Yummy, yummy house!

[NorthernLurker]

[[http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26988405.html here] I pass this every morning. The kitchen needs extending and the bathroom and master bedroom decor would have to go straight away but otherwise it's damn near perfect.
Just need a few hundred grand to hand.......

[MadBusLady]

Hmm I'm not sure about that. Those grand Victorian reception rooms are really something, and not that common, it would be a shame if they were all turned into shiny spotlighted kitchen/dining/living spaces because of our current fad for that arrangement. I also love larders/odd cupboards off the kitchen and think it's a mistake to knock them out. Probably the single most useful place in our house is the 60s lean-to off the kitchen, all manner of crap gets stuffed in there.

[NorthernLurker]

But look how far it is from the kitchen to the dining room atm - you need several hostess trollies!

[MadBusLady]

Wurrrrl what you could do is put the kitchen in the current breakfast room which would at least make it big enough for a table in the middle, make the current kitchen into a utility room/boot room/office (possibly even dividing it in the process, since there is light on two sides there and those rooms don't need to be very big), and knock a simple doorway between the new kitchen and the dining room.

[SmellsLikeWeenSpirits]

Is that a busy road? And it's very overlooked

Are those your chips? I'll just piss on them

[SmellsLikeWeenSpirits]

Ugh what a ghastly expression

Sorry. Not sure what came over me

[MadBusLady]

I am an urbanite and I love other people's idea of busy roads. Somebody said "busy road" on another house thread not long ago, and I went into streetview, and TBF it probably was busy at badger rush hour.

[Ponders]

I reckon that breakfast room is Breakfast Room Green

[OnTheNingNangNong]

That house is pretty!

I would extend out, tastefully of course. The road looks fairly quiet compared to what's 50ft away from me now.

[Ponders]

sorry, dining room - according to caption - but dining room doesn't have a fireplace according to floorplan. (& house doesn't have a bathroom according to floorplan. who draws these things?)

house is divine, OP. Can you mug a few old ladies for the money?

[Ponders]

oh yes it does. doh!

[NorthernLurker]

I'm going mugging folks tomorrow It's not really over looked. You can't tell from the pictures but it's actually quite a bit higher than the road and houses opposite etc. The road isn't quiet -it's one of the main roads aproaching the city but it's not standing traffic busy either. I wondered about putting the kitchen in the breakfast room too. Would you block up one of the two existing doorways in to the dinig room in that case?

[NorthernLurker]

Or there is the basement - kitchen diner down there?

[pearlgirl]

I'll end driving up that way just to look at it because I'm very nosey. The houses on that bit of the road always look nice to me but I am normally concentrating on remembering which turning to take.

[Inertia]

Ooh it's gorgeous.

I think you'd have to work with the rooms you've got. I would put the kitchen in the breakfast room, put a doorway through from the kitchen to the dining room, and block up any doorways that would then become redundant.

Existing kitchen would become a decent utility room.

Basement is currently a utility space so obviously has services. Looks like there are some windows, but not sure it'd be bright enough for a good kitchen diner- you'd have to excavate a lot of ground. So I'd convert the basement into a guest suite / study.

[NorthernLurker]

Yes I think you're right. Drove past today and any extension is going to be intrusive. I hope the agents are please with the hit rate - I should charge commission.