I would love, love, love to do this as I love our little terraced house but the kitchen is just so narrow, especially as there are now 4 of us and whenever we have people over (which we do a lot - friends, family, kids' friends, etc) there is zero space for people to sit and eat, and I just feel that a decent-size kitchen would make such a huge difference. It would also mean we might never have to move (well at least until the kids grow up, which is a long time away) which would be amazing.
Trouble is, we live in SW London and the price I've heard quoted for side-return extensions makes my hair curl! Would it really cost in excess of £100k? There's just no way we could ever raise that. Even half of that would be pushing it. Our current dimensions are 7.2m x 2.45m so 14.4m2, and we'd be going out by 2m (no change in length) so new footprint would be 7.2m x 4.45m so 34m2.
There is no difference in levels to worry about, everything is on the same level, and could happily live without bifold doors so just have ordinary French doors. Would like some glass in the roof for light, but doesn't need to be all glass or anything like that. Also happy with an IKEA kitchen and have no special desire for expensive fixtures and fittings. We could also keep current appliances, including the oven (it's a range cooker, so can be moved about and doesn't need integrating).
So... any ideas what we might realistically be able to do it for?
TIA!