Kitchen/ diner / family room layout

[rosina38]

Hoping an imaginative person can help...

We are looking to make our kitchen a more useable space. We currently have a strange shaped kitchen and with the amount of doors we are struggling to make a decent seating space. Ideally we want to make it a kitchen / family room maybe with a breakfast bar/ sofa and a dining table

So we are looking to knock through our kitchen to the dining area and then build a wall between our current lounge and dining room to make a big space. If you did this, how and where would you lay out the kitchen given all the doors?!

Thank you

Depends how long that long side with the garden doors is (couldn't quite read the number) but I would definitely want to box off the downstairs loo and door to create a utility space.

Then you could either keep that back section as a small breakfast /eating area that's open to the kitchen but not totally in it, or separate it off to create a 6" snug or home office.

Keeping the kitchen more or less in the small place will reduce costs a lot.

I'd block off the kitchen door to the side of the house, then if possible could you walk through the cupboard under the stairs to get to your loo? Then you have freed up the walls to the side and opposite your garden which is your prime real estate for most of your kitchen units. Then you can knock through the wall to the dining area, a d I'd reintroduce a wall to your living area so you have a quieter cozier space. You'd ideally have a utility space to make a kitchen diner work better, but I can't quite work out where that'd go too!

I’d also knock through to the dining room and close off the sitting room. I’d lose the side door to the kitchen. I’d probably steal a bit of the garage for a small utility and to reconfigure the door to the loo.

I’d say it’s definitely worth paying an architect to measure up and draw some plans as you’ll get a much more useable space that way.

You could also consider getting rid of the door from the hall to the kitchen, but would then need to walk through the living room to get to the kitchen. I would consider moving the kitchen to the current dining room, along 2 walls, then perhaps a breakfast bar where the current wall is.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. All good ideas and I really appreciate you taking your time

Depending on your budget, you could just block the single external kitchen door, put a door to the garage in the square at the side of the toilet, and also move the toilet door too (putting the sink on a side wall). Then you've opened up a large corner of the kitchen.

You could also knock down the wall inbetween the kitchen and dining room, and build another to give you a separate lounge, but that's more expensive and messier!