Advice needed - open plan or not...

dogeyknees

Hi,

Bought an old house a few years ago and there was an annex at the back. The house needed to be gutted and have spent the last 3 years redoing it and im only finally getting to the annex now. I was planning on just putting in sliding doors out to the back garden and insulating it/ renovating it and leaving it as a utility room.

Now that i have knocked the doors out to it, its letting a ton more light in and makes the kitchen massive (its quite a large kitchen already). Im not sure whether to leave it as an open plan or to put a utility room back in? I going to sell the house next year (getting married and building a house with the wifey to be), so i was wondering which would be a better selling feature for a house - utility room or open plan kitchen looking out onto the garden?

I have uploaded a quick plan of the kitchen, the window in the kitchen is quite large but doesn't get a whole lot of light and the sliding doors in the annex go from floor to ceiling for the entire length of one side of the annex.

JuliusCaesar

Open plan is grand if you have small children. When they get older it's a pain. For myself, I hate the noise of the washing machine, so I'd much prefer to have it somewhere I can close the door on it.

What kind of market will there be for the house?

STForSale

Open plan will have the wow factor, but if you want paractical living space, put the utility back. Don't really see the lack of a utility room being a deal breaker for most.

confused....

Would def put the Utility Room Back, its a deal breaker for lots of people, definitely anyone who is not on their first house.