Cost - Removing downstairs bathroom to make kitchen bigger

YoungBlueEyes

I'd be wary of making the new end of the kitchen/old wc end too dark. You only have one window - at the front - and none in the wc, is that right? Which way round does your house face? 

A long skinny dark kitchen and no downstairs loo would put me off tbh.

Murphybear

annabanana82 said:

Regards the downstairs toilet, this is top of our priority list in looking for a new home, without we can't really have elderly relatives to visit. May not impact the price but may impact the saleability 

I had a total knee replacement when I was 58, not exactly elderly.  We didn’t have a downstairs loo, going up and downstairs was a nightmare.  

silvercar

We just removed what was a stud wall between our kitchen and utility room. Even though it was a stud wall it (or the corner of it) provided lateral support to the rest of the house. We had to go through building regs, get in a structural engineer, add a couple of RSJs.....a lot more than we had originally expected.

jrawle

The standard 2 bed terraced houses on new estates near me are open between the kitchen and hallway, presumably because they are very small and this makes the kitchen seem less cramped (and probably there would be no room to open a door). So it must be allowed by the regs. I personally wouldn't want to buy a house with either no kitchen door or no downstairs WC.

OP if you really don't want a downstairs WC, could you turn the room into a utility room, with your washing machine in there? Then it would be easier to reinstate for the next owners.

Arsenal2019

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'd be wary of making the new end of the kitchen/old wc end too dark. You only have one window - at the front - and none in the wc, is that right? Which way round does your house face? 

A long skinny dark kitchen and no downstairs loo would put me off tbh.

Hi

yes youre right. There’s no window in the bathroom currently. If I was to remove the bathroom and have  larger kitchen, it would just be a long corridor as the kitchen with the one window in there which is currently present. The window is at the front of the house which is north facing 

Arsenal2019

silvercar said:

We just removed what was a stud wall between our kitchen and utility room. Even though it was a stud wall it (or the corner of it) provided lateral support to the rest of the house. We had to go through building regs, get in a structural engineer, add a couple of RSJs.....a lot more than we had originally expected.

I presume it was an expensive job for all of that? As I may have to have that, along with a new& bigger kitchen 

Arsenal2019

jrawle said:

The standard 2 bed terraced houses on new estates near me are open between the kitchen and hallway, presumably because they are very small and this makes the kitchen seem less cramped (and probably there would be no room to open a door). So it must be allowed by the regs. I personally wouldn't want to buy a house with either no kitchen door or no downstairs WC.

OP if you really don't want a downstairs WC, could you turn the room into a utility room, with your washing machine in there? Then it would be easier to reinstate for the next owners.

I could potentially as that may create more cupboard space in the kitchen- I hadn’t really thought of that to be honest 

jonnydeppiwish!

user1977 said:

jonnydeppiwish! said:

However, have you thought about just opening the doorway to the hallway up?

I presume building regs require a door between the kitchen and the stairs (even if the residents were happy with the fire risk and noise/smells rising upstairs).

Doozergirl seems to think not but if you’re staying and not selling, you wouldn’t necessarily tell BC?, 

pinkshoes

Arsenal2019 said:

Hello all

i I am in the process of buying a house and I have a question for all. I would like to remove the downstairs bathroom as the kitchen is very small, and I would like to make the kitchen bigger.

i have attached a photo of the floor plan for sizes…

I would like to know how much it would cost to remove the bathroom, wall up the bathroom door frame and take down the partitioned wall between the kitchen & bathroom?

I know it’s going to be a rough idea but I haven’t had the chance to ask anyone yet, nor do I really know what tradesmen would be  best to ask

additionally, would getting rid of the downstairs loo for a bigger kitchen de-value the house?? Has anyone had experience of this 

thanks

Put the kitchen at the back of the house where the living room is, then get rid of the hall way wall so you come into the living room. That way you get a cosy living room, a downstairs toilet, and a much bigger kitchen that you could open out to the garden. 

BarelySentientAI

pinkshoes said:

Arsenal2019 said:

Hello all

i I am in the process of buying a house and I have a question for all. I would like to remove the downstairs bathroom as the kitchen is very small, and I would like to make the kitchen bigger.

i have attached a photo of the floor plan for sizes…

I would like to know how much it would cost to remove the bathroom, wall up the bathroom door frame and take down the partitioned wall between the kitchen & bathroom?

I know it’s going to be a rough idea but I haven’t had the chance to ask anyone yet, nor do I really know what tradesmen would be  best to ask

additionally, would getting rid of the downstairs loo for a bigger kitchen de-value the house?? Has anyone had experience of this 

thanks

Put the kitchen at the back of the house where the living room is, then get rid of the hall way wall so you come into the living room. That way you get a cosy living room, a downstairs toilet, and a much bigger kitchen that you could open out to the garden. 

Toilet in the living room?  Interesting choice.