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?

It depends by what you mean about 'make more modern'.

Things could be improved considerably by just putting in a better designed kitchen. Or by making the dining room a galley kitchen and making the kitchen the eating space. Or by making the dining room a utility/pantry space and moving as much storage in there as possible so that you could fit a table into the kitchen. Block up the door into the living room as that will give you more wall space, and make a new door to the kitchen from the hall, opposite the entrance to the stairs. You could also steal a few feet from the living room.

I would get rid if the kitchen room and have one large lounge/kitchen/dining room space. I'd then turn the dining room into a utility and the store room in to a downstairs loo.

I'd also get some kind of living pod for the garden

Why not look at this
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42115037.html

You'll still get DC into Fairlawn primary and be close to Hornimann and its actually a lovely house.

Or this

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/full-description/property-27824505.html

Again will get DC into Fairlawn.

Both are bigger and better value than the one in the Brownings.

That second one is so narrow. If you're after the size of rooms that many 60/70s properties have then that is unlikely to cut it. The first one is alright though it's top heavy on bedrooms versus reception space.

Here's an excellent example of how someone has renovated one of the Dulwich Estate townhouses. www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30585705 From looking at the pictures, I assume the kitchen is where the garage once was. I don't think you're allowed to change the external facade of these properties.

Pricier but they've done an excellent job with the house. It's the best layout of one of these houses that I've seen and in my recent mid century modern obsession, I've looked at quite a few.