AIBU to add serving hatches between kitchen, utility and dining room?

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It's a floorplan question!

I want to turn my current kitchen into a utility room and the current second reception into a kitchen. The problem is the dining room would be far from the kitchen and we will often need to take things from the new utility to go into the kitchen.

AIBU to add one or more serving hatches to the floorplan - between kitchen and utility and utility and dining room, respectively?

Marked up floorplan attached as well as a serving hatch idea

This, judging from the plans it's about 9 feet to the dining room from the kitchen. Surely half a dozen steps are quicker than faffing with two hatches. It's a far cry from needing a dumb waiter.

@5foot5 we also had someone to design our kitchen when we changed things around. I told him what I wanted (as much worktop as possible, ceiling height cupboards, floor to ceiling cupboards). We were also having a small extension containing a utility/shower room put in and he designed that too.

He came up with a couple of ridiculous ideas (cupboard width loo directly off the kitchen and next to the back door anyone?) but also some really good ones which we took on board and would not have thought of on our own. It was an independent kitchen and bathroom company, so they arranged the planning, the trades, the project schedule, the building supplies and equipment. I did choose and buy some of the equipment myself because I didn't like what I could choose from - but that was OK. It was well worth it, for us, to have everything planned and done at the same time rather than in dribs and drabs, even if it meant we had to have all the money available at the time rather than being able to save up for it as we went.

Sorry, I've not read the whole thread.

We had a similar layout and I vaguely considered serving hatches. Our kitchen was in the middle, however. How are you thinking the hatches would be used? Would two of you be relaying food through to the dining room from the kitchen via the utility room? Honestly it doesn't sound very useful to me - not worth the loss of wall space that would be involved. Sorry!

In our case we ended up replacing our conservatory with a dining room extension, which has created a fantastic space. Unfortunately it is not the economical option. Cheaper for you though as you wouldn't need to move the kitchen. You could perhaps look into adding a solid but light roof, heating and insulation to the conservatory to make it a liveable space for dining?

Another thing I would consider is to extend the kitchen into the proposed new utility space (unless I'm misunderstanding your diagrams), thereby buying yourself more seating space in the kitchen. Your proposed utility plan seems quite large considering the size of your house.

If the conservatory is narrow (as you method upthread), you could have a seating area along one wall - a bench along the wall and chairs on the other side.

Our extension is also narrower than I'd ideally like, but we still love it and use it all the time. We've got a fairly narrow table and only shallow shelves and radiators on the walls to save space.

An architect looked at the conservatory and concluded that it's not suitable for a large dining table. It's really small and oddly shaped. We currently can fit about 5 people really crammed around a round table .