Property enthusiasts! Come and tell me what you'd do to this house to get a bigger kitchen ...

[Mintyy]

Love this house (gentle roffle at the bathroom) but kitchen tiny.

What could be done to the kitchen/dining room/front door arrangement to make something more modern?

big roffle at the bathroom :o Easily remedied though.

Not so easy to enlarge the kitchen that I can see though (do they have to shimmy past the fridge freezer to access the dining room?)

Six. Hundred. And. Fifty. Thousand?

I can't see that moving the front door to the Store or dining room would help at all. Um... Turn the dining room into a galley kitchen all along that wall and the existing kitchen wall with the washing machine side of the kitchen as the dining area?

There is a FRIDGE FREEZER in the dining room doorway! And a washing machine UNDER THE HOB, not to mention a carpeted bath.

Anyway, the only way is to move the fridge convert the dining room and extend the kitchen that way, although it would be rather long and thin.

Although I think I'd look to spend 650K on something else, to be honest. Sorry.

Yes the fridge is hilarious. But I love the living room.

If you can find me something else in the area for £650,000 then please do so Clam!

Without extending at the back and bringing all the plumbing etc across, I think that the best thing to do would be to knock the "dining room" (really? Can you actually get a table in there?) through to the store and have a long run of kitchen units along one side of it and use the area that is now the kitchen for a table and chairs. I would knock down the wall between them entirely so they formed a P-shaped room, you could extend the run of units into the new dining area if you wished. You could open up a door into it from the hallway and, if you wanted to keep the reception room separate, close the linking door there.

I love the way they've clearly hoovered the sides of the bath for the Estate Agents pictures .

All I can think of is incorporating the current dining as part of the kitchen/utility room and dining in the reception room.

Does it need to be big if you have a separate dining room and store?

You could possibly lose some of the living room and extend the kitchen out towards the beam on the ceiling.

Actually, I might keep the store as a utility and run the units along into the old kitchen area if I felt there weren't enough space.

I love the way they've clearly hoovered the sides of the bath for the Estate Agents pictures

Yes!

See, I would say that in many houses, and for many families, dining rooms are a waste of space. 95% of the time they're unused, particularly if you can wangle space to eat in the kitchen/sitting room.

Although I do like that sitting room...

Not sure you could get rid of the store - I wonder if that was a way around planning permission as it still looks like a garage door on the front...

I don't think there is vehicular access to the front of the house.

I would forget about the 'dining room' and make that extra kitchen. washing machine, tumble dryer, fridge freezer, etc all in there. Then rip out the existing kitchen and have it redesigned to maximise space. It would be a what do they call it? galley kitchen? but by using both spaces and having the end bit as a pantry, you'd have quite a lot of space. living room looks big enough to have a dining table in one corner of it. Job done.

Could you not just chop a bit off the reception room? It looks like a wall has been taken out at some point and that it has created empty space. Then use the 'dining room' for a utility if poss.

I would also have the kitchen double doors opening out into the reception room and with the sort of hinges that means they would open completely against the walls giving you full use of the current kitchen space. Clever use of the current kitchen would improve it anyway. Ceiling height cupboards, moving out the washing machine etc.

What is your biggest concern over a small kitchen?

Actually, I remember visiting a house once that had shag-pile carpet on the bedroom wall behind the bed. There were greasy stains where two heads had been leaning!

I definitely don't want or need a separate dining room. We don't have one in our current house and wouldn't miss it.

£650K

Can you build on the front garden?

I'd square it off to make the hall bigger where the stairs go up too. So one new wall across the back of the reception room = extra kitchen and hall.

you move the downstair loo to the shed and open out the kitchen into the hall downstairs - but build across between the hall stairs and kitchen so you would end up with a larger kitchen side ways. Then plan the kitchen carefully - that way you get to keep the dinning room and use as whatever room you choose and you keep a down stairs loo