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Thank you all for making me consider whether I really want a lounge dining space all in one. I think weighing it all up, I still do as I don’t like my kids being confined to another room while we spend so much time in the kitchen, but good to be considering this again rather than taking it as a given I will! Thanks

It’s also great to be able to keep an eye on my young kids... I understand we won’t want it when they are older but for now it would be ideal. They can move to their toy room when they are older and want more space to watch their own stuff....

Hahaha yep! Who knows ?

Thank you and I agree. It’s also about having space to make a hot drink and still relax with guests (when we’re allowed them!) My husband does most the cooking nowadays... So not just women ?

I wish we had time. I will have to settle for a lot of thinking and all the advice we can get....

Wow reading this again and we hadn't considered moving the stairs but might be a great option... thank you, instead of working around the stairs, move them!

Great question as hadnt thought about this

The brown house. The living room currently, note fireplace Current kitchen Hope these help!

Yes sorry I had meant back extension all along and definitely not moving any stairs or hallway etc. Wow ok. What do you think our budget should be up to?

I dont even understand what you mean but it sounds interesting, please can you elaborate?

So much food for thought, it's brilliant and just what we need before we get the builders to look and quote. We don't even know what we want, so how can we expect builders to quote us! Unfortunately we cannot afford to pay for 2 home mortgages for longer than 6 months really, then looking to rent the current home ASAP. Avoid a rabbit warren house meaning lots of through rooms? Thank you for your thoughts!

No notplanning on using the hall, sorry for the confusion. Wouldn't going into the garden make it a back extension? Sorry for confusing you! Wouldn't it make much of a difference? Please can you explain why? Yes we had estimated around 60k costs for engineering alone, hoping that 40k does the rest.... Guess we want american size house in an west london home... Thank you for your thoughts.

Yep thankfully the outside has a huge drive to fit a few cars so rather convert that space to an office for now, then my in laws will live with us eventually so thinking long term in case they one day need a wheelchair etc and for convenience. This is exactly why I posted on here, thank you. Not having a clue about building we wondered whether splitting that space width ways would work. Not wanting to fill the space between the garage and porch really, but its definitely worth a consideration, hadn't considered that window being affected, its my fave feature of the house! Using the above laundry as a walkway (which it already is) and making the bathroom longer (down into space of the garage) is a good idea. I really want a utiity space though so maybe I need to use a corner of the larger room. Laundry upstairs apparently is a no go Main reason for making ensuite is the future reason but I guess no point if its not easily accessible from the room... Thank you for your thoughts!

We absolutely love this idea and funnily enough had been thinking of large windows on either side of a door as agreed, in the UK weather we would rarely open it up fully and 10k on set of doors is ridiculous. I love the window seat idea and this way keeping the central pier, are you at the above stage? Would love to see more pictures when you have them! Thank you for your thoughts!

Haha yes but thankfully that isn’t my issue at the minute ?

Sorry to add full floor plan

Thank you all for your replies and so sorry for the confusion! Just put in whatever stairs I could for now on the IKEA app to try to explain my changes (architect drawings still to be sketched as very early stages) but I can assure you, we don’t plan to touch the stairs, although they are the biggest problem! Interesting suggestion to move the lower steps but I think we may have to work with them as they are... Unfortunately the garage seems completely separate apart from the current entrance to it and can’t be accessed from the house easily (detached house pic below) but I can ask my builders about it... we don’t mind not being able to access it from the front door though. We have estimated about 100k for all the work and are hoping to do it all over the next 6 months. Happy to lose the garage, using half for an office and so glad to lose the dining room to the abyss of toys we have accumulated. We definitely need a shower so interesting suggestion to make it a separate room at the back! Not sure about the toilet under the stairs as I lose access to the space under the second deck of stairs and was hoping to make this into a closet, see 2nd pic of what we are now thinking (scrapped the idea of a closet as we want access to the wc from the hallway and sorry tried to lay the hallway out better on the planning app though the stairs aren’t correctly placed and end outside the house!

Haha I did notice your screen name and thought we might be friends ?

Hi all, So we are about to get the keys for the below floorplan and would like to extend it out by 3 or 4 metres. The difficulty is that we want to add in all of the below too: a utility room office closet for coats bathroom. The layout of the downstairs makes all of this difficult without having to use rooms to enter others, please can I have suggestions of what you would do? I created the below as we thought like most other conversions, we have 9 metres worth of patio doors along the back wall, but if you'd totally change this, please feel free, as I am not loving having to go through the utility and office just to go to the toilet but also cant put the door at the front in the hallway or else we won't have space for a closet which will also give us access to the space under the 2 flights of stairs (image not perfect but best I could do on an app!). We would like the bathroom to have a small shower cubicle too somehow as may need to use the office downstairs as a bedroom for grandparent one day.... We will look into gaining entry to the office through the front of the house but not sure this will be possible without adding huge costs and it is our forever home so not worried about potential selling costs in the future too much. Appreciate any advice! Thanks

Hi All! Just writing hello here before I pose a question in the kitchen section of this forum, undertaking a huge project soon, extending out 4 metres, knocking out a living room wall and building a utility, bathroom and offie and really need some help on the layout of my rooms and kitchens. Hope you are all well!