Would galley kitchen put you off buying this four-bedroom detached house?

[TaraTwain]

Hi gang,
Interested in this property, but the galley kitchen is really putting me off. I didn't really want to spend money on changing the layout and see no obvious solution, anyway. Would appreciate feedback on such a kitchen and whether you'd be put off by a kitchen like this in a 4-bedroom detached house.
Link below:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88928685#/?channel=RES_BUY

Thanks in advance!

TT x

gosh no - that kitchen has around 4 or 5 metres of workspace. (as in it wouldn't put me off)

I love a galley kitchen, so easy to work in. The house itself is very boxy and bland though.

Kitchen is fine.

Yes, it’s a really awkward layout and the downstairs seems small for a 4-bed. As the main cook, I’d hate a galley kitchen like that, it’s really cramped and I’d feel out of the way of everyone. The house is pretty drab too. I think you could find something a lot better.

Absolutely put me off at that width. Try moving round it and cooking with a child/other person stood there talking to you and they will.

There’s nothing about that house that is appealing, but the galley kitchen and whole downstairs layout is awful.

I’d be more concerned the living room looks really small. It’s not much house for that price (and I live in the SE!)

I’m not a fan of living/dining rooms, so that would put me off. Could the kitchen be extended or the layout changed?

I suppose it depends on what else, if anything, you’d want to change. I’d want to upgrade the bathrooms.

That layout wouldn't work forme. I wouldn't want the dining table in the sitting room so would want a separate dining room or kitchen/diner.

Isn't a Galley kitchen a very narrow one with everything down one side? That's a perfectly decent sized kitchen, if a little narrow.

If you want to open it up, there's the hallway and study to take space from

Yes it would put me off. Size wise it is ok but it would be very isolating as 2 people couldn’t be in the room at once so everyone else would be in the lounge.

So a busy morning or evening could become more stressful than if there was an eating space in the same room.

No, I like a kitchen where everything is in reach. Thw fact that it's cut off from everything would bother me though. Plus the house isn't very interesting. But the shape of kitchen isn't a problem.

That is not a galley kitchen in my understanding of the word. I grew up in an Edinburgh flat with a tiny kitchen, OK the room is long and skinny but it's 20 feet long. Ours growing up was about half that and very narrow.

A galley kitchen can be annoying but that's not a galley kitchen, it's 8 foot by 21 foot with room for multiple cupboards at the far end, and it will have easily 4ft of space down the middle. The breakfast bar up at the other end is good for encouraging anyone who wants to chat to stay out your way.

It wouldn't put me off - I've got a galley kitchen myself. And that's a nice kitchen. The main thing for me would be that the house has the key features you want. I want a utility room in next house and this house has one. Don't worry - not going to put an offer in. Looks a really nice and bright property.

Not a layout ai could work with. The kitchen is so cut off from the rest of the house, it's not even adjacent to the dining room. I don't like the flow of the downstairs at all.

And is that tall growth at the end of the next garden bamboo? That would instantly put me off due to the risk of the runners in my garden and foundations and needs to be checked out with a proper garden/plant survey if so before you even think about purchasing

Definitely not, that kitchen looks perfectly useable as is. I cook almost everything from scratch and have a lot of appliances. Our old kitchen was 3.4x2.2m and I didn’t find it too narrow/small at all, and this is almost twice as long to boot.

As a low cost option to improve would be to block up the kitchen door (doesn’t look like it leads anywhere useful) and then turn the back corner into a table with fixed banquette seating so it is a breakfasting/ dining space as well.

Then turning the study space (unless really needed) into an amazing utility / storage space.

That kitchen is like 3x the size of mine and I have a 4 bed detached. But I do hate the kitchen a lot.

so basically I’d buy it but it would be a massive upgrade for me.

It looks lovely, Op x

The downstairs just doesn't flow right.
For a a cheap fix to make the kitchen a litchen diner, Take out the cupboards at the far end and use the area for a dining table.

For a 4 bedroom I'd be looking for a utility area/room.
What are the other houses the same style as this like ? They might give you ideas of what you can do with the layout.

What would put me off is that the kitchen is separate. Could you at least put a hatch between it and the living room/diner? Or an archway?

Yes, but I'm claustrophobic. My kitchen is 5m x 4m and has French windows onto a garden. And sky lights.

But some people will love it. Do you like it OP? You're the one who will have to cook in it.

Absolutely this - that bamboo does not look like the clumping variety, and could cause no end of problems.

Incidentally a galley kitchen is one with a door or entryway both ends, and cupboards down each side - the one on the house you linked is a U shaped kitchen. The kitchen itself wouldn't put me off, the bamboo and lack of dining space would.