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Extension/kitchen layout help please!

3 years ago

Hello, I’m really hoping for some advice please as I’m going round in circles!

I am planning for an extension and am unsure how big to go and what I can achieve.

The aim is to have a dining and living space at the back of the house and have a bigger living room which is to be kept open (light comes from the front of the house and I don’t want to be cut off from the children).

It’s not the widest house (extension will be 5.45m wide) so am I trying to fit this is when there isn’t really room??

I’m also told not to go through the utility to get to the kitchen, but I envisage the utilities being in built in cupboards out of sight. I would also not block off the living room door as shown in the plans (by the front door) so guests would go through the living room to get to the kitchen. And I can’t see any other way without sacrificing a lot of space to ‘hall’.

Does this 6m plan work or is there a better way, does that kitchen layout work? I’ve also adapted to a 5m extension, would this work with the smaller utility area? I have an option of having the dining table by the living room but would this be annoying to walk round?

Ideally I don’t want the dining area parallel with the kitchen as it becomes a bit of a walkthrough and as it’s not the widest house I think it would be a bit cramped.

Help greatly appreciated, I don’t want to submit to planning if I can’t actually make the layout work and should go for something smaller!

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Comments (7)

User
3 years ago
I'm no expert, but I think you should move the rooflights further towards the existing external walls, to bring more light into the rear of the extension.
Jonathan
3 years ago
I would also move the door between the hall and living room- if it were further back in the hallway it would be easier to furnish the lounge and it would stop it feeling like a corridor
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cannonja
3 years ago
Point blank
Don't like any of your options

Flip the kitchen

Put utility where small office desk is

Create a seamless entrance hall to kitchen area

Build up side door and have built storage or pantry
Gemluv100
Original Author
3 years ago
Thank you, appreciate your comments. I would need a side door somewhere I think as we’re in the countryside so there are lot of muddy boot situations! There was this option (disregarding the kitchen layout) but I wasn’t sure it was. But small and the utilities where under the stairs in the hall so felt a bit out in the open? But does that work better?
Gemluv100
Original Author
3 years ago
Also as I’m building out the porch, could there be an option to utilise that in anyway?
rinked
3 years ago
We have the exact same layout and decided not to extend the living area. There already was a mudroom/utility extension. We did remove the reception-dining wall and chimneys, removed the kitchen-dining wall. Our fridge freezer and oven are in the mudroom. And I cut a rectangle out of the toilet-kitchen wall to make room for a small toilet washbasin, the hole is patched with plywood and tiled on the kitchen side. The desk is next to the dining table, only need to turn the chair around. NB we do have a small cellar where we store food, oven trays and such.
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Katie Older Lighting Design
3 years ago
Hi Gem, I am a lighting designer if you need help designing a scheme and specifying fittings. Kind regards, Katie

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