how much space it would give it didn’t really work. If the toilet doesn’t get moved to the space next to garden door then I was planning to get a pantry made there.
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3 years ago
When you say living room, do you mean the dining room on your plan? Where is the door into the dining room, from hall or living room?
Aysha Rassul
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3 years ago
Hello...yes sorry the dining room we call living room and the front living room is a play room. The hallway leads into the dining room and opposite from the kitchen/dining room door so from the front door you can see straight to kitchen.

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