Dilemma ! Please help. To convert dining room into a kitchen?

[yoyoman]

Our kitchen is tiny. We will be knocking into the side garage to make it bigger but it will still be fairly small ( narrow) 2.60m x 4.75

I'm thinking of knocking the wall between the kitchen an dining room (3mx3.5m)
Turning the dining room into a kitchen with small island
And putting a long dining table where the kitchen used to be.

I reckon that the long, narrowsih kitchen will look better with a dining table and the square dining room as a kitchen

BUT it seems a bit topsy-turvy in my head ! Am j just being weird?
Please share your thoughts/ advice.

Thank you

We knocked down a wall to make a kitchen diner. Kitchen area at one end and dining table and chairs at the other

If you plan to be in your home some time and can justify the expense, I'd do it if it makes the space work better for you.

When we purchased our current home (a 400 year old, non-listed detached cottage) 3.5 years ago, the kitchen was in a back room measuring 5.1m x 3.35m. Between that and the front reception room (4.8m x 3.6m) was a long, narrow room (5.1m x 2.4m) which served very little purpose as there was already a second reception room elsewhere.

We couldn't easily knock through between kitchen and this middle room because of a massively wide chimney breast between the two - one of the few remaining original features in the building 🙄 - so instead took the rather left field decision to knock the wall down between front and middle rooms and move the kitchen to there. We now have a lovely, relatively spacious (7.3m x 5.1, narrowing to 3.6m) eat-in kitchen with space for an island and table....or sofa, which is what we currently have in there 😎

The old kitchen became our snug for watching TV.

Best decision we made and - although we've done plenty of renovating old houses before, so we're not scared of hard work (DIY!) - it gave us the confidence to completely reconfigure the upstairs layout too 😉😃

sounds like it could be a good idea, but can you post a floor plan?

Here are some floor plans so it makes a bit more sense.

Looks like a good size space, can you leave the kitchen sink approx where it is and plan the rest of the kitchen around that? I believe it’s a big job to move the water and drainage etc, floors need to be dug up.
I can see why you might want the kitchen over in the current dining room area though, just depends whether it’s worth the cost of switching it all around. An island might not work in the narrower kitchen space, but a peninsula would work well.

In your shoes, I’d put the kitchen in the dining room, and use kitchen as a home office space or hobby room. Then put utility /boot room and downstairs loo in back of garage.

But, that’s because my family play musical instruments and I hate noise!

here is one possible floorplan. red = new walls and blue = walls removed.

U = utility with WC and laundry and a door to the garden

K = kitchen in the middle with a wide archway to the dining room. if you remove the door from kitchen to garden, you get a good run of space for appliances and it will be a big welcoming space.

forgot to draw one new door from the hall to the kitchen & dining room ...

I would put the kitchen at the garage end and put a door between dining and living room I like to be able to move freely from one of these to the other. Also will you have a way of accessing the garden from your dining area..be nice to have French doors instead of a window. That area might then take an armchair overlooking your garden in that corner..Nice reading spot!

We did exactly what you’ve described. In your case I would try to utilise all or half of the garage.