What to do with wasted space if extend kitchen

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I've made a rough plan of a new kitchen if we ever get round to affording an extension (everyone needs a hobby) but if we put a downstairs toilet in, it feels like most of the space that was the original kitchen will be wasted. Maybe it doesn't matter as long as the new space fits in everything I want. What could I do with this space (red circle)? Hope the picture is readable - no washing machine as it's staying under the stairs. Any suggestions welcome.

Bookshelf for cookbooks?
Build a cupboard for ironing board/hoover etc?

Small round table?

(by the way, why is your dishwasher beside the hob instead of beside the sink as is usual?)

Feels like there's not enough room for a table as the doors would be in the way... bookshelf could be a nice idea. Not given a great deal of thought to location of appliances - my current dishwasher is next to the oven - no where else for it. Suppose it could be next to the sink instead - is that the best place for it?

Larder? If you make the door open the other way?

And yes agree with PP-dishwasher next to sink

I would do a bookshelf and a big potted (fake) plant

Back to the drawing board - could definitely have the door not opening into the kitchen and a bloody big plant! Thanks

Thinner (wall units) cupboards floor to ceiling? Top rows for stuff you use less, middle for everyday pantry items and lower for heavier items.

You would then need fewer cupboard elsewhere so the end one that says baking have as a floor to ceiling cupboard for ironing board/hoover/mop etc.

Dishwasher next to sink is usually cheapest and easiest for plumbing, as well as making sense for scraping plates.

Do you not need the red circle space for the doors in the pic? Will there be 2 doors opening as in the pic or something else? If one of them is external I would maybe put a few hooks on the wall and perhaps a shoe rack, but nothing more. The space will feel more generous if the thresholds are clear.

Is the little empty square at the bottom the downstairs loo? Would be a bit weird to have a loo opening directly into the kitchen. Is there no other way of configuring it?

Do you really want a toilet in the corner of your kitchen, though? I think I’d be inclined to make that end a separate utility room with the cloakroom entered via the utility room - more privacy and a greater level of separation. You don’t have to move the washing machine if you don’t want to - you could put a cupboard for your ironing board, vacuuum cleaner etc in there, coat racks, shoe racks, recycling boxes, for example - all those useful but slightly scruffy things it would be nice to have out of sight of the kitchen.

The 2 doors in the red circle are to a new downstairs loo and into the hallway so not external. Not 100% comfortable with the toilet in the kitchen but nowhere else to put one if we want a downstairs loo. Having googled it, I don't think they can go under the stairs any more as newly built ones need to be accessible. If we don't have the loo there it will probably become a dining area. Always have to compromise on something I guess!

Is it actually legal to have a toilet straight into a kitchen, I thought they had to go into a utility room?

Will see if a separate utility area would work - can potentially extend out further to make a longer narrowish space and fit a fridge in the new section but there's no room to go the other way to make it more square. Thanks for suggestions everyone. Lots to consider!

Stuck apparently it is now as long as there's a sink in there.

Toilet in kitchen giving plenty of people the heebie-jeebies though 🤔

Is there a room behind the fridge?

Any way you could turn that red circle space into part of the hallway? So move the hallway door to be next to the bin area, so the loo is opening into the hall?

The living room is behind the fridge. The kitchen section with all the cupboards is the extension. Extending the hall could work here - would really like another toilet in the house as we only have one bathroom currently and 2 DS - small at the mo but I remember (not fondly) sharing a one bathroom house with 2 brothers.

Is that door to the ba k garden? Use the space for boot shelves etc, if that's the case. You also need somewhere for your bin, anyhow, unless you have it hidden in a cupboard.

Also don't see a radiator or towel rail on that plan.

Pick that's because we don't currently have a radiator in the kitchen so didn't think to add one. Current kitchen is arctic in winter.

could the loo be thinner and reach the hall door way - then move the fridge or cupboard over the the new gap and have a small table

We have a corner of our kitchen with a loo in it. Plenty of people thought it was odd.but actually it's fine. And very handy! As long as you have a sink in there jobs a gudden

You can have loo directly off kitchen the two doors rule was taken off years ago.
Don’t need to cram something in every sq inch - some empty space with a nice piece of artwork could work, especially as you have two doors there otherwise it will get awkward.