New build floor plan - any thoughts? (title edited by MNHQ at request of OP)

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DH and have bought a piece of development land to build our dream house.

The land currently has planning permission granted but we hate the designs. Far too open plan for my liking. When the oldest is cooking and blaring music I don’t want to hear it.

Here is the downstairs of a house DH and I saw a few years ago. We loved the proportions and layout.

I find a lot of Mumsnetters are practical and sensible.

Please can you share your thoughts on the floorplan? Do you see any issues we may run into?

The house will be occupied by Dh, myself and 3 children (aged 9-13yo). 3 big dogs.

We see the architect next week and want to be able to jump straight in.

We’d probably turn ‘dining room’ into an office as I wfh.

Dining room is too far from kitchen. I would have larger utility room than boot room…..

what is a plant room?

drawing and dining room will be pretty much never used given where it’s placed

i’d want a lovely big dining / family area off the kitchen

I agree dining room a bit redundant; study might be better

It looks amazing

Cinema room? Entertainment room? Somewhere for the kids to hang out with their friends?

I would swap the dining room and drawing room and move the inside wall so that the drawing room at the front is bigger.

Also french doors to the garden in kitchen & dining room!
Also, do you need the boot room. It might be better to have the whole lot as Utility room...

I would definitely consider bi-fold doors in the kitchen and living room so that you can really appreciate the garden on sunny, summer days.

Also, you need more storage. A few built in storage spaces. Maybe one under the stairs.

Basically a boiler room

Interesting. Why do you think that would be?

I'd treat the drawing room as kids lounge so tv console etc, dining room is office and snug is adult lounge - reading and quiet pursuits only.

Looks a good layout.

You'd only need a formal dinjng room if you give a lot of dinner parties.

so you come in via the boot room, take off your boots, then walk through the plant room and… oh someone is in the WC so i’ll wait whilst they finish up, when they’re off the toilet, you walk through the toilet and only then do you reach where you hang up your coat??!

So the bays face the back of the house? Overlooking the garden?
I think the layout is fine. Dining room will never get used though - or maybe just at Christmas! So depending on your needs I'd turn it into a office or guestroom with en suite shower room (get rid of what I assume is a fireplace, repositioning the windows and have a metre wide shower at one end toilet at the other sink in the middle on the outside wall). That still leaves a decent sized bedroom.
Depending on what is outside, those double doors in the living room (I guess you aren't putting a study there) might need to move - pain in the ass access to garden if that leads to a thin side area.

We are hoping the snug will fulfil that function.

i am surprised you loved the layout tbh

and not to have a nice big walk in place to hang up coats but the front door?!

what is total sq footage of downstairs?

ps these aren’t your dimensions are they?

Think you’ve misread the floor plan.

given we don’t know the dimensions of your home…. it’s difficult to say whether layout good

We have 3 large dogs (35kg+). 2 have long fur. I currently have to wipe them in the side alley and then in through the kitchen. The mud that I have to clean up daily is unbelievable. A dedicated area for wellies and muddy dogs (whilst they dry) is the dream. Maybe then the steam mop won’t have to be permanently out.

the alternative to that route is that you walk through the boot room, then through kitchen / diner, and then go to cloak (presuming where coats kept or did you mean cloakroom?)

definitely keep the boot room!

but…. what happens after boots are off? where are coats stored?

I like a house that you can walk round in a circle . We are just about complete on a house which is similar to your plan but you can get from one room to the next without going back on yourself . Just a thought if you hadn't considered

Bout rooms usually have coat hooks

I was thinking of doing something like this in the boot room.

See here . It's old though not a new build