Has anybody moved a kitchen to another room?

[Gintime74]

We have a galley kitchen in a Victorian terrace with small lobby leading to a bathroom . I would like to move the kitchen to the dining room which would create a good sized kitchen diner. I would then turn the existing kitchen into a utility room. Has anybody done this successfully and roughly how much did it cost for the plumbing etc?

I haven't but a couple of houses where I live have had their front rooms converted into a kitchen.

I think if you're ripping the place apart anyway it won't affect the price much.

However, would you have the space to turn the galley kitchen into a utility and a dining room? I imagine losing a reception room will affect the price of the house.

I want to do this too, sorry I can't advise but I'm interested in the answers you get!

Yes, we did it. Both rooms were being gutted anyway so doing the plumbing and electrics for kitchen needs didn't add a huge amount. It is hard to put a number on what was specific to moving the kitchen. I suppose that tells you it wasn't the deciding factor.

The biggest cost increases came from the moved kitchen being bigger so more tiles, more cabinets, more flooring, more lights, more worktop etc.

Our kitchen was a small galley and what could be described as a small breakfast room. We knocked down the wall between galley part and living room, made this into our kitchen diner. Breakfast room part is now the utility and living room is where dining room was.

We did this in our last house, knocked through a kitchen/diner and moved the kitchen into what was the dining room. Plumbing costs were part of a bigger project but were about £750 IIRC but it would depend where your drainage is etc. and whether there is enough of a drop on the pipes or if you'd need to move drains. If you've got your washing machine in the utility that should make it a bit easier.

The other thing to be aware of is moving a gas pipe might not be quite so straightforward and in the end we chose to go with an induction hob, which to be fair you might decide you prefer any way.

We moved the kitchen to the dining room and knocked through the wall and added an extension on to the back. Reason we moved the kitchen was so it was at the end of this one big room rather than splitting it in two. It works well and I don't think it's that difficult re plumbing, it's just a matter of a water connection. Our kitchen now sits at the front of a Victorian house so we look out over the street. Whilst it may seem odd at first, it's actually great. We were getting lots of work done - replumbed, rewired, extension, walls knocked through so the actual cost of a water connection is negligible in the final cost. Like Solla, we never bothered moving the gas and also went for induction as it's more efficient and safer. I have never been more impressed than I am with an induction hob. It's faster than gas in my opinion.

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Yes, we did it. Both rooms were being gutted anyway so doing the plumbing and electrics for kitchen needs didn't add a huge amount. It is hard to put a number on what was specific to moving the kitchen. I suppose that tells you it wasn't the deciding factor.

The biggest cost increases came from the moved kitchen being bigger so more tiles, more cabinets, more flooring, more lights, more worktop etc.

Exactly this. It was largely the kitchen cost itself for us. The additional work and materials specific to the new kitchen will vary according to things like whether you have water access, access to waste drainage etc in your new location. If you do (like us) then just a couple of hundred pounds covered it. If not, it may be significantly more.

We did this but got a bit lucky as we had access to all the pipework as we were gutting 2 rooms. The kitchen was initially at the back of the house - and a doorway (without a door) leading through to what you could call a dining room at the front.

It made sense to switch it around so the diner could have patio doors onto the garden. We took down the supporting "doorway" and got some Internal Bifold Doors which made all the difference - as they were glazed to let the light run through the house but kept the separation.

I wouldn't have liked the thought of moving the kitchen too far. As I say, luckily - we just wanted open plan living. Definitely worth getting a plumber in to give you some guidance and put your mind at ease.

At the minute, the trades seem to be stacked out so getting them to come is half the difficulty . Best of luck!

We've done this: moved the kitchen to the middle room as part of having a side return extension (the old kitchen then doubled in width to become a living/dining space).

There were some added costs for moving water and gas (c£1,200 IIRC).

Not sure if this is relevant to your layout, but we turned the bathroom lobby into a very compact utility space (boiler on one side where the back door used to be, stacked WM and TD on the other side, and door to the bathroom in the middle). We had the new exit to the garden via French doors in the side extension. Not the cheapest project, but meant we kept two reception rooms as well as gaining a new big kitchen.

It sounds like it could be affordable. Love the idea of blocking current back door to create utility area, and putting french doors in current dining room.
Galley kitchen is 2m x 4m could possibly turn it into a cosy sitting area?

I suppose it depends on whether you think you’d use the space like that. It could also work as a nice reading room / music room - lots of space for shelving/storage and a couple of nice chairs, say.

For my family, I’d probably use it as a play room and have storage benches / Kallax units to stash toys away. Maybe open up the entrance to the room but with double glazed doors. Just depends on what works for you!

We are moving our kitchen in a Victorian house too.

Plumbing quote is aprox £1800 as they need to plumb in new kitchen so move the pipes, and new utility room with toilet. Move and install new radiators , and move the thermostat

Then we need them to get rid of all the old pipes as that room is the new living room, including the gas

Only electric quote is about £2400 as kitchen will be all electric, 2x oven, induction job, extractor, need new electrics for lights and plugs, utility room and extractor in toilet

Then new lighting in old kitchen and dining room. External lights

And we need a new consumer unit

Love the idea of a cosy den.

Moving the kitchen was a right pita for us and meant other upgrades had to wait a few years. I do not regret it. The kitchen is the hub in our house. Probably every bit of key personal information from my kids has been shared in that kitchen or in the car. So many big conversations as we pottered around in the kitchen. I would do it again in heartbeat.

We did this. We moved the kitchen to entirely the other side of the house - as well as the boiler.

At the same time we knocked down two walls to make one large room (three rooms into one) and huge bifolds across it all. So this was quite a bit for total works

However, our laundry room was already on that side of the house so we had drainage there to hook up to. There was also gas connection from when there used to be a gas fire (fire place gone when we bought the house but gas line still there).

If where you want to put the kitchen shares a wall where your old kitchen is, so easy to connect gas, water, drainage, and not knocking done walls, it won’t be too costly.