Extending Kitchen into Garage/Partial Garage Conversion

2 years ago

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Hi, I'm struggling with ideas for a not particularly practical kitchen. Wall cupboards are too bulky and too low so I want to rip those out and have a few shelves, but that leaves lack of storage. The bit that juts out on the outside wall is a pillar and our boiler is sandwiched between that and the sink. The door into the garage is a dark wasted corner and the tall units we currently have on the rear wall are far too imposing The current idea is to extend the rear wall of the kitchen far enough into the garage just for built in double oven, cupboard and possibly fridge freezer. We also have scope to potentially knock into the cupboard under the stairs but the consumer unit & electricity meter are currently in there.

How big/expensive a job would it be to add around 1x2m onto the kitchen into the garage and move electrics about? That part of the kitchen is already an old breezeblock extension.

Is it a safety hazard to build an enclosure under the stairs and knock through from the kitchen to house a built in oven?

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Daisy England
2 years ago
Your best bet is to extend into the garage. Get a builder out to quote.
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Susy Q
2 years ago
If it turns out extending into the garage is expensive could you go the other way and put a wall up marked in green to make a smaller lounge but then open up the whole back for a kitchen diner?
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Susy Q
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And then possibly put a door to the garage from the hallway and block up that corner in the kitchen so you can run units all the way round? I’m guessing the pillar by the sink is the original corner of the house so probably expensive to move!
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Phil Turner
Original Author
last year

Sorry to resurrect an old thread that I totally forgot to check. Thanks both for suggestions :-). We did eventually put a door from hall into garage to get things moving in the right direction but life gets in the way.

We now want to extend the kitchen into the passage that runs down the side of the kitchen, which is just part of the garage so we can create a U shape kitchen with breakfast bar.

The kitchen had already been extended into the garage by 1.5m when we moved in, so the wall we want to knock down is non supporting. The extension would only be 1 x 3m into the garage, we'd brick up on both sides to block from garage and the bit that juts out onto the patio. Would need pipes & electrical cables re-routing and all the works associated with making it into a liveable area.

It would also mean we'd need to knock through to the patio from the kitchen, the existing window is 1.2m wide and 2.05m from floor to lintel, figured we wouldn't have too much trouble replacing this with a door?

Looking for an idea of cost really if anyone has any idea? We are Midlands based.

Any advice much appreciated :-)

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