Kitchen layout thoughts
Discussion
Recently I decided to give our kitchen a refresh and paint the cabinets... started with the utility and couldn’t get a finish that I was happy with 
Fast forward a few days and I’m starting to get quotes for entire new units but sticking to the original plan of keeping the same layout... except somehow this feels like it won’t seem like money well spent.
We originally though about extending the house out the back and opening it all up but the likely cost (assuming 50-80k) isn’t do-able.
So I’m open to ideas on whether there are any changes we could make to the current kitchen without extending. The utility wall isn’t load bearing but ideally it’d stay as it keeps the cat food and laundry separate.
Current layout and pic:
The whole kitchen is 3.6m wide and 5.3m long. It is a nice room and works well in practice. The layout of the doors is making it too awkward to look at any kind of island or breakfast bar I think?
Anything you would change from these pics?
Fast forward a few days and I’m starting to get quotes for entire new units but sticking to the original plan of keeping the same layout... except somehow this feels like it won’t seem like money well spent.
We originally though about extending the house out the back and opening it all up but the likely cost (assuming 50-80k) isn’t do-able.
So I’m open to ideas on whether there are any changes we could make to the current kitchen without extending. The utility wall isn’t load bearing but ideally it’d stay as it keeps the cat food and laundry separate.
Current layout and pic:
The whole kitchen is 3.6m wide and 5.3m long. It is a nice room and works well in practice. The layout of the doors is making it too awkward to look at any kind of island or breakfast bar I think?
Anything you would change from these pics?
Seems like the general consensus so far is similar to mine... to improve the kitchen we'd need to look at extending and moving walls around. Our long term goal is to extend across the full width of the back of the house by around 2-3m, then open up the wall between kitchen and lounge, move the lounge/dining room wall back a bit to create a separate snug at the front... the main problem is cash flow means we can't do this.
For reference, we love the large hallway and ideally wouldn't make it any smaller, especially given the other rooms aren't cramped because of it! I haven't got any up to date photos as we've redecorated but this gives you an idea of the size.
There is already a table/chairs at the other end of the kitchen but we rarely use these at all. Dining room does get used a reasonable amount when we have guests over and you can get 10 people in without much of a squeeze.
I think given the kitchen itself is in good condition i'll get another few quotes for painting it professionally before deciding what to do. Already had one at £1100, but they'd be coming down from manchester so i'm hoping someone local can beat it.
For reference, we love the large hallway and ideally wouldn't make it any smaller, especially given the other rooms aren't cramped because of it! I haven't got any up to date photos as we've redecorated but this gives you an idea of the size.
There is already a table/chairs at the other end of the kitchen but we rarely use these at all. Dining room does get used a reasonable amount when we have guests over and you can get 10 people in without much of a squeeze.
I think given the kitchen itself is in good condition i'll get another few quotes for painting it professionally before deciding what to do. Already had one at £1100, but they'd be coming down from manchester so i'm hoping someone local can beat it.
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