Kitchen/diner add value?

[Doggit]

But can you reuse the kitchen, or at least parts of it. I know you don't want to do this (and it's totally your choice), but it is actually doable.

At the end of the day, you gotta ask yourself, just how much do you love your wife.

 

[rsbhj]

The only way to do it re using the kitchen is to cut the plasterboard wall not actually take it down fully, but does not give you the same full effect, yes it would be open but not great and would cost around £5k with the patio door, without the doors, £2k . I would also lose kitchen cupboard space about 3 top cupboards and my tall fridge space.

The was the original idea but decided it would look not quite right

 

[Doggit]

Post some pictures if you want to discuss it further. But when I say reuse the kitchen, I meant take it apart carefully, and then reuse what you've got in a different layout, maybe adding a few more units, and if necessary, new doors. I managed to reuse the oak worktops on the last job, and saved the client about £500.

 

[rsbhj]

first upload is my curent layout, edited from another schedule to similar house, my layout is other way round, so hall on right, livingroom on left, kitchen on right, dinningroom on left.

second upload is what I would want to achieve.

Looking online at similar houses the transformation is massive, and does look so much better that the 2 rooms.

 

[rsbhj]

Original option was to do this, cut the plasterboard wall (see photo remove the red section, we would lose 3 kitchen units by doing this, but would create a breakfast bar not bother with the patio doors, basically just to open the space up as cheaply as possible.

It wouldn't have the full open space feel, but maybe enough to get what we would like.

 

[rsbhj]

prob end up with something like this to give a idea

 

[Doggit]

I would suggest you ignore the breakfast bar, block up the door from the kitchen to the lounge (which will make the lounge more usable), and move the kitchen to the other side of the room in a U shape; and I'd consider Bi-fold doors if possible. Breakfast bars don't tend to get used much after they are first installed, and you gravitate towards the kitchen table instead, so why bother with it in the first place. However putting in a return can give you more storage space, but with the doors on the dining area side rather than the kitchen side.

 

[rsbhj]

Kitchen has to stay that side (concrete floors). Bi folding doors not an option too pricey.

If I’m doing this is min amount possible for full refurb

I love a breakfast bar

However I’ve not heard one case for doing this. If I was staying in the house for next 5,6 maybe 7 years I’d do it but for 2,3 years I’m wasting cash.