Dining hall?

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I'm looking to move from our pokey little flat in the next year or so and have been looking to see what I can possibly afford. I have a teenage DS and top of my list is a bigger bedroom for him and space to put a dining table.

Anyway, I don't want to overstretch myself financially and I have a seen a couple of flats like this one www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73749791.html which are in budget, but lacking dining space.

My question is, would it be weird to use the hallway as a dining room in this type of flat?

Thanks.

That hall is enormous, and the kitchen leads off it. Go for it.

When I read your post I thought defo not, but actually it would work in that flat, just dress it as a dining room and it will become one.

What a bizarre layout! Yes it would work well as a dining room!

Thank you! It does increase my options to know that visitors wouldn't think I was a complete weirdo! I do think it could be a lovely, cosy space.

We had a dining hall in an old flat. It was only used as a dining room once!

That’s a lovely flat - a dining table to the one wall could work

What do you mean @1forsorrow2forjoy? Did you have another dining space, or did it just not feel right?

@GrannyMac2018 I think the layout of the doors mean the table would need to be centred in the hall, which I think I'd prefer anyway.

This is all hypothetical though. I do really like that flat, but not moving yet, sadly.

It's a huge hallway but with all the doorways it could be tricky! Is there a wall it can go against those photos seem deceptive?

No, this is the floor plan.

Yeah I looked at the floorplan, the photos make the kitchen look big but it isn't particularly tbh.

My father had a flat with a largish hallway, and he kept his dining table there, it was an extendable one so went flat to the wall, and looked fine.

Lovely flat. I wonder if you could move the kitchen door along towards the bedroom to give yourself a corner to put a table there (in case you don't want the table taking over the hall)?

Not sure if this is exactly same layout but you could extend kitchen slightly up to level of living room door and have dining table within kitchen?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=POSTCODE%5E644410&minPrice=90000&maxPrice=125000&minBedrooms=2&radius=0.5#prop73164491

@SwedishEdith your link doesn't work, but wondered if you've tried to link to this? It was another that I thought could possibly work with the table in the hall, but your idea would maybe work too (and cheaper again, although no ensuite which is a definite bonus with a teen DS)

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64721602.html

Although that ones top floor, which is what I'm leaving, so perhaps not!

You could get one of those fold up tables that doubles up as a console table for the hall and get it out when people come round ?

If table fits in there (perhaps a round one) then I think it's a fab idea. I've seen flats where this has been done and yes, it does work.

Ah, sorry, it was this one www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73164491.html

But, having looked at a few, I think this has bigger kitchen originally.

Lots of lovely flats in Gourock !

Any good? Top floor but look at the view

Yes, i really like that one too, and there's a few in that street, but mostly all at the very top of my budget or top floor, sadly!

I'd never heard of Gourock before and now I want to live there!

I think it's great and a wonderful location (and the dining hall would work well) but it says sold stc?