Kitchen Fitting

Understanding the complexity involved of moving the existing kitchen

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.06 PM

We live in the South-East (Worthing area) and have a terraced home (built in the last 9 years) and would like to create a more open-plan feel on the ground floor. We currently have a very typical new build floorplan - entrance hall, WC and kitchen at the front of the house, french doors from kitchen lead to the living room at the back (which contains a small dining table) and french doors that lead out to our garden. A path leads from our garden, around the neighbours garden, and to our garage and driveway. We are looking at a single storey 5m x 3.5m extension (with pitched roof and velux windows) on the back of our house into the garden. We have two ideas for this space: 1 - The “easy” option: create a dining room in the new extension, allowing the living room to be used just as a living room, and update the kitchen with new appliances, cabinetry, worktops etc 2 - The complex (and costly) option: moving the kitchen into the extension and having a dining room in what was the old kitchen. If possible, I would rather shell out for the second option as I think the flow from living room through the kitchen and into the garden would be far nicer and it creates that wide open living/kitchen space I'm really after. But logistically (bearing in mind that we are a terraced house and obviously considering party wall agreements) not sure how possible this would be to transfer waste, plumbing, boiler, gas and electric to the back of the house. As far as I know, the ground floor flooring is concrete, which maybe makes this idea a non-starter. So after all this, the question I pose is can the second idea be done in principle? And is there anything glaringly obvious that I should have thought about? Many thanks in advance for any advice