Is this houses’ floorplan too cursed to buy?

Storage room is never a waste of space. That would be garden storage so you could keep in there bikes, lawnmower, cushions for garden furniture (and the furniture itself out of season), gardening stuff etc.

i like the corridor option even though those rooms will be a bit separate to the rest of the house? Knock down conservatory and build extension to house kitchen and open up to the store at the back, kitchen / diner / utility? Quite nice to keep the garage separate. Existing dining room and kitchen become office, playroom, sitting room?

I would love to see the listing/floor plan for upstairs, altogether understand if you don't want to.

I take it the dark black indicates chimneys?

you can never use bedroom 5 as a bedroom! everyone has to traipse throught it to get to the toilet! and that store at the back is a waste of space!!

You need George Clarke! I love watching his programmes, especially Old House New Home and Ugly House to Lovely House. Both those programmes have houses with bonkers layouts and he helps the owners sort it out.

Contact channel 4 and see if you can do it! :-)

Personally I would:

1. Make the current dining room into a kitchen or kitchen/diner.
2. Turn the family room into kids playroom or a den/games/crafts type room for hobbies. Or even a library. Or you can turn it into the dining room instead. It's nice that it leads into the conservatory too.
3. Turn the current kitchen into a general storage/utility room for pantry stuff/laundry/mudroom/pet room/cycle storage/ etc which you can access from indoors, as opposed to the other one outside.
4. The current pantry could become a small home office place instead if needed, or a small library/cosy reading/study nook.
5. Sitting room can remain a sitting room.

id maybe move the front door to here the dining room front widow is and have it as a large entrance hall with some built in storage.

I think the pantry location is odd but I think it seems cool

This is the layout from my Dad's old house! It also had a spiral staircase going up from Family Room! It's great if you want a Granny Flat on the ground floor but otherwise it's really weird having a bathroom off a sitting room.

It’s up to you really. I have family with a very similar layout downstairs actually, the dining room space is essentially a foyer with a coat and shoe rack, few plants etc and not a functioning room but a large area to go through to the family room or sitting room

What? The entire floor plan makes no sense. It’s terribly designed. "Rambly" would be generous.

Not RTFT but my first reaction would be to square off the part between the garage and conservatory somehow, permanent build the conservatory if it wasn’t already and make all into a massive kitchen diner/ open plan living space. That way you could shuffle the kitchen towards the pantry if you wished. Looks amazing and the kind of project I’d love!

There’s masses of potential there , without converting the garage ,
it really about your budget for Renovation
and about your needs ,
I would start will a list of all works needed ie windows , roof , heating, bathrooms etc
then you will know what you have to work with
Think about where the soil pipes etc are
no point taking it on if your budget is to tight

Yes, my views exactly.

It's very "bitty" and it looks as though there are two really deep walls which are chimney breasts. It would be difficult/expensive to remove them if you want to open up the rooms to make a better layout. And why a downstairs bathroom? It looks like a sizeable house so there should be enough rooms for bathrooms upstairs. Someone has made a real pigs ear of adding odds and ends of rooms to it, including that big storage room which is presumably taking up room in the garden without providing an actual room you can live in.
It's probably redeemable but why would you bother? I'd buy something with a better layout, you'll have to do a lot of expensive work spend to make it practical.

Just employ an architect rather than asking random bobs on Mumsnet.

Design is OK to me. You could have the dining room as an ''entrance room'' just off the main door but have a table with fold down leaves and chairs against walls if not in use. Can you eat in kitchen mostly and keep ''dining room'' for occasions?
I would widen the door way that leads out of dining room to the living room to open up area.

I would add a hall at the front, take the edge off the living room and turn the pantry into a cloakroom.
I would also extend the space next to the conservatory and kitchen, stick a proper roof/doors on the lot and remove walls so the dining room and kitchen spaces both flow through to the back, ideally with a retractable wall to choose when to open up or close off the two spaces. The extra space is enough for a pantry and utility room though where you would put them depends on your light.
Edit to say: keep the garage!

Amazing potential, as long as you can afford to remove some walls.

Would it not have an impact on any remodelling plans with it being Grade 2 listed? Not that I have any idea how easy it is to get permission in that situation, just wondering!

This looks very expensive to do!! Are you sure it would be worth it? You’d have to take chimneys out, a lot of structural support on the load bearing walls. Unless you have a lot of cash and aren’t worried about resale value, I wouldn’t touch it!!

I have to say that I formed my reply on this thread on the basis of a family looking for a home for years to come as a unit, not as a project for a single parent looking to be done with a mortgage and talking about a home suitable for retirement years in the future.

If I needed contributions from an adult child in order to keep running the house I have now and my youngest child was 15, I'd be looking at a more modern house, energy efficient and little work to make it suit, not a period property that had lots of unsuitable rooms and needed a lot of alterations. We only have a ground floor plan, but I'd imagine the property would be expensive to maintain and run on a monthly basis on top of the outlay for updating and remodelling.

Oh, I definitely think downsizing would be a good idea based on the OP’s other thread. In fact it could be a practical solution to both her main problems.

But oddly enough, she doesn’t even mention it’s a possibility on that thread. Yet on this one she’s not only actively looking at properties, but also talking about how “we” will have a dream house - even though she’s single and hoping her adult child will be in a position to move out on the other one.

Curious and curiouser, said Alice…

is this you downsizing so your daughter no longer has to pay half the bills?

Given the sacrifices your daughter has made to keep the family home is she aware of this plan?

assume it will just be you and your youngest son living here?

What’s your budget for doing up and changing layout?