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Renovating Design Dilemma

How to repurpose “skinny” kitchen and garage

3 years ago

Hi all,

So the fiancé and I have taken the plunge and bought a nice 4 bed detached with a garden backing onto woodlands (what convinced us this was the right one).

We plan on extending in a couple years once we’ve saved up again, with a wrap around extension being the dream (starting about halfway back).

Thing is, we’re not sure what to do with the old kitchen or the garage as they’re not the widest of rooms. We’d probably have a utility room but feel it might be a waste of the sun coming in through the front.

any ideas are very welcome, we really want to unleash the potential in this place!

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CWD

3 years ago

kitchen could become lovely home office with window to the front (add a door into it from the hall closer to the front door). the side window in the kitchen - make that a door and section off the back bit to make into back door/utility room/bootroom - have cabinets on both sides running from new side door to hallway. keep the front of the garage for bike storage, but could partition off the back and enter through the current hall coat closet into a new internal storage room - or that could be your boot room and utility if you want to have a bigger office where the kitchen currently is (or steal a bit of the kitchen to expand the dining area once it's part of your open plan extended room).

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Tessa Wright
3 years ago
We have a very similar house. We knocked through the kitchen and dining room and blocked off the entrance to the living room. We also converted the garage into a long thin playroom. In hindsight I might have taken a bit of the garage for the washing machine (the internal wall that backs onto the downstairs loo). Had we not had kids we might have done something a bit more open plan but we wanted doors we could shut!
Tessa Wright
3 years ago
Sorry, just realised I haven’t answered your question at all as you are totally remodelling. Lockdown has killed my brain!
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A bit radical perhaps but could you look at knocking sideways from the kitchen into the hallway. this would give you a squarer room to play with and by the sound of it, lots of lovely light. The front hall then moves I
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There's so many opportunities to do in this house!
Steven Blundell
3 years ago
Hi, we recently converted a garage into a utility and extension to our kitchen do you have a picture of the front of your house?
Jane Botham
3 years ago
HELLO. How about, opening up the dining room and sitting room and putting the kitchen where the dining room used to be. Then 'square off' the old kitchen/breakfast room to form a snug/home office. The remaining space would then become a Utility room with access from the hallway through the original door and to the outside through the original window.

I would keep the original window in the new kitchen with a sink under it and add patio/bifolds to the sitting room end! Hope this helps!

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