If I post some pictures of my tiny kitchen that has THREE doors leading into it, will you tell me if there is anything I can do with it?

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It's not a teeny tiny room, not huge either, but the workspace is rubbish as there are three doors leading into my kitchen (4 if you count French double doors) so any potential room for workspace is cut off.

I would like to fit a new kitchen but I want to know if there is anything we can do to maximise our room. Currently as you can see from the pictures I have no preparation room. There is no storage space worth talking about. Through the door to the right of the cooker is a utility room which again is very small.

Wondering if anyone has any ideas? I'm not very hopeful, I've thought and thought about what I could do, but I'm not great at visualising the end result of things being moved around.

Sorry for the mess of the kitchen, it's just me and baby today so tidying up hasn't happened!

I have a strange dislike of moving the sofa back against the French doors as it makes me feel claustrophobic! I just don't like the idea of a sofa rammed against a door, it'd be great if the French door area was just a wall.

Capitola I love that!

Yay, if you're swapping it all round does that mean I won?

I meant adding an additional set of units to the ones under the window. Where you have the freestanding unit you could put in some additional cupboards and work tops at 90 degrees separating the two areas of the kitchen. Although flipping the kitchen is probably a better idea!

I love love the banquet area! That's gorgeous!

Do you think that would work if I swapped the kitchen around and put that idea where the cooker is now?

Moving the water and electricity can be a bit of a pain but it's certainly doable / done.

I don't think you need to move the kitchen area though, it sounds to me like you should actually knock the kitchen diner into the sitting room and be done with. It's handy to have the kitchen close to the utility, I'd guess. You could add an island*, move the dining area into the corner were the sofa now is and rearrange the sitting area for more seating.

*or a run of units out into to room facing the dining area.

If your dh likes looking through the doors he isn't going to want to move the sofa!

Do you have enough budget to maybe widen the doorway so you have two rooms in a way. Then sofa in living room, kitchen in sofa corner with lovely island and table at the opposite end

I don't think you have enough wall space over the two corners to do a banquet unless you close the French doors off

Yes, you could move it to the other end and have it in an L shape.

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The banquet area is a very nice idea but I think it'd feel quite busy and be generally rather impractical, in day to day life, to have it between two doors like that.

Couldn't you get rid of the sofa and put more cabinets there. And then have a long and slimm-ish island in the missing with stools either side? Could also hang pans etc above.

Could you change the French doors to bi fold or so they open the other way out?

I'm not very good at this, have no spatial awareness

snowman I don't really think I get your second point, widen which doorway?

In the middle I meant.

Also didn't realise there was a second page with better ideas lol, love that banquet area!

The French doors - if it is a pokey room you don't really use why not bash through and join the two rooms. Then dh can sit in what was the lounge and look out the window!

Sliding doors between kitchen and living room? Save space, keep the light?

Right I'm going to post a picture of what's on the the other side of the French doors.

I'm not sure I want a totally open plan area (even thought it kind of is already) as I'd feel everyone is just living on top of each other.

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If it were my home I'd prioritise getting that wall out to as great an extent as is possible. It sounds to me like you already try to use the two rooms as one area anyway.

I'd happily live with a bodged floor and temporary kitchen island to be able do it, I think.

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Yes sliding doors are a very good idea!

What would happen if we all wanted to watch different things on TV?!!

yy, getting the wall out would probably give you more of a feeling of not living on top of one another.

Work out how much space (in terms of actual, usable space rather than thoroughfare) those doors and bit of wall are costing you. From the photos it looks like at least 6 or 8 square meters!

I think you need to have a good time about how you live in your house

If you spend the vast majority of your time in the kitchen and just use the lounge for tv watching then I would knock through

Dh and I agonised for ages about the layout we were going for but we worked out how we loved in the existing space first and have tweaked the house so it favours that

Agree with mrs lettuce

The lounge feels small because the sofa can't go against the wall.

For starters, de-junk the workspace, OP. I've just done this in my kitchen and it's made the world of difference. I've kept the essentials and pushed them right back against the wall to maximise prep room. Because you're short on current space, could you buy things for the walls like a spatula holder and a kitchen roll holder? Like these and these? They'd get them of the worktops for you. Decide what you absolutely need (kettle, toaster, etc) and move things like your microwave and steriliser (if you're using one) into the utility.

Long term, ditch the sofa and line that wall with more cabinets and worktops.

We do sit in the kitchen, on the sofa, most of the time.

Only time we are in lounge is to watch TV some evenings when we light the fire.

What kind of floor would I put down if it was all open plan?

How often are those double doors closed? For what sorts of length of time?

Working out what one pays for each square meter of ones home can be quite, erm, illuminating! Mortgage per month divided by number of square meters in the house = price per month, per square meter. I found it made me a lot less tolerant of dead space.

So, yeah, adding sliding doors would have it's advantages. It'd also eat a load of space, a wee bit less than opening doors but they'd really not win you enough cost to be worth the investment. Well, at a guess.

To me that doorway just needs to be obliterated! Blocked up completely or the whole wall gone. No half measures!