House extension planning

[Upside2024]

hi There , can anyone help me with plan below and advice how you would plan an extension in the semi detached house , we only wanted to extend ground floor.. Mainly to create more seating space for dining with a budget conscious extension which would add value in a resale down the line ..any feedback on plan much appreciated.

I wouldn't extend. I'd move all your units to one end if the room, the bit adjacent yo the hall is completely wasted space. Them put a dining table at the garden end. Much less cost and hassle.

Ditto the above. The room sizes are all good. You just need to rearrange the kitchen.

I would extend. The lounge is too small and the kitchen is too linear. There’s no utility/laundry room or obvious dining area. I’d start again with the kitchen and think how it could be fully at the rear of the house. The front end which is kitchen right now could be another sitting or office area. Not cheap to move a kitchen though. Shane the shower room is stuck in the middle of the rear wall.

Don't extend the downstairs anymore. It will just become dark in the middle of the house.

Your best bet is to lose the downstairs bathroom and open that up to the kitchen (keep the loo and put a corner sink - the original wall is the marker). Change the units from the long thin to the opposite wall in the front area of the kitchen and the dining area across the back of the new dining room.

Can you have a door to the sitting room from the hall by the front door and close off the door to the current back of the kitchen. This would take away the need to walk all around the house to get into the sitting room.

Can you put a shower room in the upper floor?

I’d just make the bathroom smaller. Keep the loo and add a small sink opposite it, but take out everything else and move the wall so it’s next to the loo. Then I’d move a kitchen unit or two from either side by the French doors in the kitchen and replace them with a big larder unit with it’s back to the wall against the stairs. Then you’ve a nice space at the end for a dining table.

Thanks a lot all