Where to start? Knocking down 2 walls to open up kitchen into dining room.

ellie27

We have been in our new home now 9 months. Never done any work to any of the houses we have previously lived in.

We have a dining room and separate kitchen, a doorway joins them and a wall too.

Ideally in our head we could (not,actually us! We mean builders!) ...

-knock down the wall between kitchen and dining room - this is a solid wall, an external wall as the kitchen was added as an extension about 15 yrs ago.

-knock down wall between cupboard and dining room, another solid wall.

Both walls will no doubt be load-bearing walls.

-also change a doorway- block up the door into the cupboard and move the entry doorway into new kitchen diner.

This would create a room of size 5.3m x 5m which we would hope to be big enough for a kitchen/diner area.

The external wall at the back currently just has a window, but we would like some kind of doors onto the garden.

And we would do a new kitchen too.

Where do we start? Do we need builders/joiners/plumbers/electricians.....?? Or do some builders do the lot?

Do we get the walls knocked down and doors put in by builders and then see what space we have then look at kitchens?

How do you tie it all in to get done at the same time?

Many thanks!

JEN22

A builder would do this for you