Will this devalue my home?

AceCobra

Hello,

I've read similar threads but nothing quite like what myself and my partner are considering.

We have thought about knocking our Kitchen/Dining room together and adding a sunroom at the end of the dining room. What we are now considering is having all 3 together with no french doors/arches just one huge room. Our Kitchen is 14*11, dining room 11*11 and the proposed sunroom we would like to be around 15*11. This would make a total room size of 40*11.

It looks fairly nice in my head but when we sold the house it would be 4 bed one reception as aposed to 4 bed and 3 reception :eek:

Advice welcome.

Martin.

ormus

dont do it.

ask the local estate agents first. im sure they will tell you the same.

BobProperty

40 x 11 is very long and thin. It won't look right IMHO.

Poppycat

My last house was open plan so I was glad to move into a house that wasn't. Although we do have a kitchen/dining room open plan, the living room has double doors and its so much nicer to have kids in one room watching tv whilst I am in the back in the dining room on pc.

AceCobra

What about just the Kicthen/Dining room then french doors to the sun room? or would you all advise keep all 3 seperate? The reason being we don't generally make use of the dining room and end up eating in the Kitchen. We've had the house a year and used the dining room 2 times.

Although if we had a sunroom off the end of the Dining room I'm sure we'd end up using it more then.

Many thanks.

Martin.

nifferwilko

Could you not put some form of doors that wouldn't be closed by you but "could" be closed to technically have seperate rooms.

But having the kitchen/dining room and then the sunroom seperate could work.

If you want a visual idea of how big the room could look, have you thought about going to somewhere like MFI for a room plan - then you can use them for their 3d software to get a visual picture?

adr0ck

i take it you also have a seperate living room

personally i would go for it.....as i like open plan living (you have seperate living room to keep kids out)

it all depends on how long your planning to be there?????

if you plan it right so that you can put up stud walls etc if need be when come to sell i don't see a problem (make sure rads etc in each seperate part as it were)

AceCobra

I'm begining to think it would be a bit silly having it that long. The Kitchen at the moment is big enough for the 2 of us to eat as we have no kids so maybe it would be better having french doors between the 3 rooms. We do indeed have another sitting room but I think its a little cramped (17*11.5) and we both liked the idea of a huge big room. I think its because in both of our parents house we mostly lived out of the Kicthen/dining room as they where the biggest. All said and done having the 3 rooms with double doors should hopefully give us that space.

Many thanks.

Martin.

Spendless

Hi, we knocked out the wall between our kitchen and DR as the kitchen was far too small. We've recently put in a downstairs loo and had a conservatory and this meant we had to knock a down the wall seperating the LR and DR, we are having doors put on this new space. The french doors that once opened onto the garden now open onto the conservatory.

I'm a fan of doors, if you knock thru rooms cos I think that gives you the best of both worlds, you can close them and all become seperate rooms, or have them all open and create one huge space, ideal if we have any parties at our house.

home_alone

My son has just bought a house were the previous owner had knocked down most of the internal downstairs walls. He has just finshed puting them all back again with double glass doors, the house looks a million $ now. He has his own plastering firm so the cost was not great.

gary

Doozergirl

The house I live in has had an extension built on the back reception room. It's ridiculous. At a guess it's about 22' x 11' and it is like a corridor. It's also very dark in the 'original' part of the room, despite having a full wall of windows at the end.

If you don't use the space now, I can see no benefit to you of spending extra to add more space. It really won't make you use it more. I'd be much more inclined to knock through the current two reception rooms to create one bigger lounge with the benefit of windows at either end of the room that are near enough to give plently of light to the entire room.

If you want the back room to be a sun room then why not investigate taking out the back wall of the house in that room, supporting it with RSJs and having sliding/folding doors which open right back to the walls and will really bring the garden in and cost far less than an extension? Add wooden flooring and you have the perfect room for summer parties!