Help me

[Byronic]

I'm moving from rented to my own house for the first time. Looking at a place which is in a great location but far too small for us atm. Kitchen is tiny. It has huge scope to extend though.

Can you wise MNers help me with some ideas for how best to extend - I know you're good at this! I could go to the side where there is currently a dilapidated garage, or to the back which is north facing and currently patio area - garden is a decent size. Or could do both I guess. I've been looking at so many houses my head is a bit scrambled for ideas!

Oops, title wasn't supposed to be so dramatic!

We moved last August and are half way through a similar extension although ours is double height at the side. What sort of budget do you have as ours is costing considerably more than we originally thought and 30% more than our architect predicted!

What's your budget and what do you want to achieve - I.e just a larger kitchen or large kitchen/dining/living room plus office/playroom plus utility and toilet?

Terrible drawing but you could knock through along the back to make a large kitchen/dining/living room and have big sliders/bifold along the back of the house. The area where the garage is could be a utility and storage area with a garage door at the front of the house for bikes etc. I'd separate the front living room to be a snug/playroom/office (whichever suits your lifestyle best). The green squares are supposed to represent kitchen on the left dining table in the middle and sofa/chairs on the right. I can't tell if the hallway is wide enough to create a door through to the back though, if it is then it would be nice to have a glass door there so you can see straight through to the garden from the front door.

We almost bought a house that had extended in to the garage (and on top of it). The front half of the garage was a play room and the back half they'd extended the kitchen across. Although their kitchen was deeper than this one. There were then doors from the playroom to the kitchen too.

It all flowed really nicely and was a very good space for families.

Ah, you lot are amazing. My budget is max 400k, house is on for 300. Ideally would want to spend less than 400 though, just have no idea what is achievable really - especially if building costs are going up a lot at the moment.

Would want a bigger kitchen, downstairs toilet, and an office space. Current dining room is small but not unusable. Extending to the side would allow double storey extension, based on looking at other houses on the road - rear extensions seem to be mostly single storey.

There is already a door from hall to kitchen, its not shown on the plan. @beggingforsleep love that plan, but not sure I'd have the space for a sitting room to the left as it's just a single garage width

Also like the idea of keeping storage at the front of the garage for bikes etc, but unsure if I could do that and fit everything else in that I would need....

@missFritton65 can I be cheeky and ask roughly what you've budgeted?

I would do what BigRedBoat suggests.

@Byronic we are paying 220k to second fix so probably going to be 260k ish finished as long as no unseen costs along the way. We are based in the North West.

Thank you @MissFritton65 - not sure what I could do for 100k then :/

@Byronic unfortunately probably not very much with the current prices . We bought for less than £400k but we are adding 80% to our space but it's still a large amount of money and luckily we are detached and on a very mixed housing road with some very large properties so we won't hit the ceiling price. Good luck!