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I am currently planning renovations for my kitchen which is very small and lacking in work surfaces.

DH and I have agreed on a design that works for us, but I am wondering if it will be a turn off if we were to sell.

All available space will be cupboards with kitchen benches on top and then overhead storage as well. No in wall section for fridge or freezer.

We will have them both out in our back room which is about a metre from the kitchen.

Would this be an issue for you when looking at houses?

Bel

[~lizzles~]

Well going off our own experience, no it wouldn't be an issue for us.

We bought a house in May this year and the first thing I noticed was a very small fridge hole/space. The hole was about the same height as me and we have a massive fridge.

We bought the house and worked around this 'small' problem. Currently have 2 fridges, bought a new one to fit the hole and our old fridge is stuffed in a corner in the family room. (it's off the kitchen). Mind you it is alot further than the 1m you speak.


Anyway.. rambling on, it actually sounds really nice. I say go for it

[Sinister Bonnet]

huge issue. It would be a dealbreaker, sorry

[Pearson]

I am currently planning renovations for my kitchen which is very small and lacking in work surfaces.

DH and I have agreed on a design that works for us, but I am wondering if it will be a turn off if we were to sell.

All available space will be cupboards with kitchen benches on top and then overhead storage as well. No in wall section for fridge or freezer.

We will have them both out in our back room which is about a metre from the kitchen.

Would this be an issue for you when looking at houses?

Bel

me too - huge issue, I cook a lot, and need the fridge right there. A Chest or secondary freezer can be somewhere else, but the fridge should be in the kitchen. I would look at some kitchen planning websites before making any definite decisions. The storage should be in another room perhaps? For things you dont use often, or have to move between all the time. eg, your electric appliances, like mixers and stuff.

I would view it as I would have to spend money on the kitchen, no matter how new it was, and not bother.

[FreeRangeBabies]

Yep... it would be a dealbreaker.

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Thanks for the replies, that's what I was afraid of...

The people who say it would be a deal breaker, would a kitchen with very little bench space (we are talking under 1.5m + sink area) also be a deal breaker.

At the moment we can have the jug and toaster out, but if we need anything else (blender etc) they have to be packed away.

The issue is not the storage, but the surface area, and our thoughts are if you have surface you may as well have storage below it.

We have tried a few of the kitchen design sites, it is a really hard room to work with, it has three doorways and a big window on the one wall without a door.

Bel

[insomniac]

A kitchen with very little bench space would annoy me. Is it possible to put in an island bench in the middle of the room to accommodate all the door ways and have more space? Or fill in one doorway?

This post has been edited by insomniac: 19/08/2010, 07:19 PM

[donnam]

Dealbreaker for me too.

Have you considered resizing the window. Our kitchen had 3 doorways and an over bench window and a large window 600mm from the floor. We resized the large window to an over bench window and it allowed us to drastically change our kitchen. If you are worried about losing light you could get a solartube to compensate.

HTH

[LK1]

What's in your back room?
Can you extend the space by knocking out a wall?

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Hopefully this works...



Just a really basic outline of the room.

No way to expand out because the toilet and laundry back onto the room. The window is almost to the ceiling above the sink, and is wider then the sink.

Initially we had wanted to move the bathroom and expand into there, but have now been told removing that wall isn't feasible.

At the moment the fridge and freezer are small ones so microwave and breadbins are stored on them.

Bel