Opinions on this house layout please 🙏

[upstairsdownstairscardboardbox]

I have the opportunity to build a ground floor extension and gain a bedroom.
old house (left) is 1840s. Extension will be modern as dictated by planners.
upstairs has a shower room and 2 good double bedrooms.
I see positive and negative in both.
Very grateful for opinions and thoughts from everyone. What are we not considering?

I'd prefer to see doors on the plan.

The second looks much cleaner to me but without knowing dimensions it's hard to judge, and I'm not sure what your utility plan is for the second one.

If the bedroom is only for occasional use, a "utility cupboard" (stacked washer and dryer with storage cupboard for airers etc) within in could work very well, or have a bigger en suite or downstairs loo which includes a stacked washer & dryer.

Also if you do the second one could you put a skylight in the kitchen diner? That would be lovely.

The first one flows much better, but I'd swap the kitchen and dining round. I wouldn't want guests walking through the kitchen to get to the dining table.

thank you!
the extension is required to be timber and glass so would be perfect for a lovely light kitchen diner imo but the bedroom in that location seems odd to me, somehow.

Doors in green!

So the lounge would be accessed through the utility in 1? What is the dining that is separate from kitchen/diner? It looks too narrow for a functional dining space

Yes the dining room is narrow - but a 6 seat table and chairs fit, so it could work. The utility/entrance hall needs to have space as we're a working farm (with a tiny little farm house 😂)

I have a weird feeling about the bedroom in location 1 and have no idea why. I feels 'wrong' that is in the old house and the kitchen/diner in the new.

any thoughts?

Number one, where the kitchen/diner and lounge are as you walk in. But change where the doors are.

As you walk in the hall, have double doors opening centred into the lounge, with matching double doors, directly opposite, opening into the kitchen diner.

That opens the whole space up and makes it feel larger, with better 'flow'.

Thank you!

Hope you like it! Also, that layout gives the bedroom more privacy, and means the downstairs loo is around the corner, not opening off the kitchen. Again, better for hygiene and privacy.