back door only way through is kitchen and dining room

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We've just has this extension built. We were plannning to block up the door that's marked as a black square on the plan. That'll mean that when you come in the back door or the back sliding doors to get through to the main bit of the house you'll have to walk through the new kitchen and the family room to get to the hall.

Would this put you off?

I can't make putting a downstairs loo in and keep a way through the utility straight to the hall.

There is no way I would lose the door where that black box is.

All that space but nowhere to put coats....yes, I'd agree. - but we'd end up putting a coat cupboard somewhere - by the front door maybe is a good point. But we were trying to avoid that.

I'd like to have a corridor through from back door to hall. But keep struggling with the doors and end up thinking we'll keep bashing doors into each other.

The cupboard under the stairs is small and not particularly useful . It's also got a lot of hot water pipes going through it.

We can't make the door from kitchen into utility a pocket door (complicated pipes going on there too.).

Keep the door you blacked out, replace door to utility in kitchen with a cloaks cupboard. Job done! Easy route to washing machine from stairs and to loo from garden and extra coats space .

If the only/main purpose of the utility is washing clothes, then access routes should be the hall, so easy to get clothes from upstairs and then out to the garden. If you block access door to the kitchen then this will be a place to put coats.

Or - do you need that many cupboards in the kitchen. Could you sacrifice some as a coat storage accessed from the hall.

Taking on biosrd the points about the washing and also closing off the family room or it just being a corridor.

The ‘black box’ door could easily be reinstated by a future buyer, it’s just a stud walll cupboard and the door frame etc staying in place.

We are now thinking of stacking wm and tumble dryer, and putting a pocket door where turquoise line is so there’ll be a walk through from back door to hall.

Easier access for loo from back garden, for washing and an alternative route than through kitchen diner.

DH not convinced of the need but agrees it would bring more light into a dark hallway. And thinks neither is perfect but should see if it will fit.