Extension - kitchen/diner advice

houseowner81

Apologies if this is the wrong forum to write this, but any advice would be appreciated.

I live in a 3 bed semi, and downstairs consists of a decent size living room in the front, a small kitchen and a separate dining room. The side of the house is an empty space (basically a car port) beside the kitchen.

I am looking into the possibility of adding a small extension on the side of the house, where the kitchen is, using the side car port space. This space is approx 2X3.5m square. this is in order to update our kichen/dining space. My wife and myself are trying to agree what to do from the below options:

1) complete extension, knocking side wall, and have patio doors onto our small garden. This would mean we have no side access to the back garden then. The rooms downstairs would include living room, kitchen/diner, extra living room. The quote we have for this work is £13k (includes building of extension, patio doors, plumbing, electrics, plastering, painting, putting in new kitchen, completing small patio area outside patio doors, I need to supply kitchen and slabs for patio)

2)do not complete extension and knock in wall between kitchen and dining room to have a new kitchen come diner. this would mean one less room downstairs but slightly larger kitchen/diner.

3) complete option 1 and 2 together. would mean a very large kitchen/dining area but lose side access to garden.

From the 3 options above, what would have the most positive impact on the house value (especially when wanting to re-mortgage or sell in the future?)

Also, does the quote I receive sound reasonable?

Thank you in advance

andrewf75

Can't comment on what it would do to house value, but side access to the garden is important for us and we were put off houses which didn't have it.

Quote sounds very reasonable.

drusilla

Have you got more than one quote? That sounds a little too good to be true.

What is your square metre-age? On here the cost of 1m square seems to be £1000 minimum. Then you are putting in a kitchen and a patio.

I hope that it is a good and realistic price for your sake. It would be terrible to see you back on here reporting cowboy builders.

Good luck with your ideas and let us know how you get on.:D

Cisco001

£13k is a bit cheap...

clayton16749

From what I've read about extensions, £13k sounds a bit on the cheap side.


I've seen lots of houses in my area selling lately that have the dining room knocked through into the kitchen. Suppose it depends on personal choice - I myself I am very happy that I have a separate lounge, dining room and kitchen and I personally wouldn't want a large open plan living space. But that's down to individual choice.


Could you extend backwards instead of sideways?

houseowner81

thanks all for the comments. its only about 7 meters squared so its not a big extension. have had several quotes, another one cheaper than this quote, the other 2 well over 20k. the patio is a very small job, literally enough space for a couple of chairs and small table. the guy has got good reviews and references. just worried ill pick one option then regret it (suppose its the chance you take)

houseowner81

forgot to add, cant extend onto back because we have a small garden so would lose the space. we are expecting our first child too (and with a dog too) we are just trying to find out what the best ption is