Best layout for small terraced victorian house?

[MinimalistMommi]

Currently, the front door goes right into small living room, which then has door which leads into small square hall area at bottom of staircase which splits the front and back rooms up. The back room is the dining room with lovely fireplace and leading off this is a small galley kitchen.

We are looking at moving staircase to improve layout upstairs (simply turning it so it starts and finishes the opposite way it does now) but I've been wondering if we should move staircase completely and reposition it, knocking living room and dining room into one big space?

What do mumsnetters think? I can't decide!

Either against wall or move back so forms part of wall to kitchen,giving you nice big living room

allotment I'm very lucky with our terrace, yes the stairs are steep but they won't be once we move them 180 degrees as they will have slight turn on bottom two or three steps so the main flight of stairs aren't so steep. Neither our front room or our back room are dark in the slightest, they both have there huge, original, sash windows in place so flooding each room with light. Our galley kitchen also had an oversized window overlooking our courtyard garden, again flooding the kitchen with light. The terrace you went to view before you bought your house does sound horrible and dark ~

Hi Minimalistmomni, I know it's been a while since this post, but I'm just wondering what you decided to do? I'm thinking of doing the same in my house so would love to hear how you got on if you did move your stairs?

Have a look at council planning website. If your neighbour has done their staircase work it might have plans on their. It might not have needed planning permission but it would still have to pass building control

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