Could it be the hallway-lobby door is missing from your floorplan?

And please post the upstairs floorplan as well. it's a corner terrace (as in semi-detached)?

How many bedrooms? Upstairs has a bathroom? Neighbours did extensions as well?

Hi JJP,

Like Rinked said, the floorplan doesn't seem right so it's quite hard to follow your detailed thoughts.
However, I think there is a lot of potential here and you will be able to fit everything you want in.

I think having the whole kitchen as the utility is much too generous proportionally for the house so I've got another suggestion.

I think the whole lobby area becomes the wet room and utility, with the wall shown as it is (whether that is correct or not)

The hallway gets made much bigger, with a new wall now running across the sitting room in line with the current kitchen wall.
In your new hallway, there is ample welcome space but it is also a quiet space for your office, files and PC.
There are doors here to the utility and one door into the open plan space, currently sitting room.

This gives you half the house plus your extension to fit your DJ stuff, TV and kitchen. Do you want the TV and DJ stuff to be in their own room and then the rest open plan? Does the kitchen become this closed media room?

Also planning permission for permittee development changed a few years ago so that 3m isn't the standard extension max, it's actually 50% of the original footprint instead. This may mean you don't need to go though consultations or planning still. Have a look at Planning Portal to find out what you can do within permitted development, also your council has Building Control who can tell you more.
I would consider going for a half width extension but longer, just so you don't end up making the centre of the house too dark.

If you want further help drawing the spaces up so you can really get a feel of the new space and therefore work out what size you need, feel free to get in touch, this sounds like such a fun project and I'd love to be involved.

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Good luck
Emily X

Thankyou for getting back to me, this plan might show a little better the current layout of the house. Measurements are still approximate as it’s what’s taken from the original sale documents.
The one I’d added to the original post is a working progress and I agree not being finished makes it confusing, I didn’t think that through very well for which one to add.

Yes Rinked there should be a doorway into the lobby area.
Thankyou Emily, there is some great ideas there, I definitely will rethink on the initial ideas which I’ve listed below.

The property is a 3 bed semi detached house, it’s an ex council property built around 1950s/60s.
It has a small slabbed drive way to the front, there should be two steps up to the front door but the previous owners have raised the driveway level to the top of the steps, so you can’t see these large concrete steps but they haven’t been removed, this whole front needs redoing in the future.
The Side area of the property is only 3-4ft wide. The Garden is a reasonable size, also needing work.
The whole space interior & exterior is Lacking any personality or originality.

So you know where my line of thought is, it is about the home working for my whole family, a social multi use space.
It will become home to myself my youngest who is disabled and will always have to live with me.
I have a grown child who will live with us on and off for the next few years.
Then I have a third child, their partner and 4 grandchildren who spend a lot of time with me.

Current thoughts are as follow, hopefully I will make a little more sense

*The conservatory to be removed for the extension.

*in the lobby the side exterior door will be bricked up to allow the toilet to be extended fully across forming the shower/wet room.
The Internal door from the small hall to removed and left open.

*the current kitchen then becomes a laundry & boot room, I have to have a good space for sorting clothing & hanging clothing to air, after operations especially, I can’t walk far or lift so can’t go hang laundry outside to dry, it’s important to ensure my independence, to still be able to do my own laundry.
We have a lot of shoes, coats & handbags between us!!

*The front door opens directly opens onto part wall & part stairs, this could cause me problems in the future.
I have a connective tissue disorder & spinal cord damage, I’m often in hospital & will need to use my walking aids and chair more as time goes on, my youngest has also inherited this, so there is a certain amount of future proofing for this for each of us. This space is so small and awkward coming into the house, so I was given two ideas for changing this -

1. To have a new staircase built, still in the same place but it has a small landing step and then turns 90° using some of the lounge space to achieve this.
2. Brick up the current front door, then fit a new front door where the current window is in the lobby.
   I know the concrete steps are near impossible to remove so If I take the drive back down impart to the level it was, I could be stuck with the original steps still.

*I like to bake and cook and have a lot of kitchen equipment, convenient storage & a good area of clear worktop space is essential. I love Kitchen islands but I’m guessing to maximise what I need for storage & worktop space a peninsula is more practical, which I’d like space for seating 2 to 3 people. I don’t want to be separated from guests when cooking. Space to get around easily with crutches or walking frame is important.

*in a perfect world I’d like an open plan kitchen with space for a dining table and a large sofa with TV area to sit and relax, with doors opening onto the garden, whilst having a separate lounge area with TV too, but I don’t think this is achievable in the space. So I thought in the extension, kitchen, dining table and just a couple of Sherlock chairs. I want to be able to sit in this area close to the garden especially when the grandchildren are round playing outside, or summer bbqs etc.

*The Lounge area has the double patio doors which will be removed. I’m unsure whether to have anything fitted in their place. Again ideally best of both worlds, to have a space fully open to the extension, but to be able to close it off too for the coziness but I think doors of any kind may just close it all in.
*the chimney breast will be removed, the whole stack top to bottom.
*DJ area: I thought not on the neighbouring wall so the neighbours don’t get any of the bass.
In the summer we have people on the decks for garden parties, so want them to be as close to the action as possible for the times we can’t be bothered to set them up outside. I thought the DJ set up might sit on what is currently the chimney breast wall by the patio door side. This whole wall could be like a full media centre, PC set up opposite side, the main TV with the amp & surround sound central.
Both the kitchen extension and lounge area would have a TV.

*the boiler is to be relocated downstairs in the current kitchen area, so as to then extend the bathroom to fit in a walk in shower using the current cupboard and the small area of the landing in front of it.

*bulk head in main bedroom, Will have a wardrobe space above, dressing table to the side, may be left as is or considering taking it down so it’s just the slope rathe than the big bulky square.

That all sounds great, I did design at Uni, specialising in Inclusive Design (design for disability), I have found the kitchens for lower mobility have been the most satisfying designs I've done so please let me know if I can help, there are so many things out there that can make you and your son's life easier without having to be disabled specific, it actually makes everyone's life easier.

Emily

Thankyou Emily, how much approximately does it cost to have a full house plan done, for a house of that size with the added extension?

Its a luxury that I’d thought the budget wouldn’t stretch to, it really is a shoe string budget, ownership of my current home is being passed onto my eldest & growing family so they could have a larger family friendly home, meaning I’ve no sales profit to forward on with me, just a very rigid budget.
I’m literally leaving everything, even accessories so I’m beginning from scratch & I’m now beginning to wonder if getting a designer involved could be the best option, to get it done right.
I’ve updated three homes through my years but it’s always been a little at a time whilst I’m living in the home so I’ve known how everything fits & how it could work better. Being much younger then, without my 3rd child with difficulties & not being homes I’d grow old in there were certainly not so many things to take into consideration!

Hi JJP,

Apologies in the delay.

I would love to be involved in the whole house design!

Package wise we offer design sessions by the hour as well as packages of between 5-15 hours (or more) depending on what you require. We can use the time flexibly.

That way if the budget is tight we can focus on the important rooms and add on other bits as and when you need them, and spend more or less time on anything you require. What matters the most is that we utilise the time the best we can and we get the layout and information you need to make the home work for you.

It may be worth us having an hour phone/zoom call which is free of charge just so we can run through things before starting any of the chargeable design sessions, that way we can touch on where to start as well as some of the objectives you have for the house to make sure we are spending the time on the right things.

It sounds like you are going through quite the journey and upheaval, if you use this direct link https://calendly.com/thekitchenladyuk/consultation this will take you to our calendar where you can book a time and date that is convenient for you so we can have a call/zoom chat.

Looking forward to speaking to you and being a part of designing your home that will work for you.

Emily

The Kitchen Lady UK

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