victorian kitchen extension. With a ?utility? room

[alice]

How does it work? all my sketches seem to block light or create weird useless spaces.

[healey]

It certainly didn't work for us. Our house had a lean-to kitchen utility room extension when we bought it. We ripped it all out to create a open space with full-width patio and skylight - a common solution of course.

[alex_b]

We looked at it, but it didn?t make sense for us in terms of flow, use of space or cost. In the end we stacked our washer and drier in a purpose build cupboard in the kitchen which hides it all away without taking too much space.

[alice]

Thanks for that. Any other layouts please?

[Frenchy]

We found a way to sneak the washing machine and tumble dryer into some unusable kitchen space but accessible from 'outside' the kitchen (and isolated from the kitchen itself somewhat - so less noise). Which sounds very convoluted now I've written it down.

I suppose it's only really one-up from having the w/m and t/d in the kitchen in a cupboard - and definitely doesn't qualify as a 'utility room'.

Depends how much having them rumbling away in the kitchen proper would annoy you. For us, it would have been 'a lot' so anything is better than nothing.

[Peachpie]

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[stringvest]

Is the kitchen space large and square? Large and rectangular? My kitchen has a narrow rectangular utility on the back of it, its the width of the kitchen. There are two windows on the longest wall, back door into the garden on the shortest wall to the right. There is a separate WC on the shortest wall to the left, then is the sink and drainer with cupboards above.

wall .... window....wall ....window .....

double sink washer dryer freezer ...... floor cupboards

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WC ........ floor space ........ back door

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long kitchen wall: half glazed door, then brick wall with window panel in it allowing light from utility windows into kitchen.

KITCHEN ....

GOOD LUCK

Does that help?

I may re-jig this utility room: Remove sink and drainer so that american fridge freezer stands in current sink space on left ... put sink under window for garden view ....

[JDR]

We are about to do work and decided to close off the current corridor into the kitchen and enter only via the door that goes out of our current dining area. It means we will have only one entry into the kitchen, can put washing machine and tumble dryer in the now closed corridor and then our kitchen area will be on the near end of new extension meaning dining area can look directly into the garden. I know others don?t like this idea but our current dining area is poorly used so storage/ desk/ piano area and part corridor is a better use for us

[chuff]

We built a false wall at the back of the kitchen and housed the fridge freezer in the centre then doors either side to washer/dryer and a pantry cupboard on the other side. They are larger spaces than usual kitchen cupboards so you can actually stand inside but not a true utility room.

[Mick Mac]

alex_b Wrote:

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> We looked at it, but it didn?t make sense for us

> in terms of flow, use of space or cost. In the end

> we stacked our washer and drier in a purpose build

> cupboard in the kitchen which hides it all away

> without taking too much space.

Same here. I'd say utility rooms take up a lot of space best used other ways. We got rid of ours when we did a side return.

[alice]

Thanks all.