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Kitchen without door to garden

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SellingDilemma · 17/07/2020 11:02

I am looking for some opinions please. My kitchen currently has a lean-to built off it which has a door to the garden and a door into the garage. I am looking at having the lean-to rebuilt so it’s part of the house, and part of the garage converted into a second living room/garden room and a utility. The garage already has double doors into the garden, as does the dining room (which is open plan with the kitchen). I am thinking I could get away with just a big window in the new ‘lean-to’, as there are already 2 other routes into the garden. It felt a bit overkill having a third door (it’s not as if it’s a big garden either!). What are your thoughts? Would you find it odd not to have a door directly from the kitchen into the garden? (I’ve attached a rough floor plan - ignore the mess up on the doors Smile )

Kitchen without door to garden
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optimisticpessimist01 · 17/07/2020 19:00

I presume the new garden room would keep the doors to the garden then?
I don't think its necessary at all and I would agree that it'd be overkill, but I'd decorate the window a bit (plants, shelves, radiator cover or something) so it doesn't feel like a dull, dead space but I agree that 3 doors to the back garden is a bit too much

SellingDilemma · 18/07/2020 11:22

Thanks for your thoughts. Yes the garden room would keep the double doors, so there would still be 2 ‘routes’ into the garden. I’m thinking of having the lean-to built a little further out to create an alcove type space for shelving (that’s the liney bit next to the window).

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clearsommespace · 18/07/2020 11:28

Our kitchen doesn't have a door to the back garden. It's not a problem and it didn't cross my mind to have this as a criteria when house hunting.
The kitchen gives onto the dining room which gives onto the garden. When it's nice enough to eat outside we just walk a bit further. Smile

WhatKatyDidNxt · 18/07/2020 11:30

Our kitchen has no door and it’s fine. It’s too small for one really anyway

RandomMess · 18/07/2020 11:35

I have had 3 homes in a row where the kitchen doesn't have a door into the garden, not an issue!

crimsonlake · 18/07/2020 11:36

I viewed a house without a kitchen door to access the garden, a few times in fact. I was put off by the lack of door in the kitchen and did not want to traipse through the patio doors in the dining room to take rubbish outside or simply to access the garden.
It did not help matters that they had converted the garage and you could not access the back down the side of the house.

EggysMom · 18/07/2020 11:38

Our house has no door from the kitchen, you have to either walk down the hall to the front door, or thru the lounge/diner and use the french doors. My parents house has no outside door from the kitchen either. I can't say that it's something that has ever bothered me.

betteliefsen · 18/07/2020 11:39

We have a door from the kitchen to the garden, it's not been opened in years because we store stuff in front of it like bins or ironing board etc

SellingDilemma · 18/07/2020 12:04

That’s really useful to hear that most people don’t think it’s a problem. I think every house I’ve lived in has had a door from the kitchen so I thought that was the norm!

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patas · 18/07/2020 14:33

My parents had a large house with a large ultity room off the kitchen which had the back door to the garden.
The actual kitchen didn't have a door to the garden.

I need a door to the garden in my kitchen because I'm always burning things 😁 and need to fling open the door to get rid of the smell - having said that I'm having an extension and that will mean my kitchen won't have direct access to the garden, might have to invest in a super-duper extractor fan!

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 18/07/2020 14:37

I live in a townhouse, my kitchen is on the 3rd floor, now that's odd Grin

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