Kitchen / diner renovation

[Minimonkeysmum]

We are looking to knock through our extended kitchen into our extended living room, and wondered if anyone has done this recently & can share a rough budget? We think it will involve knocking down two supporting walls & redoing the rsj between the original house and extensions (it was done in two parts!)

We don't really know where to begin - we need a vague budget so we can start saving, but don't want to fork out for architectural drawings if it's way out of our budget! Any advice would be very gratefully received!

Anyone?

If doing so would make your entire living space open-plan then I wouldn't do it, especially not if you don't have a separate utility room for the washing machine, etc.

Also if you remove a wall in a kitchen you lose the ability to have kitchen units there and it can really limit what you can do.

Thanks! No, definitely not making the whole thing open plan - we want to put up a wall for a small utility room with boiler and washing machine etc (saves cost of moving boiler), and will be turning existing dining room into our living room.

But we have no idea if we're looking at 20k of work or 50k (or higher!).

At the moment we have very little space for units, so would put in a big island I think. But will be consulting as many kitchen designers as possible first!

We had the original external wall between the kitchen and extension removed and it cost around £1500 including getting a structural engineer to do the calcs. That didn't include plasterboarding and finishing but did include two steels - one for each wall (cavity wall).

Wowfudge- thank you so much, that's really helpful. And much less than I feared (although we are London, so imagine would be higher!)