House layout, moving kitchen

[AlanisMorningShed]

Hi

Visualising how logical home improvements are isn't my strong point, so I'm looking for opinions.

Our kitchen needs updating and we're thinking of moving it to the sunroom (which is a standard brick extension with a lantern. Currently just a TV room). Blocking the kitchen door off so we have more unit space.

Could change the showroom to a utility room and WC as we've not used the shower in 3 years of living here.

Knock the existing kitchen through to the dining room and make a snug type room with a log fire. Putting some sliding doors in the front living room to separate it from the dining room.

Does this look like a good option? Where would you put a kitchen?

What is the light like?

I think layout wise it makes sense to keep the living room separate and that would be my preference. But you should pin up a curtain, use a couple of folded out boxes and see what impact it has on that middle space. A wall gives you much more useable space.

If you are going to take down the wall anyway, would the kitchen diner be better in the middle flowing onto family space in the sun room? I did it that way as find the kitchen space easier to light and prefer sitting in the sun but others prefer the opposite.

You can't have a w/c straight off a kitchen. You could access it through a small utility but would that make the space overly tight?

You also need to consider how people walk through the space once you have furniture. It may work fine but it needs thinking about before you embark on expensive work to take down walls.

Sorry, I've just asked you loads of questions! I can absolutely see why you want to improve the kitchen. It seems odd they did so much work without this..

Hi, thank you for the reply.

Ah well that's maybe why the kitchen is where it is. We probably need to keep the WC where it is now.

So yes, maybe the kitchen could go in the middle where the kitchen and dining room is now.

New doors between the living room and dining room would have windows and let the light in. The dining room is dark. Which is why I thought a snug would be nice.
I could go with a dark cosy kitchen maybe and keep the extension as a light bright living space.

So if there was a large kitchen diner in the middle of the house. Would you still block off the door and window in the existing kitchen? Maybe I should keep that to let some light in from the extension.

You can have a toilet directly off a kitchen. The rules changed years ago.

I would just block the door from kitchen to sunroom and take dining room/kitchen wallout. The run units in an L shape along right wall and the wall where sun room is. Then add an island to face into dining room. I would probably reinstate the wall between dining and lounge, but that's because I prefer separate spaces. Or at the very least put sliding doors in.

You could put an internal window where the current kitchen door to sunroom is, if you want to maintain a bit more light.

As @DreadingWinter says, you can definitely have a toilet directly off a kitchen and have been able to do so for years.

We're swapping our kitchen and living rooms over and will have a snug type living room on the site of old kitchen/lobby/utility and toilet.

Ours is a fairly odd layout as it's a Georgian cottage with integral garage that used to be a reception room, so totally different to yours @AlanisMorningShed, but my preference is for the kitchen to be in a bright space (ours will be dual aspect) with the dining room having less need for natural light.