Help me decide how to best make this kitchen larger. Where should the doors go?

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We are looking at this house but feel the dining room is a waste of space and would rather incorporate it into the kitchen and add far more kitchen cabinets.

Which door from the living room should be blocked up? I don’t see the point in two doors to the garden either so one of those could be blocked. I would need to be sure that the wall between the kitchen and the dining room could be taken down and I guess as all the appliances are on the wall it would be pricey to move all the electrics?

thoughts appreciated please!

I would get rid of the lounge into kitchen door , keep the lounge into dining room / new kitchen door but what is the other side of the wall of the current dining room on the side ? Could you put in double doors out to hopefully your garden .
It would give you extra light in both rooms .
Have you checked the wall that would have to come down is not a loading wall ?
If it is you will need an RSJ / Lintel .
Perhaps you need a builder in to quote the work .

I wouldt do anything structural, but I would add some plumbing and make the dining room a utility/boot/ room.

My preference is for a more square kitchen, but if you knock through into the dining room you'll have a fairly long, narrow space (which you might be happy with @gridplan 😉).

If you go ahead, I wouldn't lose the door between living room and kitchen as suggested by @GoldMoon but would block up the other entrance into the room as then you could have cabinets in a 'u' shape in the old dining room.

However, one of my pet hates is traipsing through a living room with shopping en route to the kitchen. We've moved the kitchen twice (current house and the previous one) to avoid doing that, so in your position I'd want to reinstate a hall with dividing wall at the very least.

I do also like @Tortephant's suggestion of turning the dining room into a boot room/utility.

I've discovered i draw pants floorplanzs on my phone!

Id reinstate the hall, keep the door at the end of that, move the door from the garage (or block off completely), put a utility where the back door currently is and knock through to the diningroom.

Something like the attached, which might take some time to upload, and definitely needs refining!

Thank you, that last plan looks great. I’d also think about using some of the back of the garage for a utility room rather than take room from the kitchen.

Your set up is almost identical to what we had, except that we have the hallway as per @EmbarrassmentLovesCompany .

We knocked through from kitchen to dining room, and put double doors in between the dining room and lounge. The hallway had two doors into the lounge! We blocked up the one in nearest the kitchen end.

I would make a full hallway and remove the door into the kitchen. Block off the kitchen back door. Flip the units over so there’s a run of units on the LH wall and along the back wall. Make the doors in the dining room wider, lose the wall between the dining room and kitchen and install a wall between it and the lounge.

The door between the kitchen and the lounge can go finely imo but as for the walls you need to be sure they could be removed safely first. Have you consider trying out a 3d visualizing app maybe? Something like this one or similar, you can just upload the plan in there and then remove the walls and doors and try out various combinations to see which ones would work better for you. Things may seem perfect as a drawn plan but then appear to be inconvenient in real life, so having a virtual walk through the setting might help a lot.