Lounge/ diner - am I making a massive mistake?

[Wiggleroomm]

Lounge/ diner - am I making a massive mistake?

Fallen in love with a house which is great size, characterful, modernish (despite the longe diner), gorgeous well developed south facing garden and decking area, big bedrooms and lovely road with outstanding schools….. however it has a large lounge / diner and no other rooms downstairs. There is potential to knock through but it’ll be costly and we will have no money left after purchase. We already need to build a new bathroom upstairs and potentially separate one of the large bedrooms, strip wall paper and buy an outdoor storage facility.

I’ve only ever known a social, eat in kitchen - there not even room for a brekky bar.

Do you think we’ll get used to it or regret it forever? How fundamental is a kitchen / diner as opposed to a large longer / diner?

We are a family of four. One older child and one baby. We’ve also been looking for nearly a year - sold our house so could potentially lose buyers if we don’t find somewhere. No prepared to rent and with it coming up to October I feel like we’re at the the end of the housing season so need to find somewhere and settle really.

Thanks 🙏

I ended up buying a similar house. Like you I have always had a kitchen table, and really didn't want a separate dining room. No option to knock through for us due to the layout. The rest of the house is perfect though, so I really don't mind at all and I'm just used to it now.

The only thing I would say is given the age of your DC, can you see through to the living room from the kitchen, or is there some space for the DC to be in the kitchen while you cook. My DC are older so this isn't an issue.

I prefer a kitchen diner and it would put me off but maybe and I have no idea how easy this is to do but what about a serving hatch to keep and eye on kids.