Help how to design this kitchen/room

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So we're buying a house and I could really do with some help in working out what to do with this kitchen.

We have decided we do not want to spend the money to knock down the conservatory and build an extension so here are some thoughts we have considered:

Knock down dining room wall to make a longer open kitchen

Make the opening to the conservatory wider and remove doors (replace roof in conservatory with a tiled warmer roof)

Or make the opening to conservatory wider and replace doors with bifolds for light.

Doing the above how can we design the kitchen? I've tried putting kitchen down the dining room end but it leaves the other end quite bare (not sure it would fit a dining table with the utility and hallway door in the way)

Or kitchen units where they are currently with a peninsular coming off where the current wall to dining room is?

Ideally we want some form of seating in the kitchen whether that's at a breakfast bar or dining table.

Oh and to add we don't want a galley style kitchen

This looks familiar! You posted before didn’t you?

I would:
knock through dinning to kitchen
move the utility door right to the end of the wall
create the L shape on the kitchen/wc/utility wall

There were some good ideas in the other thread you created - did any of those work for you?

Yes @TizerorFizz I did! We have decided to definitely go for the house and now just need to decide what to do without an extension!!

@HungryForSnacks yes I do like some of them! It's my husband I am trying to convince, everytime I talk through an option he finds fault with it but he does still want the house 🤣 so as my original post was about an Island I thought I'd start a fresh one as we both realise an island is out of the question for this kitchen.

I think he is visually struggling to imagine what a kitchen would look like.

@TakeMe2Insanity do you mean to enter through the toilet to then get to the utility?

A lot will depend on where the utilities are, what you budget is and what walls are load bearing

We went through every conceivable position for a kitchen and dining area. The logical solution is to get rid of the conservatory and make this a kitchen and dining area. You will end up with a narrow kitchen that’s just not good enough for the space the house offers. Conservatories are never fully used unless they are highly insulated and top quality. So you will end up with a smallish narrow kitchen and an underused area which is probably cold. DH should be persuaded you might be throwing money at a poor solution. Throw money at the right one.

Honestly I think it would be a waste of money to do anything other than a plan that involves removing the conservatory.

Anything else is a massive compromise imo.

Personally I would live with it and save.

@TizerorFizz @Mamette I completely agree with you both!

We will have a spare £35k to do what we need but this will also need to cover new flooring downstairs and upstairs as well as blinds etc. I spoken to our builder and he said £1500 p/sqm (they are really reasonable and we've used them before) but obviously then there's the conservatory removal costs and knocking the wall down which they have said will be £2500 if it's load bearing and cheaper if not.

I need to persuade him, I wonder if we could go with a smaller width extension to cut the costs

That £35k is in addition to the new kitchen costs btw