Which floorplan please? A or B?

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This is A

In B, what is against the wall in the corridor bit opposite the shower room?

A definitely

Can you have bifolding doors between the kitchen and the windowless room, or between the two reception rooms, so that the windowless room gets as much light as possible? Then you can shut it off if someone sleeping in there or something? What will you use it for?

In every other respect

In every other respect b is good. The utility/ bathroom arrangement is better and the kitchen feels like a better space

Storage, Swedish.

Notheretoargue, we will use it as a playroom/music room when I can be bothered to learn how to play the piano

Oh if you’re looking for resale then b, definitely. I would use reception 2 as a playroom/ guest room, but would mostly care about the bigger kitchen. Like the suggestion of angled skylights as well.

What are the dimensions of the dining part beyond the windowless room in B?

I was thinking of having bifolds/patio doors on the whole L shape around the patio, so taking out the pillar and wall and replacing with floor to ceiling glass and sink moved to back wall (end part of L).

Thoughts?

We've got a windowless room as have our neighbours. They don't have Velux windows in the extension part and their windowless room (that starting to sound strange and sinister now [grin[) is quite gloomy.

I can imagine, it is a bit of a negative......

That windowless room in B would be horrid. Last house had one and even though it was continuous with the front room and had an internal window to the kitchen which had its own big south facing window opposite the internal window, it was too dark to do without the light on 95% of the time.

Anyone got any better suggestions for a new plan. Apparently, MN is full of geniuses?!

Surely the only other thing you could do is swap the l bit of the kitchen with the windowless room, so that your sink, cooker etc are in that bit of the room. The playroom/ music room would be off the kitchen and would look out into the garden.

Is there a reference to a skylight over the utility in plan B? If yes, could you flip the utility/shower room onto the current Reception 2 and move the garage access to be a door in the hall?

That way you'd still have a, smaller (?) second reception, but with better natural light.

I'd go for B purely because dh teaches music from home do the two reception rooms would be very useful.

Otherwise I like the layout of A but the reception room needs to be bigger.

Why don’t you use plan B, put the dining area in reception 2, the kitchen across the back, the shower where the utility is, the utility above the shower room (so to speak) and the guest room / play room in the little nub on the end. That way, your dining room is fully open to the kitchen for maximum light, the shower is accessible off a small hall, so not off the kitchen, the utility is off the kitchen and you’ve got a lovely light room in the space looking onto the garden that can be closed off is needed. Haven’t got a pen / paper to hand but hopefully you get my drift

Should say the garage access would then be off the hall. The kitchen would have a bank of units either side with an island in the middle.

Floor plan one but combine the two reception rooms with a sliding partition if need it for sone reason.

*B

Ooh good spot by Moonlight. Since you can have skylights on the right hand side then yes - put utility and bathroom in the windowless room and put playroom/guestroom where the utility and bathroom are, benefitting from the skylights.

Are you semi detached on that side - if so you might get permission for a high level window in that room too, on the side wall.

Option B rotate utility and shower room through 90 degrees so each can have a side window. Resize as required.

Then take out internal walls between reception 2 and hall and original the rear wall between reception 2 and extension. These walls are currently an L shape in option B.

I'd be tempted to keep front room (reception 1) as quiet sitting room. So block up wall as shown.

Good luck.

Make the mo window room a cinema

I prefer A. The option of having a downstairs bedroom ensure for guests and the flow of the layout s better. I’m not sure the point of having an extra reception room if it’s not a room you would enjoy. Is there any reason A isn’t bigger?

Also if the guest room has French windows you could have a veranda type bit or some form of shelter with a coffee table etc or patio.

Given the plan to relocate in 5years. I'd go with A but reorganize the kitchen area so you get a family area in there too.

I'm also not keen on the Jack n Jill arrangement for the bathroom. I'd be tempted not to have the door from the study.