building a utility on the bit of the garden that gets the most sun....

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We really want a utility room off the kitchen. But the obvious place to put it is on the patch of garden that gets the most sun during the day.

We could put it in a darker bit of the garden but we'd have a glass walled extension/living room with a utility at the end.

Can you post a floorplan? There may be a way of getting a utility room in without extending over the best bit of garden or having it at the end.

Here’s the floor plan.

The idea is to have the utility coming off the left of the kitchen. The conservatory will be replaced by a room that’ll slightly more extend into the garden and walls in snug and kitchen knocked through.

Could you knock a doorway through to the snug off the hall further forward then block off the old door to snug and door between the hall and the mini hall bit (possibly downstairs loo?) then turn that area under the stairs & section of hall into a lootility area? Keep the door off the kitchen to access it?

Could do but there’d be no daylight. No windows in the snug. So could d9 internal glazing.

I'd replace the conservatory with an extension, knock through into the kitchen to make a kitchen diner and have a roof lantern or velux windows in the new extension roof. Take a corner of the new big kitchen - probably the bottom right closest to the hall - for a utility room. There's a bathroom directly above so plumbing and drains are likely to be nearby. Turn the window into a door for direct access from the garden.

I like that idea. The kitchen isn’t huge. So there’d be a kind of strip of kitchen. But that could be used for something.

I think it would be worth getting in touch with a space planner or architect to get the most out of the space - if you don't have doors where the conservatory doors are now, you can put the new kitchen on the other side of the bigger space. You could also look at knocking the large hall cupboard through to a utility room next door, but you'd need to be sure the space was properly planned and used.

We've got an architect doing the drawings. They aren't terribly imaginative but he's very practical, experienced, and v good at telling me when something would be lovely, but too much money for what benefit we would get.

He's a very pragmatic man.

Top up what your architect has done with a good concept planner like Karen at OnePlan. She's fab. And normal IYSWIM

Good idea. 8 was thinking of doing that.