Floor plan attached… would this work?

[Amch]

Help! We have bought a converted bungalow so will use the rooms upstairs as our bedrooms. We will only be keeping bedroom 3 downstairs as a bedroom (spare room).

Bedroom 2 (first on the left as you walk in) will be a playroom.

Bedroom 1 (biggest bedroom behind bedroom 2) we were thinking of using as a living room…. However there is already living space where it says ‘dining room’. The dining area is actually facing the kitchen as part of the extension and where you see the words ‘living room’ is where old owners sofas and tv were.

Therefore we’d have 2 living areas right next to each other and I don’t know if that is necessary.

Perhaps I’m massively overthinking this, not sure if I’m even making sense!

Essentially we do not know what to do with bedroom 1…

If bedroom is a spare room, decide which area you'd like most in terms of space and outlook for your living room. If that happens to be bedroom 1, you can have a dining room space in the dining room area and the bit on the end a couple of conservatory chairs. I appreciate it's a bit of distance from the kitchen, but if you're not likely to use a dining room table that much, that could be in bedroom 1 and your lounge in the back where it's quite and you have views of your garden. Our house is similar downstairs except we haven't got anything in the kitchen area and kitchen is in your bedroom 3. The latter actually works for us - sometimes we ponder about putting the living room in the front, but it's really nice to be tucked away at the back during the winter.

Depends of the age of the children and how many but it’s nice to have separate spaces when they are teens.. if they are little I’d have it as a laundry room and a treadmill

I'd make bedroom 1 into a second more formal living space/library (no toys or TV) and keep the existing living area where it is. I've always lived in tiny flats and having an extra living room is my dream.

@Toomuch44 ah this is definitely an option worth considering. Might have a drive over there this evening and try to visualise that! Thanks x

@Unmute I was thinking this… we are currently in a flat and the TOYS. They are all over our small living space and I spend every evening when they go to bed putting all of them away in a corner just so that I can relax without toys… until the next morning when they are all out again!!

Doesn't say living room anywhere, would that be above the kitchen next to the dining room ?

I would do exactly as you plan. Have the dining area that's attached to the kitchen as a dining/living space for during the day. Storage for kids toys. Any games console etc on a TV there.

Bedroom 1 I would have as a calm living room for relaxing in the evening. No toys, no games console! No kids eating in there so there's no sticky!

Essentially a kid-friendly daytime living space and a separate calmer living space for relaxing.

Do you have an upstairs bathroom? Do you have any £ for some wall removals etc?

I agree with pp. I'd have a grown up sitting room or library. The lounging area in the big family room will inevitably end up with toys in it, even if you have a playroom.

Why would you have a bedroom next to the kitchen…