At the back of our house, we have a kitchen/breakfast room, in which we have a back door right at the end next to the sink. Alongside it is the living room which has patio doors.
Because of the design of the kitchen, and where we keep our bins, we rarely use the back door as it's a squeeze to get it open etc. We use the patio doors all the time really.
We are going to have a new kitchen and I had decided to move the back door so I had a sort of galley kitchen with the door at the end.
With me so far?
My friend was over yesterday and said, if we never use the back door, why don't we just get rid of it, have units all the way around.
It would make the kitchen look fab, I can see, but would it put off future buyers that the only access to the garden would be through the patio doors?
We have laminate flooring but I could imagine if someone wanted to carpet the lounge they'd be unimpressed at dirty footprints coming through the house.
Would it stop you buying a house?
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BalloonSlayer · 02/09/2009 09:13
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