Would we be mad to buy a home and knock down a perfectly functional extension?

[WaryRaven]

i have found a house I absolutely adore. It is a period home and absolutely stunning…from the front. Unfortunately there is a well built but rather awkward “garden room” extension I just don’t like. It’s the shape I have a problem with. Aesthetically it’s fine. Floors and walls are nice enough. I would just want to get rid of the whole thing. But would I be mad for doing so? Dh thinks I’m nuts but I assure him many people would also consider the garden room an eye sore and maybe build an orangery type thing to the west of the kitchen in a few years down the line. I hate how the original external windows have just had the glass removed so there are just big square holes between the kitchen and garden room.

It really is quite gorgeous from the front. Would I not just be knocking thousands off the value?

I wouldn’t remove the link, lots of people read these posts and, you never know, someone might see it and love it. Driving visitors to the website to view the house can be a really good thing.

As my gran would say, you must have more money than sense!

Tbh i would live with it for a year or two and see how you go it’s totally different looking around to actually living in.

Having looked at the listing I would 100% keep that my concern would be the amount of worktop in the kitchen but not an insurmountable problem in what is a gorgeous house

I'd just move the kitchen into the garden room, it's beautiful.

Keep it for the moment while you settle in and work out how/whether you use it. Put back some doors between your kitchen and the garden room. In a year or two you can decide whether to revamp, demolish and/or rebuild. You will have time to decide what you want to do with it, what style you want, and to save up some money so you can do what you really want.

Live in it for a year before making your decision.

That's a huge alteration you are considering, and not financially viable as others have said before me. You need to look for something else which will not need as much demolition, if any, because it's clear this outer room is bothering you and I doubt you will come to terms with it, so move on. Someone else might buy it who loves the extension, so let them enjoy it instead.

It's gorgeous. But I would keep the garden extension and just revamp it. Maybe put in some full length doors, it would be good to be able to open it up to the outside as the dining bit is a bit narrow

Wouldn't it be better to look for another house, since the price you are paying presumably reflects the fact that it has additional space?

Can you not get someone in to redesign it for you. Ie knock down the walls into the garden room so it's not just windows taken out? It's an amazing space & could look lovely if done right. You'd be mad to knock it down & you'd be paying over the odds for a house without it so financially it doesn't make sense buying it.