Is this houses’ floorplan too cursed to buy?

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We have a found a house we like in an amazing location. It definitely needs modernisation but it’s not too bad that we couldn’t do it over the course of a year or so. We really would be left with a dream house. The interiors are ugly and outdated but not minging.

It’s a period home with nice bright rooms, high ceilings. But the layout is just insane to me. I am normally good with being able to figure out a design but I’m stumped on this one.

Do you think the floorplan is too far gone?

I was thinking of converting the garage into an amazing kitchen?

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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! :-)

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!!

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?

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?

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.