Knock through the kitchen and dining room

[TeaChocKitKat]

I've seen a house I really like but it has a fairly small kitchen and dining room. I'd like to knock through and put a new kitchen in but I think there might be too many doors for that to be practical? what does everyone else think? Could it work? Any idea how much it would cost? There's a lot of interest in this house so I need to act quickly if I'm going to make an offer

Our house is similar. We blocked up some doors and made news ones. We also extended out 3m at the back of the house and fitted a new kitchen. All in it was 65k.

So the red lines show where the walls used to be and where the old door from living room to kitchen was ....

OP look on Rightmove at other houses sold in the area and see what they have had done inside.
Where I live there are lots of similar properties to mine and it is interesting to see what they have had done to the kitchen.. loads of them have knocked through into the dining room making the kitchen huge and you can see the photos and the floorplan

Hope this helps

Ive tried that but none of the other houses on the street or nearby that are the same layout seem to have had it done which makes me think maybe its not doable

Thanks, to be honest we probably wouldn't want to extend. IF we did extend we would possibly just add a utility room but on the whole the house is big enough for us.

The market is still very aggressive in this area as so few houses come up so we need to make a decision quickly.

THERES NO BATH!!! 🫣

... but yes I'd do that too - make kitchen diner and have a larger kitchen and fit a dining area in there too - no measurements but you could try to fit a small sofa in too so you can have a snug part too, then the more formal /evening lounge area shut away from the chaotic kitchen / dining part (if your family life is anything like mine 🤭)

In your shoes that's exactly what I'd do. As for the doors, I don't see an issue

Yes that's another issue we'd need to sort straight away! I love a bath!!!

You definitely could do this, it would be a far better arrangement. It’s important to check whether the wall you want to knock down is a supporting wall, a structural engineer will tell you. You’re probably looking at around £2000 for advice and the work. As for a new kitchen, the choice is vast between cheap and very expensive. We went to Magnets, I do not recommend them.

That's what we are hoping. Ive asked the estate agent if they have room dimensions but they haven't come back to me. We tend to live in the kitchen so I want to make sure we can make that room work for us

Looks like a fairly straightforward change tbh. Block up the door from the lounge to the dining room and take out the wall between the kitchen and dining room. Decide what to do with the two stores - you could use one for a utility room and the other as a pantry or incorporate the space of one or both into the space.

We have double doors from the lounge into the dinning area of the kitchen. It means the whole living area is lighter and can be opened up. It’s great when you have visitors as everyone can mix.

I think it looks doable but from previous conversations when doing this myself if there's a wall in the upstairs sitting on it you will definitely need to put a steel beam in to support it. It looks from the floor plan like the wall between bedroom 3 and the shower room sits on top of the wall you want to take down.

That means it will need building regs as well which is a few 100 on top and means getting the council involved which can sometimes slow things down, you can use a private building control company to speed it up though depending on whether that's worth the extra money (difference for our last one was between about £300 for council and about £1000 for private).

Also (and it might be just the floor plan) but if you're having a viewing I'd check out what the black section is, if that's some kind of structural support that runs up through the middle of the house then you might not be able to fix the beam into it so it might limit your opening a bit. You normally need about 10cm either end of the beam (they call this a pier) to support the beam if that makes sense.

Good point. This might explain why none of the other houses that have the same layout nearby seem to have done it.

Definitely doable! I'd budget £5k to do the work including plans/permissions.

All I see is doors !!!!!!!!!!!! 17 in total 😳

I know! So many doors! It's in such a lovely spot but it has too many doors!!