Is this houses’ floorplan too cursed to buy?

Do you need 5 bedrooms? I would turn the existing kitchen into a snug/bedroom 5, and the existing bedroom 5 I would knock through into the storage room to make a big kitchen diner. The existing dining room I would keep as a dining hall for anything more formal/ Christmas etc.

Downsizing maybe @HellDorado Affordability is relative.

Hang on - why do you want to buy a house needing a lot of work when you can’t afford the one you’ve got without your daughter’s contribution?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5294361-daughter-wont-let-her-bil-come-to-the-family-home?

Oh, this is tough. There’s no hallway, all rooms lead into each other, is that right?

we had a house like this., in fact, some rooms had three doorways in them! Never could get it to flow correctly.

Rather than rearranging everything, which sounds tedious and expensive, could you build a new entrance running along the front creating a passageway from which the kitchen, dining room and living room would be accessible?

You need to move the kitchen either to the dining room or the sitting room

Agree with pp get a structural engineer to look at which walls would have to stay and work from there.
The layout is indeed cursed but no reason it has to stay that way.

I think it's difficult to think about how you would change the layout without the input from an expert who knows what's structurally possible. You can knock walls down wherever you like on paper but it will probably be trickier in reality.

The wall thickness suggests this might have been a two up, two down cottage which has been extended twice on the right hand side and had a garage added on the left. They built a conservatory at the back so why not extend the house in that direction? With the location of the stairs it would have made a more coherent layout possible.

I'd try and look how similar houses are laid out nearby. My first thoughts are build a new kitchen over on the right where the sitting room is now, downstairs bathroom can become a utility and put in a loo that side as well. I'm assuming it's an original staircase so ideally keep it? You could do away with the pantry but then again if you keep it you could have a fabulous uncluttered kitchen?

Is there an upstairs floor plan? The stairs seem to be in an odd place but you could work round that. Depends what leads to what before you start knocking through though, and how the upstairs is laid out. Would you want a massive kitchen diner where everyone was in and out of if your bedroom was up there and there was no other access to it? Or would you want the stairs to be straight into your room?

Need the big picture.

That is a very strange layout. There are so many odd spaces eg the corridor like conservatory, the extra bit in the sitting room, the rooms leading into each other. It feels like there should be another staircase, as if the current staircase was the servant’s staircase maybe? Or have 2 properties been joined? Or a tiny cottage extended multiple times? What is the storage area? Is it habitable? It would probably make more sense with photos of the rooms but, understandably, you might not want to post them.

I suspect it will require an architect and a lot of money to reorganise the space. You might be destroying the character if you do. It depends whether it is a beautiful historic house where the fact that it is a bit of a rabbit warren is part of its character or it is just a badly converted old house.

Knock down conservatory and extend across back of kitchen and diner,.to make a kitchen-diner-family room?

Section off hallway and entrance.

I would start with this.

Which way does the garden face? That would help me decide on what should go where, I’d want kitchen and living rooms where they’d get maximum light, pantry and bedroom and bathroom could happily go to the north.

You are looking at the layout with a modern eye
If you remember it's a period house, what doesn't make sense is the bedroom/family room with added bathroom
As pp said the pantry would be a butlers pantry for storage of china, linens etc. Then the other two rooms would have been sitting/drawing rooms.
The layout then makes more sense.
Whether that's what you want is a different issue

It depends on your budget. The conservatory looks somewhat pointless. The dining room needs to become a magnificent hall. The kitchen needs to be extended to a large kitchen come dining area. The infill, where the remaining conservatory would be, needs to become an extended garden room. Part of the garage needs to be made into a utility room.

If the price is right, you have the budget, and there isn't a value ceiling for the road, it has bags of potential. Otherwise, I doubts it will work well.

You say it's an older house, then the chances are that some of those walls are load bearing. The dining room looks like it has a big fireplace which will involve a chimney going up through upstairs. Unless it's already been removed upstairs it'll actually be a big job.

I kind of like having separate rooms and don't see much wrong with the layout. It's an older house and that is what you get. Changing it won't always be that simple.

You have tons of options to move the kitchen to a new space, so that's good!

I'd start with looking at the light. Naturally bright rooms make us happier.

Personally I like my kitchen, where we spend most of our time, to have superb morning light for breakfast, (so a window to the east) and ideally evening light too (a window to the west.)

Light will massively depend on what's outside of course - neighbours, big trees, fences/walls

Honestly I'd get an architect to look at it. Ours was brilliant sorting out weird downstairs layout and suggested some brilliant things that never would have occurred to us.

Love a weird floorplan. I've seen much weirder than this though. Basically everything on the right - family room, pantry, sitting room - can be whatever you need it to be. The pantry space would work as non-kitchen storage or even a walk-in wardrobe if the family room is used as a bedroom.

The actual weirdest thing to me is the tiny hallway with no storage space for coats, shoes etc compared to how gigantic everything else is.

I would have kitchen diner sitting room one end
Then the other maybe a playroom and separate sitting room, or if you can extend to make it all in line just one big sitting room

I agree with some others saying right hand side would be better as kitchen/utility/downstairs loo etc and left hand side as a sitting room and dining room
with the sun ☀️ room staying. Don’t give the garage up for living space, you will find that people want a garage, if only to keep crap in.

The only think that would bother me would be the size of the kitchen. What sort of budget would you have to work with? As someone that has done some major remodelling, including moving a kitchen to a different room, do not underestimate how much these cost. It could easily end up more expensive than just building an extension, especially in a period house. Rather than converting the garage (which will still cost a fortune) I’d be looking at knocking down the conservatory and replacing with an extension to put the kitchen in. This would be a better location for the kitchen than the garage anyway as it’s more central. You’d have to be careful about making sure the house still had plenty of light coming in, but an architect would be able to work with that.

Id do three things
Knock into the garage for a massive kitchen diner off the front hall door.
Close the back hall kitchen door, take some of that back hall into the current diner and move the downstairs loo, knock the remaining diner/ conservatory into a large sitting/ garden room.
Knock the current sitting room and family into another massive sitting room, with the hall gone but the fireplace built up for library wall in each, potentially leave another loo on that side of the house.