Owning your own home

Was this in response to @greenhell comment on the kitchen-diner in the overpriced Faversham house?

I like it in theory. In practice ours feels a bit of design failure though... We have a slightly different layout but same basic principle. We've been in there two years and I've never quite managed to get it to my liking. Despite having been knocked though it can be quite gloomy down there. A badly conceived extension to the east side of a north-facing garden blocks all sunlight from the back and to half the garden.

The fact that it's two room knocked though and at lower ground level means very little direct light gets in from the front either. The two-rooms into one thing also makes the space really hard to use effectively. Almost all the external walls are already taken by units, fireplace, meter cupboard, stairs etc so there's practically nowhere to put furniture. There's only one bit of wall not already covered against which you could put a sofa or dining table and that's right by the front door (which opens straight into the room) and miles from the only place it makes sense to put the TV. The front bay window isn't big enough to have the (modest) dining table in (it's a different shape to next door). The island in our kitchen means no room for a table there either. Badly designed island (two back to back Magnet units with a cheap marble top) means no space for stools round that either so i'm left with a kitchen-cum-front room with a chronic "where do I put the table?" issue. Having it by the door feels bleak and drafty, the middle of the room just looks weird and takes up the whole space... have ended up with it sort of near the kitchen island with just enough to squeeze chairs between it and the table. Whole thing wants ripping out and redesigning really.

I'd love an architect to come and look at the whole thing and offer up a solution that utilizes the space better. Like I said. Nice houses. Need a bit of work to make them worth the asking I reckon.