Bigger kitchen - temporary measure

[3kidsandus]

Have put an offer in to a lovely house which we plan to extend in maybe 2-3 years time. However the kitchen is smaller than we're used to and not to my taste and we'd miss that open plan living.

Two options: knock down the wall between kitchen and utility for a bit more space and paint cabinets.

Or suck it up it's only a few years and paint cabinets/tiles.

Eventually we'd probably move garage forward and have kitchen spanning the back of it.

Thank you. This makes total sense! And 2-3 years will most likely fly by!

I agree that you should keep the utility room separate and if you do want to do something with the kitchen now I would open up the other way and then if in the future you want to extend further you can open up to the conservatory.
Looks like you have enough other reception room space - if you need a study you could use the current dining room and have your dining table in the kitchen.

I'd knock kitchen to study to make kitchen/dining room, opening doors out where the study window is, onto a large patio, so you can eat outside when nice, and turn dining room into study. I'd keep the utility where it is, keep the noisy machines out of it!

Ah interesting to see people would extend towards the study. I always saw it going through other way!

The annoying thing is the study is carpeted and used as a playroom so would have to replace floors which I do f have the bandwidth to start thinking about :)

I think realistically will live with it until we can afford to extend etc

I would go into the study and make it a kitchen/dining room and then make the dining room a playroom x