1930s extended floor plan advise, weird middle rooms

[Mouse72]

Hello 👋
We are in the process of purchasing a gorgeous home, 1930s semi in a semi rural area. Pretty standard layout apart from the full width extension on the back. (Single story so has a couple of velux room windows) Looking for any ideas on how to reconfigure the floor plan to get:

• open plan kitchen diner
• utility room that we can shut the door to to hide any mess/noise of washing machine.
• pantry space

We have a little downstairs loo under the stairs which we are happy with, and well as not wanting to touch the front lounge. Any thoughts much appreciated

The easiest thing to do would be to just take out the wall between the kitchen and family room. Make the family room the dining area and the dining room into a lounge space. Then you’ll have a large open plan kitchen diner, with a lounge area at the back where the current dining room is. Plus a separate living room at the front.
The writing isn’t very clear but it looks like you go through the utility room to get to the bedroom? So could you just block off the door from utility to bedroom and put a door from the current dining room into that bedroom instead?

What budget do you have?

Do you need the downstairs bedroom? Because I think you’ve got two options: one is to do as @Row23 suggests and take down the wall between the kitchen and the family room, which would be easiest in terms of not having to relocate any of the kitchen pipework. Then close up the utility room access from the bedroom (will give another usable wall).

The other option would be to take down the wall between the bedroom and the dining room and relocate the kitchen to where the current bedroom is. You could then carve out a large utility and pantry from the existing kitchen. But you would be reducing the number of bedrooms in the house, which you might not want to do.

This.

Bedroom office becomes utility pantry and smash down the kitchen to family room.

Not clear but I'd get an RSJ to fully open up between dining room and family room as it looks like an arch vs fully open

Open up current back rooms into a larger kitchen diner.

Put sliding doors between family room and kitchen diner so that you can have it open plan or separate depending on how you want to use the space at any time.

Current kitchen divided into a corridor past the utility room. Door to the kitchen at the back end of the corridor.

Door to the utility room could be in the kitchen or in the corridor.

If you don't like an internal corridor and don't mind walking through the family room to the kitchen, remove the left hand wall of the corridor. Would probably internal support.

Glass sliding doors between family room and kitchen diner, as otherwise no natural light.

This is nicer!

I'm very late to reply here but thank you for your ideas! The option with the internal corridor / opening up the back is where we got to. We don't need the downstairs bedroom. The budget we have is about 60k max but hope to spend less. It would be great to know if people think this is realistic? Xx

About 60k xx