Kitchen or dining room at the back?

[OttilieKnackered]

Hi all,

We’re just in the process of buying a terraced house. Currently the kitchen is at the back looking onto the garden and the dining room is open to the living room, the walls having been removed. Walls can be reinstated quite easily to create hall and/or separate living and dining.

Many of the others nearby instead have the kitchen in the middle. Will add some pictures of all three to show what I mean.

Just wondering which people feel is preferable both for day to day use and resale value.

@trulyconfuseddotcom that’s an attractive option certainly but looks expensive to do. Also not 100% sure how connected they would feel as they’re not in line iyswim. I wish we could afford a nice square house where it would be easier but alas in my city those houses are mostly 400k plus (dreamland prices for us)!

Also, and I appreciate you can’t see this from what I posted, but the soil pipe would be on the wrong side for moving the toilet which I’m led to believe is quite hard/expensive to change.