What would you do with this space?

[arabellaL]

So we're currently planning our new kitchen and I have had the harebrained idea to knock through the wall of our current living room and diner, and then swap over our living room to the front of the house and have a large open plan kitchen area.

It'd be very good size which is what we want, but no idea how to configure. It would also leave us some space in our funny shaped hallway to turn it into a very useful utility room!

How would a kitchen work in this space, if at all? We have a (non working) gas fireplace to the left and French doors to the front, though we would brick up the double doors leading to the hallway so this would be useable wall space.

Help!

here is one option

L = living room

U = utility accessed from the hall (NOT the new kitchen). This is so you have more space for kitchen units on your one good wall, and because it will be nearer for most laundry which will be coming downstairs from the bedrooms.

C = a big hall cupboard for coats etc

then keep a door from the hall to the dining room so that your new living room does not become a corridor

D = dining room in the same place

S = snug area of the kitchen with a couple of comfy chairs near the fireplace

I = island

K = core of the kitchen against the one good wall. this could go further around the wall with the dining room (making the island into a peninsula) if you need more space

Swap dining and kitchen over?

Love this and deffo agree we need the corridor to access the kitchen - will look at the dimensions as we have a wide window in space and want it to be big enough to be useful!