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[GoldTurtle]

Me and my partner have been looking for our first home. After many viewings we finally think we have found our dream house but 1 thing that we both thought needed was a hallway to make it perfect. I've attached the floor plan any ideas on creating a hallway would be appreciated and the costs.

True but we usually only use a living room in the evenings, so I'd rather that be tucked at an end.

I think the porch idea will be the least disruptive and cheapest option to start off. You will have the space you need as you enter the house then? Eventually you could convert the garage if you wanted. I've viewed a few houses where there is a hallway but the living room is tiny (in a lot of new builds now they call them snugs). So what you might lose in a separate hallway dividing the rooms, you might gain in bigger rooms.

I recently bought a big kallax unit and divided a large room and gained lots of storage. You could section off a bit of the living room, put some coat hooks on the wall and use the inserts in the unit for shoes and bags. No building work at all and kallax is cheap and easy to put together.

I have a similar layout.
We turned the garage into a kitchen diner knocking through to what would be your kitchen. We blocked off the wall between the dining room and lounge. We also put a porch on the front to give a longer hallway. So you come in turn right into the living room, left into an L shaped kitchen diner. It works really well for us.

Really good idea... mulling things over putting a porch means we lose more driveway. Hence not much room at the mo. Structurally looking as though it would cost more and lot of work.. looking as though it is possibly a no for this house unless its reduced further.

Yes that's a very annoying layout. The living room is effectively a corridor to the rest of the house and you're limited in what you can do layout wise.

This would put me off too. You'd have to take all your shopping through the living room to get to the kitchen.

here is a possible update to the floorplan

new front door goes directly into the garage (old one becomes a window) where you have a big hall (H) with space for coats and shoes etc.

next you have a utility room (U) with a downstairs loo in it

next you have a bit more kitchen (K) so there is more space for cooking etc.

and I should also have drawn a door between the hall and kitchen.

in terms of budget, only the utility and kitchen update are expensive. the rest should be pretty cheap and easy to do.

Why do you want a hallway OP? The current structure looks great to me.

You'd have to take all your shopping through the living room to get to the kitchen.

I've had to do this in every house I've lived in so it wouldn't bother me. Actually the house I grew up in had a small porch and then straight into the lounge. I always thought my friends hallways were a waste of space

It's already been suggested re. moving the front door and in the first instance you could change just the garage door for one that is split into a door / flip door, so you enter via the garage into the kichen. Cheap first step to converting the space properly.

This is the layout of my house. We had a double garage so converted the one.
Our dining table is pushed to the wall allowing us to walk through to the kitchen.

Now this is something that might work... the original kitchen needs updating anyway. Thank you for your idea I wouldn't have never come up with that plan.

It's worked well for us I have a huge table seats up to 10 that's pushed to the left side with benches under. Then kitchen all along the back

Going for a second viewing for the.house seen. Will be shown around by the owner. Fingers crossed this house will be my forever home!!!

Exciting!

Decided not to go ahead with the house. Won't be putting an offer through after second viewing. It's going to cost us too much to make changes.😕😌 So will just wait and keep.looking for the right one too come along.

I know you've potentially written it off, but how accessable is the kitchen door from the outside? I have a similar layout without the garage and use the kitchen door as the main entrance and only use the front door occasionally. Works much better to access the rest of the house via the kitchen rather than having people traipsing muddy shoes through the living room.