knocking kitchen and dining room into one.

jadebabe

Hi, we currently have a seperate kitchen and dining room, but are thinking of making the two rooms into one. we would then have a breakfast bar seperating the two. our kitchen is quite small so we thought it would open up the space, b ut would this de value the house ,by not having a seperate dining room, any help appreciated thanks.

vansboy

Sounds a good idea to me - bet you'd have loads more spacein appearence, anyway, as well as better use of the areas.

Make sure the walls are removed properly, of course!!

VB

money_savy

Dont think this is devalue the house cos I recently bought a house where they had removed the wall between the kitchen and the dining and this hasn't devalued the house. Just one thing to keep in mind is to make sure that there is an extra radiator or heating source to cover the whole area.

wiggly

I suppose it depends on what kind of property you have. We have a victoria terrace and I don't think it would be well received if we knocked the kitchen into the dining area as it would remove the original layout too much

but on other properties I would imagine it would be a great use of space

poppyolivia

When we bought this house the previous owner had already done it so that basically sold the house for us cause it is fab...everyone comments on it and say they wish they had it!! We have an extension though that we can use for a dining room if we wish but a table fits fine in the kitchen and the kids have a tv room instead.
Just think when the kids have flown the nest I can have a dead posh dining room.....oooooh a girl can dream!!!:L:L
As for devalueing the property I honestly don't think it will. If anything people will love the wow factor than 2 tiny rooms.
Good luck xxx

Doozergirl

From experience of selling identical houses with different walls removed, it doesn't affect the value at all.

A lot of younger people prefer the open kitchen/diner, older people seem to prefer the traditional layout. Not that many people like the entire downstairs open plan!

Whits

I've recently done this in my house with absolutely no knowledge of DIY :eek:

I had to remove the wall because the kitchen was only big enough to have one person in. Once I'd removed the wall, we actually thought we'd made a mistake as it looked way too big, but once the new kitchen was in we knew it was well worth it.

If it's any help, our house is a 1970's semi and the kitchen is now 14' by 10'.

HTH

arnie&caseysma!

If you watch all the programmes these days you will end up adding value by doing this as more and more people prefer an area where you can cook and entertain at the same time instead of having to shout from room to room whilst finishing off a meal.........

ormus

i take the opposite view. the open look of the 1970s had past its sell by date.
most peeps i speak to, prefer separate rooms now.

maybe the young uns dont mind the joined up look.

poppyroberta

We are hoping to knock a wall through in order to create that open kitchen living space but as member "wiggly" mentioned it does all depend on your house and how many rooms you have.

We will still have 2 reception rooms and it's a large house so a large kitchen dining space would be ideal and well received should and when we decide to sell. If you live in a small property then this may not be the case.

Best thing to do is ask your local estate agents what they think and if this would be the right thing to do for your property/area.

Hope that helps in some way.

vansboy

& as a 'by the way', talking to our Asian neghbors, they are really keen on houses with space, but also with 2 seperate downstairs rooms.

They ladies like to be able to keep their chat private & kick us blokes out, on our own!!

Now that's not such a bad idea!!

VB