Please look at this floor plan. Any advice welcome

[mothersdaughter]

Here is the floor plan of our downstairs. We recently have had plans drawn up to extend the kitchen out, knock through the utility wall to create one big square of a space.

Can anyone advise what we can do with the dinning area? It's very narrow and at the moment is just a walk through from the sitting room to the kitchen. I did think we'd put a dinning room table in that space.

However, if a table went in the bigger kitchen, does anyone have any ideas in how we could utilise that dinning space to make it feel part if the sitting room?

I'd take out the wall between the dining room and corridor. It'd still be a thoroughfare but a better and more flexible shape.

Do you have children? There was a thread about a house with a similar layout a couple of weeks ago (I think it was called 'do you have a morning room - might have been breakfast room).

That is the same layout as our previous house except the sitting room and the dining room were divided. There was also access to the sitting room from the hall. Can you create a doorway into the sitting room from the hall so you don't have to walk through the dining room to get to the kitchen? We used the dining room as a playroom, sofa in there plus TV and then all the plastic tastic rubbish hidden away. The sitting room was kind of an adults room (no toys) and where we sat when the children were in bed. The enlarged kitchen will be big enough for a dining table.

If you have little kids - a playroom.
If you have teens, a teens living room.
If you have neither, utility.

If I was you, I'd reinstate both the door and the wall into the living room, and I would make part of the dining room a utility room (doesn't need windows, just an air vent to outside). I would then knock out the rest of the dining room wall to join the space to the kitchen, so the whole back space was a kitchen. Alternatively if you didn't mind not having the utility room space, I would knock out the dining room walls, join it to the kitchen. But I would personally really recommend the utility space. It gives you somewhere to hide bikes, pushchairs, washing, washingmachines etc. Just make sure you put a small sink in as well as a washing machine and dryer because they are massively useful for condensor driers and washing things like muddy wellies.