My current kitchen is the same size as your bedroom. I think, size-wise, it’d be too small to become the formal dining room, probably more the breakfast or smaller family dinning room. Our current dining room (we changed into library/music room) is 4.70 x 3.40 and it was good to house our big 6-seat table, push chairs back and walk around. And a couple of dressers in the alcoves. However we are a small family of three - not many visitors, dine out rather than entertain at home. I got rid of the table, bought the 4 seat drop-leaf vintage Ercol and it sits in the bay window of our living room.

Or working on the above idea, turn the kitchen into a bedroom, the bedroom into a bathroom/en-suite and then merge the dining room, bathroom and en-suite and a bit of the hallway into a kitchen diner.

How about

• merge current dining / lounge into a huge lounge/dining/kitchen space
• split the current kitchen into 2 rooms - small study/ bedroom at the front and install bathroom in the middle ( but that means no window, could you install one on the left? )
• get rid of current bathroom and make bedroom bigger making a rectangle shape similar to dining room, then you can use up the wasted space in the entrance hall, obviously block off door to dining room, you can then decide if you want a bigger dining room or bigger bedroom etc
• one thought is, will you need a downstairs WC? Unfortunately I can’t think of where at the moment lol...under stairs?

Hi Carol,

If you're happy with a more informal dining area, banquet seating would work well off the end of the kitchen units. On the left side you could have low units or tall units running up to the banquet seating. Here's a couple of inspiration images.

On the right side of the kitchen could be tall units. You can add a pantry or even build in a cupboard for coats etc accessed from the hall. What is currently the ensuite could potentially be turned into a small utility area for washer/dryer as the plumbing is already there.

The kitchen is nice & long and would give you plenty of worktop space despite being narrow.

You could also leave part of the wall up but fit glass doors/sliders (or just have an opening) which creates separation but still has an open plan feel when you want it open.

Love that idea of the banquet seating to save on space and think that would be a low cost option too 😁 Thank you. I love the property as they have done most of it and has only just been renovated/converted but the lack of space for a dining area in the kitchen doesn’t suit me but if allowed I could swap the bedroom and open up the wall hopefully. I cannot change the windows or add extensions etc as it’s a grade II listed building.

My pleasure, I really love banquet seating. That's great everything is recently done and you like it. The current dining room would make a lovely bedroom! Fingers crossed you are able to do the internal works. Good luck with your project :)

Thank you and yes I hope I am able to and can’t wait to start.