What to do about dated house with tiny kitchen ? :(

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We have put an offer on a house. Near good schools and lovely area , but compromised on space.
The kitchen is tiny so we will have to either extend to the back ( probably can't afford until a few years time) or extend it into the existing side garage.

The rest of the house is dated and needs work too.

I'm thinking the following options:

1. Do up all the house except the kitchen and extend that in a few years time when we have the £. This will mean I have my dream kitchen.

1. Do up all the house and just extend kitchen into the garage.This means I won't get my dream kitchen BUT it's still nice and I can start overpaying on my mortgage instead of saying up for an extension.

WWYD? Is there and Option 3?

We did the kitchen last as it was such a huge expense. Then when it was done we both said we wished we'd done it earlier as it made such a huge difference to the house. Living with it for that time (7 years in our case) meant we knew exactly what we wanted by the time we did it. We ended up putting a downstairs toilet and utility in the garage (again not something I'd thought we'd do, but that's space is invaluable.
Friends of ours did a mini extension just of the kitchen 1.5 m into the garden. Maybe that's worth doing?

Floor plan please. Them's the rules.

Is there a dining room, can you knock through?

Need floor plan!
But I'd prioritise the kitchen over the rest of the house as you spend do much time there, and I wouldn't do half measures with it.

We moved into our house with a tiny kitten in November and we have just had the wall knocked through into the dinning room to make it a big open plan kitchen dinner. I would recommend any big works get done first as the mess and dirt and dust is horrendous. We will also have to do our hallway next which we weren't planning on doing for a while but it's got to dirty from all the work so needs doing ASAP. Just make sure you have one room habitable before any big work starts and you will be fine.

I think it depends if it's potentially your forever home and if not what value the extension would put onto the property. The rear extension would give you the opportunity to do a garage conversion at a later date if you needed extra space or another reception room.

I was going to extend the kitchen on a house I’d bought but not moved into. It just seemed way too small for what I wanted. I had some initial ballpark quotes when I offered, but six months later when I got the keys, they’d almost doubled!
So I moved in with the intention of maybe doing it later. And the kitchen is not as small as I thought it was, but it’s also fairly well planned (not by me) so I’ve grown to really like it. I made a few small changes (put in a dishwasher and changed the worktops).
Could you turn the side return into a utility type thing, freeing up room in the kitchen?