Is it weird to go through living room to the kitchen...

[intelligentPutty]

Please help settle a 'discussion'!
. We are planning to extend at the back. We thought to add an extra bedroom downstairs but the only way we can see to do so is to block the hall access to the kitchen. It means you'd get to the back of the house via the living room. Or via the back door. I think thatd be fine. Hubby disagrees. Please let me know your thoughts or any other ideas. Pic on the left is now and pic ok the right is my current idea.

[quote thosetalesofunexpected]@intelligentPutty

Its sounds a quiky idea plan on paper.

If that is the only way it will work /create etc then do this op.

Oh by the way I like quikyness.

Quiky means original/or something with character.[/quote]
And there's me thinking quiky was a quick bunk up

OP I think you're wise to look at the plans again. It's true a lot of houses are like this, but it's generally due to lack of space, certainly not personal preference, as mentioned above. I have a hallway with separate access to both kitchen and lounge, however lounge also has double doors leading out to a sunroom that's open to our kitchen. We'll eventually be removing the sunroom and replacing with a full length extension. I definitely will be blocking up the connecting doors. The lounge just doesn't feel cosy with the corridor effect dictating the furniture.

I think as someone said up thread, it's often only smaller houses that have this setup. Even with the Victorian era houses, it's only the smaller ones where you have to walk through the lounge, many have a separate front room and then access to the middle room from the hallway which gives access to the kitchen. Looking at your floorplan, I think it would be an unusual setup for the size of your house.

Off topic, downstairs bathroom and separate WC seems a bit pointless, I'd definitely sacrifice that to gain some more space to avoid a through lounge

My most favorite house was like this - we just had a lobby rather than a hall.

I've also lived in houses were the lounge was just a through road to the kitchen but without the lobby.

I much prefer the stairs being in the hall, however, small but the rest is fine.

I've just moved from a 3 bed house built in 2001 with a small porch leading into the liveing room which leads into the kitchen. There was a study off the porch too.

my current 1960's 5 bed house has the kitchen off the dining room which leads in turn to the living room and I'm questioning whether it will be strange if we convert the old garage to a kitchen so have it off the hall.

I've only ever lived in houses with the kitchen leading odd or very close to the living room.

I'd avoid it if you can. I hate having to walk through rooms to access others unless it's a two up two down type House. To my mind it makes more sense to have the bathroom backing onto the utility and kitchen as it keeps all the plumbing in one place. That keeps your costs down too.

Make the current study a bedroom and maintain the hall to the back of the house by putting the bathroom when you have the downstairs bedroom, making it narrower to accommodate the hall. You wouldn't need the separate WC then as it could just be in the bathroom, or if you really want an extra downstairs loo it could go under the stairs.

Also, I wouldn't put the dishwasher in the utility room - you want it next to the sink and closest to the drawers/cupboards where you keep the crockery and glasses.

Is there anything preventing you from extending all the way across the back instead of most of the way?

The small WC int a toilet. My bad sketching ! It's a water tank. Which is some big complex thing to do with the solar panels. I am loath to move it as it will cause a lot of expense I imagine. But maybe it's worth it.
The sketched bathroom actually is the bathroom now and I can't imagine we will move that at all.and the living room. I think could cut at the back but not the front. I just don't like the idea of the spare bed downstairs getting all the southern light in the house!
Some of these ideas are really good so thanks for the input. I think the restriction at the side is only because there is a garage. I could maybe do something with that but I'm not sure as we'd loose the access to the back of the house. Mind you we'd be making it a short alley between garage and house but I guess that's better than nothing.

That’s how my home is. Kitchen is through the living room. I never even thought it was weird until now. No back door either.

[quote thosetalesofunexpected]@intelligentPutty

Its sounds a quiky idea plan on paper.

If that is the only way it will work /create etc then do this op.

Oh by the way I like quikyness.

Quiky means original/or something with character.[/quote]
Are you thinking of quirky?