This is the floor plan of the property we have just had an offer accepted on. It is detached with a wrap-around garden.
We intend to make the following structural changes.
Knock through Kitchen and Dining room to make an open plan room with an island separating the two.
To do this we will block up some downstairs doorways. Probably the one accessing the kitchen and instead will have double doors from the hall into what is the dining room now.
Knock through Study and Utility to make a larger snug.
Add a large orangery across the back of the house giving access to the kitchen/diner and lounge.
This needs the kitchen layout altering to leave open access where the windows currently are in both the kitchen and dining room.
Relocate the utility room upstairs into some kind of cupboard.
Or, if we removed the access point to the lounge we could enlarge the understairs cupboard currently there to cover the doorway and site the laundry items there.
We are happy to look at other ways we can open up the space and use it to our best advantage.
Any ideas on the kitchen layout would be great.
Should we open up access to the lounge (via the kitchen diner) too to make the whole ground floor open plan aside from the snug?
This would facilitate the new laundry arrangement in the hallway. I know that the cupboard would need soundproofing if we went down that route, as it is on the lounge wall.
We know we will only get one chance to get this right, and many of you have experience with this kind of project and will see things we may have missed. Any help would be appreciated.