Would this floorplan be a deal breaker? pic attached

[ginghamstarfish]

Seriously looking at this house on rightmove - floorplan in pic - wondering about whether the kitchen having no windows is a deal breaker, as it's really in the middle of the house ... yes there is a cooker hood and ceiling vent, but I am used to opening windows when cooking. The only thing to open is the bifold door in the 'conservatory' (actually a proper roofed living area off the kitchen) which you really wouldn't want in winter, or open the door to the utility room, or open door to utility and open that window, or open kitchen door to hall and then front door. Anyone got a similar layout? Can't decide if this would drive me mad!

It's the bedroom giving onto the kitchen that would bother me, I think.

Could you have a window put in either side of the conservatory if it bothered you after you moved in?

I would find the lack of windows in a kitchen very odd. Could you knock it into any other room and go more open plan?

My PiL have a bedroom off the kitchen. Bedroom is useless for anyone who wants/needs to go to bed early: ie - children, or not get up when the earliest riser makes their first coffee! It's pretty useless actually as a bedroom.

If the conservatory is north facing it could be very dark. If south facing it will prob be fine

You can't have a bedroom opening onto a kitchen under building regs due to fire risk. I wouldn't touch it.

I assume that's a bungalow with an extension behind the garage and at the back (the conservatory)? There are so many doors or doorways off it that the space available for units might restrict the layout options considerably.

You could loose one of the hall cupboards and move the door into the hall that way, which would solve the bedroom door issue and make the room bigger.

With respect to the (lack of) kitchen windows, you really need to see it. Wouldn't bother me in theory assuming the extractor is decent and the natural light from the bifold doors is sufficient.

Could you put in skylights?

Can you have a bedroom opening onto a kitchen?
Where's bedroom 1?
My mother had a kitchen with many doors leading to/from it - lots of wasted space so the storage space, cupboard and appliance space was severely limited.
Dealbreaker for me, yes

That is pretty weird. Where is bedroom one? If it’s upstairs, where are the stairs….

i suppose the conservatory started out life as a conservatory and someone has put a roof on it to stop it being very/ hot as they do. I can’t make out who would want a bedroom and a utility both opening off the kitchen.
if you are interested I would get a full structural survey, because this has all the signs of having been oddly converted from the original, and that often means dodgy beams and openings.

I once found that the ceiling above the door between my kitchen and dining room ( kitchen in ex annex in back of a very old Cotswold stone house) was a rather manky bit of two by one.

The lack of windows in the kitchen would put me off, requiring careful consideration, but then the added prospect of the smells going directly into the bedroom would make it a definite no.

I agree about bedroom office the kitchen.

The only way I'd work that is switching the living room to a bedroom and bedroom to a small living area and then having living space in the conservatory as an extension to the kitchen.

But you have to visit it to see if that would work windows and ventilation wise.

I think there'd be enough daylight coming in from the conservatory for it not so be an issue in the kitchen, but the bedroom off the kitchen. Would put me right off - and as PPs have said, is possibly illegal.
Have you visited and seen it in the flesh?

Can we see a link?

You'd probably be all right with a decent extractor, but I'd be more worried about the kitchen feeling dark.

As PPs have said, Bedroom 3 may not legally be a bedroom because it opens into the kitchen. You'd have to be able to escape through the window. I'd guess it was intended to be a dining room or study.

Presumably there is an upstairs? Otherwise where's the bathroom?

Our kitchen is like this- opens on to back extension with full length bifold doors and velux windows in the roof. North facing as well. It can be a little gloomy but not too bad, in fact it took me a while to realise that your scenario was similar to ours as I don’t think of the kitchen as having no windows.
The bedroom off the kitchen is odd though- we also have a small room off the kitchen but it’s not used as a bedroom.

This. Doubt it would be mortgageable as a three bedroom.

I'd need to completely rejig the layout of that house. It's mad!

It's a very strange layout, and as pp say, legal or illegal, that bedroom off the kitchen doesn't work.

That is an odd layout. I don't thinkI would even view it.

Where's the bathroom?

Are there no opening windows in the conservatory part? Could you put in velux windows in the roof (I’m presuming it’s a bungalow). Bedroom off the kitchen and no sign of a bathroom would put me off more. Do you have a link?

Sounds a bit claustrophobic to me.

The whole thing is bonkers, I'd avoid.