Kitchen/diner - Knock through or side return

last year

Hi everyone,

I'm currently looking to offer on a house with the below ground floor floorplan.

We are trying to work out whether to knock through the kitchen, breakfast room and w/c/boiler (shaded brown at the top of the plan) to create one room of approx 7.4 x 3.1 m or whether to do a side return creating a bigger space adding 2m to the width. The total cost of the side return would be approx 100k and so we really want to explore what all of the options if we did a knock through. I was thinking an L shape kitchen with built in bench/dining seats with a dining table and reading chair with bi-fold doors across the back. I am worried it will just be a very long narrow room and won't create a space that we can have people to socialise easily, With the side return we would be adding in the living aspect to the kitchen/diner. Does anyone have any ideas on how to best maximise the space if we keep it at 3m width? Any ideas greatly appreciated!

Thanks...

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Jonathan
last year
Your side extension sounds expensive at over £6k per square metre- I suspect that you wouldn’t recoup this in your resale. Also an extra 2m strip of room doesn’t equal an extra room so all you are doing is making a medium sized kitchen into one that’s big enough for an island.

Consider if the space at the back could also be a dining room and understairs wc and if the kitchen would be better in the current dining room.
Sophie Geoghegan-Fittall
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last year
Thanks Jonathan, I hadn't thought of switching the rooms around. You're right on making a medium sized room into a slightly bigger room - it's certainly already bigger than a galley kitchen so would need to really assess whether we need an island. As a family of two plus a dog it would only be occasional use for big groups. Thanks again
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