Kitchen diner office layout

[chanobear]

Hi
I’m hoping someone might be able to help. Do you think we have enough space in the house to make a nice kitchen diner (we are a family of 4) plus an office (which needs to be 3m x 2.5m). We are able to knock down the conservatory area and re-build an extension (3m out) and going the full width of house. Happy to reconfigure the whole area. I’m just wondering with the office space required, will there be enough room for a decent kitchen diner? Thank you!

I should have added, we are keeping the lounge separate.

The dining room is large. Could you open up the dining room but have the lounge end as the office? Does the office need to be enclosed? Mine isn’t. The new extension could then be kitchen/dining with partial use of the office area.

We don’t have our office area looking like a traditional office. So no office chairs or office desks. Why does it need to be that size?

Alternatively, I would have the old Kitchen as a utility and put the office where the conservatory is but nick some of the kitchen space. It would then get light from the new extension.

I think you need to decide how much of the extension you are prepared to have as office because you have no side windows. So it’s limited regarding where you put an office in the core of the house if you want natural daylight.

You’re going to struggle is the office has to be that big and enclosed. Is there any option for a garden office?

I think it'll be fine you just want an.open plan kitchen diner. If you want space for a sofa and TV area as well, in the open plan room, then you'd struggle.
Basically make the area currently taken up by the conservatory into the office space. You have plenty of space left for a kitchen with dining area.

The problem with a closed off office that isn’t useable as a decent sized room for anything else is that it limits the house regarding flow and the feeling of spaciousness. The extension would open up space at the back of the house but over 2.5m of it will be office. Why have a wall? Just have it open and be creative with furniture and fittings.

Maybe they need privacy or a space to see clients (counselling etc)

Hi, thanks for the ideas. I’d like to have the kitchen diner in the extension part at the back of the house overlooking garden but yes you’re right, if the office is in the middle and enclosed you do lose the flow and that was a concern of mine. The office is used by my husband as a music studio so it’s good if it can get closed off to reduce noise in the evening (and it always ends up looking like a tip with leads everywhere!!) but maybe it should be flexible with open/closed doors. Or perhaps if it was a bit smaller it could go where the kitchen is now and then an L-shape kitchen diner?

Presentingpercy, do you mean have the office where the dining room is now but just using a bit of it? The end nearest to lounge?

Oh yes, I hadn’t thought about windows and the fact that there wouldn’t be any at side of house (of course). Hmm...

Could the current lounge become the music studio and then open up the dining room with extention to become kitchen diner/family room, with some pocket doors so you can have an enclosed TV area at night?
Current kitchen becomes utility.

Which direction does the front face?

Now you have said music studio and not office, I think that makes a difference. It cannot be open plan can it?

I would get a garden studio. Get him out of the house. Or..... Do you have a garage? Convert that? Build a studio on the back of it? I think in a relatively small house it’s an indulgent luxury.