Office or utility room?

[debtaylor58]

We're about to start a kitchen side return extension in our small victorian semi detached house.The bathroom ,which is adjacent to the kitchen ,will be moved upstairs.We're not sure whether to convert the bathroom into a utility room or an office.Space is at a premium in the kitchen conversion.The least expensive option is a utility room as there is a boiler , toilet and plumbing already in place. However we have a lovely garden and would love some French doors to make a sight line from the front door to the back of the house. The dimensions are too small to make it a dining area. A quiet office would be lovely but means jamming the white goods into the smallish kitchen . HELP !!!

How much would you be using the office i.e. will someone be working from home regularly?

I think with the setup you already have there, I would have a downstairs toilet and a utility room there.

I'd go for utility myself. I don't have one in my current house and I miss my lovely old huge utility like crazy. It was great for dog, boots, coats, the loo, drying washing, storing rubbish, hiding stuff.

And space is at a premium in your kitchen conversion then that's another good reason!

Another vote for utility room. I've lived in a house where a downstairs bathroom was moved upstairs and the room converted to a utility room. If you plan it carefully, you can use the existing holes in the wall for running pipework outside to the drains and the hole for the toilet soil pipe can become the tumble dryer vent, etc. I would also fit a sink with draining board in there if you can - saves using the kitchen sink for messy jobs and any hand washing you might do.

Add some wall units to match the kitchen for storing stuff out of the kitchen.

You might even have some extra space to play with once the bathroom is moved because there normally have to be two doors between a kitchen and a bathroom (I think it's if you have a toilet in there) and there will be no need for that once it's gone.

Utility room.

Utility.

Can you put your laundry equipment in the upstairs bathroom or double up the machines into a cupboard upstairs and have a bigger kitchen. Double doors to the outside sounds like a lovely idea.

Utility room.

Utility room unless you work from home. If you would actually use the office regularly, then that would be better with an upstairs utility room.