Is this feasible? Plan for adding bifold doors to 1930s house

[anopenmind]

We are a family of five (could become 6 in the future) that has outgrown our 3 bedroom house, and have put the house on the market (it sold within four days!) and are looking for a bigger home. We have found a big 1930s house which is in budget, and we hope to be able to modernise it by joining the kitchen and dining room, and putting bifold doors across the back of the house. The issue is that the house wall isn't a straight line, so we might need to add an extension to the rear to create the rear profile we'd need for wide bifold doors. We need to figure this out and decide if we want to put an offer in for the house or not.

The current floor plan of the area we'd like to modify is like this:



It looks like this at the rear of the house:





What we'd like to do with it is to join the dining room to the kitchen, remove the bay window on the dining room and somehow add large rear bifold doors to the back of the house, to make a large open plan area, e.g. (excuse the crude pictures):



BUT – we think the rear of the building might be a problem, as it isn't a straight line where we would want to add the bifold doors:



We think we could maybe solve this by adding a small extension to the rear of the building, like this:






And we reckon we'd likely need a steel where the wall between the dining room and kitchen used to be, and probably some steels underneath the walls to the rear of the house that we'd be removing.

Would this would be reasonably achievable, and does anyone have any idea what is this likely to cost (roughly)?

 

[cdbe]

Certainly physically possible. Can't help with costs but expensive and disruptive - and whatever it did cost would make a sizeable contribution towards a new rear kitchen diner extension, especially if you plan to replace the kitchen anyway and are living there while the work is done.

 

[Higgy28]

Definitely possible to do, but for the cost you might as well add a larger extension on.

 

[^woody^]

Will look crap. It throws the whole rear elevation out of balance.

Plus the landscaping work with the levels.

All for the latest fad, used a few weeks a year at most.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Will look crap. It throws the whole rear elevation out of balance.

Plus the landscaping work with the levels.

All for the latest fad, used a few weeks a year at most.

Err I'd disagree there on throwing the ele out of balance but the other two are worthy considerations, seems to have been a long running fad this one!