Need to expand and lighten up the kitchen

Jackie Ruell

2 years ago

We need to lighten and get more space in our kirchen - main aim is to be light and bright. Thanks for any ideas,

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siobhanmcgee90

2 years ago

Move kitchen to dining room and have direct access to this from the hall, close up the door to the living room and outside door. It would be lovely if the back window in the current dining were bifolds opening out to the back garden. Move the dining into the now-kitchen and open up the entrance to this. Remove stores to make ample room for table and chairs. If the stores walls are structural and the budget does not stretch, opening up the entryway (removing current entry from dining to kitchen) will make this more usable as dining area.

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Ellie
2 years ago
Knock kitchen and dining room together would make sense to me?
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DANA
2 years ago
Take out the two storage rooms cluttering your kitchen. Then you can redesign the now bigger open space with more built in storage and utilise the window that is now in the storage room. Might be worth repositioning the door to the utility as well.

Also, by moving the door leading from the entrance to living room towards the stairs a bit you could get a a full wall of storage in the entrance hall on the wall opposite the entry door.
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User
2 years ago
I agree with both previous comments. Remove stores and wall between kitchen and dining room will give you a nice bright space. May I also suggest glazed French doors from the hallway into the dining room?
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Jackie Ruell
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2 years ago
Thank you ver py much - i like all those ideas. we were thinking about extending but i can see that first if we open it up we can see what we have
niad
2 years ago
Seems a long way from hall to kitchen so I would block door from entrance hall to living room. Double doors into dining room. Join dining room to kitchen if you’d like open plan. Also knock through to the little storage rooms unless you have a particular use for them.
Wendy G
2 years ago
If you have the funds, could you extend out from the utility and kitchen (ie extending just that corner). You can then move the utility into the cupboards and are left with one large L shaped kitchen with lots of light coming in, as more external walls mean you can add windows.
Ken Varden
2 years ago
As the kitchen is south facing, why not extend the window along the wall over the work top? That should give you plenty of light
Linda
2 years ago
How much do you need the shower in the ground floor bathroom? I'd get rid of that, knock out the 2 store rooms and have an entrance to the kitchen from the front hallway. That opens up the kitchen a lot. I'd widen the doorways into the living room (from the hall and between LR and DR). Whether to do an open plan kitchen/dining room is your choice.
Collby Soow
2 years ago
Would reposition that w/c to the left of the entrance to the stores - connect that space when you enter the house…

So entrance hall connects immediately to kitchen and dining room.

At the moment access to kitchen is only thru living and dining room?

Can add skylights above dining if your don’t want to extend…

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