How would you change this ground floor layout?

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We have had an offer accepted on this place - the details are old because we saw it and had the offer accepted before it went on the open market.

I'm tempted, when we move in, to knock through between the kitchen and living room to make a really big kitchen diner, and block off the door between the current dining room and kitchen, creating a long thin living room. I'm also thinking about replacing the flat felt roof over the front five foot of the ground floor with a sloping glass roof for extra light (the front of the house is north facing).

WWYD? Is what we are thinking about feasible - and is it likely to be very expensive? I think we could manage up to 20k without getting a loan.

It would make a lovely kitchen diner, but personally I wouldn't want a living room of only 8ft wide.

Would be better to knock the kitchen and lounge together

Sorry misread the op

The other thing we could do is also make the hallway open plan to create a larger living room... I don't know how many of the walls are load bearing though.

I agree 8ft is too narrow for a lounge.

I'd probably split the dining room in have and make the half that has a window to the front of the property a plan room or office. Then knock the walls between the kitchen/dining/lounge down as much as is feasible, making one large open plan room.

Have - half.

Can you take the building out on the ground floor the extra two feet to the boundary so you could keep the current layout? You could have a sloping roof with velux windows to add light.

A lot depends on your needs and how you'd use it.
I'd have a big open plan kitchen/diner/living room and turn the current dining room into a playroom, but you may not need that.

Without knowing the makeup of your family I can only say what I'd do.
Depending on the cost of supporting steel needed when you knock through and on the cost of drainage, then my idea would be to relocate the kitchen to the current dining room and arrange it L shaped around the exterior walls. Then have a combined living/dining room at the back. I'd want to put extra windows in to this new open plan room.

You need to get some ideas and estimates from good local builders and then have a good think about what's going to work and yet still be cost effective.