We've got a dilemma. We've recently bought a victorian terrace house which strangely has a kitchen in the front reception room.
We don't want to stay in the house forever (or we would do the side return), so don't want to spend much, but we do need to do some works as it hasn't been decorated for yonks and we'd like to sell it on in 3 or so years.
We've realised we quite like the kitchen in the through reception. its currently in the front room and has enough room for a dining table too. in the back reception we have a sofa and tv and this works for us. its lovely and light and spacious and we spend most of our time in these rooms. the back room is narrow but fits a sofa and tv and computer in. its a bit of a spare room but the children decamp in there to play on the computer.
we want to put a new kitchen in and the two plans so far are to put it in the narrow back room (galley kitchen but has room for table too) or keep it in the back reception room and create a big living space. this would work best for our needs for the next few years, but I'm worried that it will put potential buyers off. The previous people did use the first floor front bedroom as a reception room.
So I was wondering if anyone else has this set up?
The usual thing round here seems to be to do the side return and put a big kitchen in the back room, but we don't want to spend the money on that if we're not staying for very long.
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Victorian terrace - anyone with kitchen in through reception and sitting room either at back of house or first floor front room?
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BeattieBow · 12/07/2014 16:58
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