Is this kitchen too small to buy?

[Fofftwenty21]

Hi I'm a FTB and would love some advice. We have seen a house we like. It's a good location, 3 bed semi-detached, lovely garden but the kitchen is small (9'4 x 6'5) my husband thinks its too small but I can the potential to change it such as removing the bookcase and chest freezer which will free up some room and maybe removing the cupboard on the wall near the clock. Also possibly opening up into the dining area or a side extension to the left but have no idea of costs for this?

Any other advice about the layout is greatly appreciated, thanks. We are going for another viewing in a couple of weeks, when we viewed last time I don't remember it feeling small but I don't know if we spent enough time there.

Looks OK to me, I have a small kitchen and love cooking. I don't however use my kitchen as any type of living space, I know some people do like to sit and relax with a coffee in a nice large comfy kitchen. If your husband thinks the kitchen is too small then perhaps for your family it is.

It's the white goods on the right hand wall that make it look too narrow. Is there any rearranging that can be done to limit that? I can't actually work out what the half height item is.

Sorry, you've said it's a chest freezer. That needs to go and will make a difference

We had a gallery kitchen in our first house. Once it was redone with tall wall cabinets and a decent layout I loved it.
I've seen much smaller kitchens.

My kitchen is 9x6 and you can have two people in it! It's fine, it's just a space to
Prep food.

It would be really lovely knocked through so as long as that was doable in the next year or 2 then I’d buy the house. Long term it would be too small for me though, probably because we’ve always had open plan-ish layouts so it would be the feeling rather than lack of storage. Cost to knock through will depend primarily on whether it’s a supporting wall you’d be removing. Also where you are, if it’s London it will cost more, and what standard of kitchen you’d want to refit with.

A kitchen that size is really swamped by a double width cooker, surely a single width (60cm) undercounter oven with hob above would free up space?

Knock through and have a big kitchen diner I did this last year and love it

I had a total refit though but the price just for the wall coming out was around 3k but it was a load bearing wall this will make a difference so check that

Having read the update that is 19 foot long, theres nothing wrong with that!!

Thats enormous. You can set your base cupboards the same depth as normal wall cupboards, it does mean that you have less worktop depth, or perhaps just do that on one side, but you have the space to play around

That's crying out for the wall to get knocked down would be a brilliant sized kitchen diner!

We did this in current house. It was not a supporting wall so no joists or anything like that. It had electrics and gas pipes in it so we couldn't do it ourselves. Kitchen company did it for us and they took £500 that was 4yrs ago. Total cost of kitchen was about £14k with granite worktops (sourced directly) and a separate utility room. Also sourced other bits and pieces myself to keep costs down.

But it's not simple to knock through, it looks as though it has been extended outward, so you may well be stuck with a support in the middle where the original back wall is. Which limits what you can do. The kitchen diner could be in the original part of the house. And then what for the ends?

You knock through the ends, not the main part.

I'd do this to it. Utility room, kitchen, dining/family room.

And a loo-tility to get a downstairs loo as well maybe.

Have you looked at the sold properties for that street on Rightmove? Other owners may have opened up the space, or just planned it differently.

Was going to say the same as @LuluBlakey1

The fact that it's already extended will make taking out the whole wall difficult. Not necessarily impossible but a lot more steel and expense.

It would be fine as is though with decent design and narrower units down one side

Thanks everyone lots of good ideas and advice.