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Side extension with knock through into 2nd reception (now "snug").
It's worked out well, although it means no direct natural light into what was the 2nd reception. The entrance is where the window was. But that just makes it more "snug".
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We are in the process of revealing an existing knock through; victorian mid-terrace, living room into dining room. The existing steel, untouched for decades and with the void below hidden behind plasterboard, has been found to be basically unsupported at one end, building control aren't happy with building the other end of the steel into the party wall, we're having to get a steel frame put in (four sides of steel!), lifting floorboards either side of the divide, digging down for foundations across the whole run. Large expense, large disruption, little benefit. Should have left it all alone and spent the cash on something shiny like a new bathroom or kitchen.
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ChasnotRobert
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I don’t want to knock it all through completely, but at present the second reception room is dead living space and is basically a glorified hallway into the kitchen (although very alive storage space for bikes, among other things). Knocking through into either the living room, or preferably into the kitchen, where we spend most of our time anyway, would be what we’d want to do.