Layout advice please - can we create a kitchen/diner?

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25 days ago

Hi all

We currently have a house with a galley kitchen at the front of the house. There is also a narrow dining room on the other side of the front of the house.

We are happy with the living room/conservatory at the rear of the house but we would ideally like to have a kitchen diner at the front of the house but we are struggling to come up with a layout that works.

We would love to hear any ideas or suggestions that anyone may have!

Thanks everyone

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Isla Cherry
24 days ago
Would you want to keep the kitchen on the side it is now? It would be much more social if the kitchen was where the lounge and conservatory are currently placed. This may be rather expensive to do though with having to move all the services. Is your garden south facing?
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24 days ago
we would prefer to keep the kitchen on the side it is on now but we are interested in any ideas so thanks! We were not sure if moving the kitchen into the living room would leave enough living room space? (The garden faces East)
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Isla Cherry
24 days ago
If you would prefer to keep the kitchen where it is then the easiest way to create kitchen diner is to remove the two hallway separation walls running from the storm porch right back to the stairs and the cloakroom. What is the passage width? I am not sure from your plan whether these walls are studs or loadbearing. Do you have a front elevation pic to post? You could also check the floor joist positions upstairs. Removing these walls might require a structural design and steels to support the roof.
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24 days ago
I wonder if moving the wc and boiler to the front where your current kitchen sink is to create a utilty and separate wc then have a secondary door across the hall that leads into your kitchen diner. removing part of the hall walls to connect the two.
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24 days ago
Front of house pic would help as mentioned. Might it be possible to build a porch on the front? How much space do you have down the sides - would it be possible to create a side main entrance and then have the room across the front?

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