How would you extend this floor plan

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Please could you.give ideas on how you would extend this to add a downstairs toilet and utility?

The kitchen has had a small extension years ago (see purple) and also has a small conservatory (years ago) with a new proper roof (see red)

How would you extend, we do want to keep the garage by the way. Thanks

Here's the floor plan

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You could put a utility and toilet in the back of the garage, close to the stairs

If you extend at the back of the kitchen, will you lose most of your garden? The curved conservatory almost touching the kitchen extension looks like it wastes space between the two. Also are the left hand windows of the conservatory looking out onto the wall of the kitchen extension?

Maybe scrap the conservatory and extend right along the back? You might need to make the kitchen and dining room open plan in order to keep light into the dining area. Or keep a sliver of the dining room on the right hand side without an extension off the back, so you can fit in a small window.

To be honest I would just convert some of the garage. I think anything else would be hugely expensive for not much gain

The garden is.pretty decent so if we came out 3 or 4 metres we would still have a garden big enough for what we need.

The wall between the conservatory is a full plastered wall with TV on so it doesn't look out onto the kitchen extension if that makes sense.

It's so hard to visualise it.

If you extend too far out the back the dining area turns becomes less and less useful as it gets dingier. It doesn't mean you can't extend beyond the current conservatory, it just means you need to be careful to make sure it's an improvement worth the money.

What are you trying to achieve? Just the loo and utility? A massive kitchen living dining room thing? A study for WFH or playroom? Are you after modest ideas or money-no-object ones?

Modest ideas please. A loo is really important, a study would be nice as I work in the dining room now and a utility would be nice, I do like the open plan kitchen diners too but I'm hoping someone has a good idea I've not thought of haha!

Where are your foul drains and where do they connect to the sewer system? Where do the water pipes come into your house? Tapping into these will be the most expensive individual part, so the shorter distance, the better

I can’t see it’s possible to do anything too wild! I think I’d consider losing the existing extension and conservatory and building a new extension all along the back. I’d use the existing kitchen area (utilising under the stairs) for the utility/loo and have an L shaped kitchen/diner with big doors all along the back into the garden. Not sure of size but if possible I’d use some of the old kitchen/new utility to have a big larder for the new kitchen.

I agree with Tina. Remove the existing extension and conservatory, build a new extension the full width of the house which will have your kitchen dining room in, the loo and utility can go where the current kitchen is and where the current dining room is can become the study area. Just put double glazed doors into the new dining area to get light into it.

Hi OP, have had a quick play around with your floor plan.

Hope image has attached!

You do lose a bit of garage space for the loo.

With the side extension, you have a couple of options. Either a sloped roof with skylights, a flat roof with a lantern, or, you could consider a two-storey extension depending on the first floor situation and budget.

I’ve left your conservatory exactly as it is, and imagine the space between conservatory and lounge as an open ‘study’ area with a desk and nice chair and bookshelves and cupboards.

I’ve given you an open-plan kitchen diner as combining your existing purple extension and the side extension I’ve added should give a good- sized room. The utility isn’t huge but I’ve stopped it at that point to give the loo a window. If you don’t bother with a window the utility could be bigger.

hope all this makes sense!

How long are you planning to stay in this house? What kind of condition is your current kitchen in?

What do you use your garage for and would losing a bit of the back make a significant difference?

I can't see the figures stacking up for knocking things down and starting again.

The biggest issue seems to be lack of hallway and if you keep going back it won't address this.

To make the most of what you have, I'd segregate the garage taking the space at back until it is level with the front room.

In this I'd have a loo and utility (or combined) And maybe even a study corner off the lounge (need to be open for light)

But without a hallway, it will mean direct access to the loo off one of the rooms which isn't great. Maybe you could go through the utility to provide some appropriate 'distance'.

This layout is identical to our first house. With the same drawbacks! No hall and no utility or cloakroom. I would sell. You are likely to spend more than its worth quite possibly.

If that’s not possible, I would put a big extension in the garden and fit that out. As you have no hall, a loo will come off a habitable space. It’s just a bit yuk to do that I think. You have no dead space unless you create it. Your lounge would be tiny if you want a hall. Or use the garage.

I think you would need to do a full width extension to be able to fit a loo and utility. If you extended out just past where your kitchen is now you could put the utility and wc as internal rooms as you come out of the lounge. This creates a bit of a corridor for them and separate the lounge and the kitchen diner. I've added a desk for you in the corner which isn't really a snug or office but would get you off the dining room table.

How long is your driveway? Is it possible to bring the front of the garage forward? You could then retain a full length garage and put the loo and utility at the back of the current space.

Hoping to stay for a good 20 years at least. Kitchen is actually OK, been done about 4 years ago (previous owners)

Thanks for your ideas.

No not really possible to move front of garage forward.

I would extend straight along the back about 3m. Put a toilet and utlity on the left at the back of the garage (part of what is currently the kitchen). The toilet door may need to come off the dining area (not sure if you are allowed to have a toilet off a kitchen now?).

I would put bifold doors across the back behind the dining, make the dining narrower and kitchen wider (although can't quite work out if the walls between the kitchen/dining are load bearing (suspect they are?).

Extend full width across the back and convert what is your current kitchen to a loo/utility - services/drainage are already on that side with bathroom above. Kitchen/diner goes into the extension and current dining area becomes walk-through study/snug. Won't be cheap but it gives you the additional downstairs space you want.

Lot depends on your financial circumstances but I think it's risky to knock down a conservatory with a proper roof and fairly new kitchen.

I'd take a corner of living room to make a tiny hall (lose existing door and move it back). Then have a loo in part of garage. Depends where access could go to utility.as to whether this is one room or two.