What would you do with this useless room?

[HangryDoughnut]

Marked as study/snug on the floorplan. It's part of the most illogical side return extension that may as well be made of bloody cardboard.. it measures about 2m x 2.5m but there's either a door or window on every wall and a 30cm pillar jutting out between the windows..

I was thinking some kind of boot room but I just can't figure out how to make it work!

Knock through and extend the kitchen.

Utility room, or at least, somewhere to put your washing machine? Or could you open it up in the form of an arch to add space to the kitchen?

Utility room or playroom if you have children
could use it as a study / quiet area away from tv in sitting room ?

It's more space which is the key issue. There's loads of stuff you could do, even with structural walls. Knock through to the kitchen or sitting room. fill in the windows.

You could capture that space out by the back door and have a passage which links the shower room and kitchen, then seal off the shower door and have an extra downstairs bedroom/home office if you are short on space/have guests.

Loads of stuff you can do that is not only useful but will add value.

It seems like a good study or home office to me. It would make more sense to extend the kitchen into it, but pricey, I assume.

The dream would be extending then kitchen and turning the big window into double doors, however £££ and it was most certainly built by cowboys and I fear taking out that external wall may actually cause my only useable bathroom upstairs to colapse in on itself 😂

It would be handy to put washing machine and things out there but the windows are only about 50cm from the floor meaning it would always block a door/window.. blocking up the windows would help with making it a useble space but the house is already so so dark!

A bootroom would be great. Run a long unit along the one solid wall, and add a low unit on the wall perpendicular to this.

A library, or music room -if you play any instruments.

Can you just put smaller windows in so they are higher than 50cm and give you useable wall space without losing light?

I'd save up, get the ceiling sorted if it needs it and make a bigger kitchen area. If possible I'd make the shower room into a utility with shower too, and loo if you don't have a downstairs loo

For now - dining room then use the current dining room as lounge and middle room as playroom

ideally - extend kitchen into it, swap
dining room and lounge round

A reading room lined with bookshelves would be my dream...

i'd cover the ceiling with LED lights and fill it with plants like a conservatory. that would look good from the sitting room windows. and have a nice bench there to sit and read a book.

i'd probably also have the washing machines and some storage tucked away too, but lots of bright lights and plants just outside the sitting room window might feel good.

Definitely a utility room. Your kitchen looks small so put as much as possible out there. Washer and dryer along plain wall. Then storage under windows for shoes/ school bags etc. Even an island in the middle for more storage/ drawers/ extra big sink etc. Off load as much as possible out of the kitchen to keep things minimalist there.

I'd get a structural engineer to look at the viability and cost of taking that kitchen wall out - may be very achievable with a steel beam.

What's the lighting arrangement in there?

You can get daylight led bulbs for both GU10s and a standard bayonet or screw fittings. 1500 lumen for the latter and the room wouldn't be dingy.

I'd suck up losing the bottom of the windows to turn it into a proper utility room.

I'd turn it into a home gym !

Or failing that definitely a utility/boot room.

I'd also swap the sitting room and dining room round.

The dining room and the sitting room seem the wrong way round. Don't you have to walk through the sitting room to get to the dining room from the kitchen?

I'd turn it into the dining room. Makes no sense for the dining room to be the room furthest from the kitchen.

No advice, but I keep misreading your title as ‘What would you do with this useless .groom?’

The room in question is actually pretty light, it's got a velux window and glass back door, it's just the extension structure itself blocks the light in the rest of the house!

Yes the floorplan was how to previous owners had it, however, we use the "dining room" as the sitting room/tv/kids stuff room, the middle room had ambitions of dining room but is mostly our more "grown up" sitting room.

I think it would be a squeeze to get a good sized table in there, it's also permanently freezing.. I probably need to look into sorting it properly but closing the door and ignoring is easier...

I would knock through into the living room to make it a living room diner and then block the dining room off so it becomes a separate living space.