Advice on layouts

[Cariadgreen83]

We are currently building a rear extension which will be our living room area. A few people have suggested that we should knock down the wall between our current living (which will be the new dining room) and the kitchen. Below are some suggestions of layouts, what would you do? Keep the wall between the kitchen and dining room or remove it? Thanks for offering your advice.

Take it out. Leaving it in means the dining room is a corridor.

Its not a simple decision as that wall is probably load-bearing and so will involve steels and engineering. If you're going to the bother and expense of adding such a big extension I'd be putting the kitchen somewhere else - either in the extension or in the current living room. the current kitchen could then become a really nice big utility and laundry room with a toilet tucked in behind it. if kitchen is put into extension then it can be kitchen+dining or kitchen+living - probs best putting dining in the existing living as that is becoming a walk-through space which would be annoying if it was the living room. appreciate moving the kitchen causes issues with drainage and water supply etc, but adding a loo in the extension also has those issues to deal with and not impossible.

if kitchen must stay where it is planned then i'd keep the door from hallway into it for sure. i'd probably also keep the wall and have a table in kitchen for everyday dining. leaving the middle room for something else - formal dining (and craft/hobby/homework/jigsaw table for non-formal days which is probably most of the time!) or music room or reading room or whatever you need it to be.

Thanks for all your replies and voting.