House Extension Ideas

[pixaar3101]

Hello Everyone,

We are planning our house extension after having two kids and looking for some ideas and opinions on our current thought process.

Please refer to the rough plan. Below is the colour schema.
Black = Existing ground floor.
Blue = Planned extensions
Red = My question areas

I have 4 questions as highlighted in the outline.

1. Extended kitchen diner will increase to approx 30 sqm from the current kitchen size of 10 sqm. Any thoughts on the planned drawing?
2. We will extend to the back and add approximately 1.5M. Living room 2 will become quite long at 8M. Do you have any ideas how can we manage this space better? French doors in the middle? I can think of a few uses for this space. Kids playroom, TV room, A library/reading area etc.
3. I have a pretty good feeling about this point. We are not going to break through this wall as it will create a very long room. SO this stays as Living room 1/guest reception.
4. Does it make sense to combine the planned kitchen diner with living room 2 to create a very large open kitchen diner/living room? We cook a lot and I kind of like having a separate kitchen from living room but we do have living room 1. So I am in two minds whether to open it up or keep it as planned.

Are there any things we should watch out for or consider in our planning?
Any ideas or comments welcome.

I also think it is a bit weird to have as many reception rooms as there are people living in the house. Almost like you don't ever want to spend any time together?

I said this up thread but we have this and I love it. 4 reception rooms, 4 people in the house. It means both teens can be in separate rooms with their friends, hubby can watch football in another and I can do something else in the last one.

We have plenty of time all together but I love that we have the space to spread out.

Is it detached? I can't see where the windows would be in the new design. Also, what direction is the back facing?