Help with layout!

[redskies]

Hi all,
looking for some help with attached floor plan! We want to move the kitchen from the north side of the house to the area currently used as the lounge. This is south facing and the garden room has 2 sets of patio doors opening to our large garden. We will knock the wall down between existing kitchen and playroom to make a lounge area. We currently have a log burner in the chimney that we are hoping to repurpose in the new lounge.
we probably need to keep the chimney breast in the new kitchen area. Any advice on floor plan and kitchen layout? Thanks

Moving the kitchen would be expensive probably as gas and water wouldn't be in place

Would it not make more sense to just extend kitchen into the play area?

That gives a north facing kitchen- so helping to keep temperature down in what is normally a hot room during the hotter months

Thanks for suggestion and we have thought about this. We currently use the old play room as a breakfast room and spend most of our time in that side of the house. It’s a shame as it’s quite dark and the rooms are smaller. We want to create a more open, sociable family space on the larger, sunnier side of the house that opens on to the garden. We know it’s expensive to move the kitchen but hoping it will ne a worthwhile investment.

if you stay in the darker playroom - why? Does it feel cosier ?

Could you keep the kitchen where it is but block up the door that currently connects it to the playroom, and instead knock through from the existing kitchen to the lounge? Then you would have a big L-shaped kitchen diner and you could expand the kitchen down into the right-hand side of the lounge rather than moving it altogether. Then you could repurpose the playroom as a grown-up lounge/study which would be lovely and cosy on winter evenings when it's dark anyway.

For the kitchen, play room and lounge, how about knocking all the walls down that you can, and if there are cupboards on the wall between the kitchen and lounge then knock out the top wall and have it as a hatch?

Or knock out the wall between the kitchen and lounge to make an L shaped room, leaving the play room as it is?

Oh. Cross posted with the other poster 😁.