Walking through kitchen diner to access living room?

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Is this really off putting?

We want to change our current living room in to a bedroom & en-suite, and add an extension to the back to create a new living room. But that would mean having to walk through the kitchen diner to get there - proposing to put in internal French doors or similar from the existing kitchen diner.

There’d be plenty of room to walk through, or is this a really terrible idea.

I like the idea of having a living room that’s connected to the garden, the existing kitchen diner already has dual aspect windows so light not a problem.

Something like this but a bit wider, and an opening from the kitchen/dinner with wide French doors across half the wall on the house side, to one side.

Will it feel like an entryway? Where will coats, shoes, bags go?

Most houses I've lived in had a side door into the kitchen and we tended to use that so not unusual unless it's a bigger house. I do like a hallway with storage though.

Can’t add a photo, but it’s the first one in this article!

fittra.co.uk/blog/rear-house-extension-ideas-photo-gallery/

We have a main entrance with a porch and cupboard for shoes and jackets.
The kitchen is through a door in the hallway with the living room at the front of the house, but because of where bathrooms and stairs are position it’s only possible to extend from the kitchen, if that makes sense!

It’s all about “flow”. In theory, rooms shouldn’t lead to other rooms, but in practical terms it may be impossible to avoid this. If you feel it may be jarring, which is what your post implies, then trust your gut. However, I can understand the need for compromise because of what you’ll gain. You have to ask yourself is it worth it and only you can answer that.

I’d be more inclined to have the kitchen diner opening into the garden and the living room central and more cosy.

If you think it will work for you in every other way, go for it . So long as the kitchen is arranged so that the route to the living room doesn't go exactly where you will be transferring hot pans from the stove etc.

I think this floorplan is fairly common and have no problem with it. I would like a living room onto the garden. If I ever have any spare money and am still in this house I'll be doing this sort of extension too.

Make sure you can get natural light to the middle rooms otherwise it will be a dungeon effect, either side windows if you are detached or semi or skylights into the middle of the house if possible like an atrium effect.