We moved into this house last year. We're going to have the wall between the kitchen and dining room knocked through, to form a large kitchen/dining/family room.
The kitchen current doesn't get much light - smallish window. Door to a utility room on the same wall as the window (south facing).
In an ideal world we would knock down the utility room and build extension with patio doors, slanted roof, lots of light.
But to keep costs down, we're thinking of either making the window wider or putting in a small patio door and then blocking up the door to the utility room. The utility only really has a washer and drier that we need on a daily basis. There is plenty of room for these in the kitchen. So the utility could become more of an 'outhouse'.
Any thoughts?? Would it look really odd to have an old utility room not accessed through kitchen? Would extra light from patio doors outweight this?