Floor plan help

[Nofoolfornoone]

Hey

If money was no object, what would you do to this floor plan?
I think ideally I would like a bigger more sociable kitchen. I don’t like landlocked rooms. And if possible having at least one reception which isn’t open plan is ideal.
Bathroom wise I am considering removing the cupboard, spinning bath around 90 degree and installing a free standing shower where toilet currently is.
Any other ideas?

Floor plan would help

Is the ground floor plan accurate? Looks like you walk through front door and can turn right into the living room or go straight upstairs, no access to the kitchen, but there's a door from the kitchen to the hall at the rear of the stairs?

I would: restore hallway from front door to kitchen. Brick up or put doors on archway between living room and dining room. Knock through to make kitchen and dining room a kitchen diner. Use a corner of the kitchen diner to create a utility room as I hate washing machines in kitchens and kitchen diners. Consider removing the conservatory and extending across the whole of the back of the house.

If you remove the cupboard in the bathroom is there not room for a separate shower in place of the cupboard without the aggro of moving the toilet? A glass wall between the shower and the bath would make the room lighter and is less claustrophobic than a shower between soild walls.

Open up the kitchen to stop it being a bit of a hallway. Assuming the door behind the side door is a cupboard?

Need to watch you don't lose cupboard space in doing so though. Maybe block off the side door as you have access round the back via the conservatory?

If money is no object then I'd turn the conservatory into a proper extension and make that the dining area overlooking the garden, open up the kitchen diner for a bigger family space and keep the front room as it is.

I think the kitchen is accessed from the dining room and the door under the stairs is to a cupboard.

If you put a shower where the toilet is, where would you put the toilet? You'd have to move/faff about with the soil pipe.

All you can do is swap reception room and dining room. You could then remove doorway from kitchen to new lounge.. You would could then put in a doorway to new lounge (reception room) from the kitchen if you always eat there.Lounge would be small but would open into conseratory so could be quite light.
Removing door from kitchen to dining room gives you a long wall and more space there.

I would open the kitchen up into the dining room - make it a much wider doorway so the room feels like one but with maybe short walls say just one unit wide either side of the door.

I would have wide double doors between dining room and sitting room so I could choose to open up/close off whenever I wanted and do the same between the dining room and conservatory (widen door across the internal window). It would be great to be able to open it all up for parties and in summer but close it off to be cosy in the sitting room in winter.

Moving the toilet could work out very expensive and not worth the money so I wouldn't do that. I may still flip the bath but that might cause an issue with airing cupboard/tank so again maybe too expensive.

If you can squeeze a downstairs loo under the stairs it would probably add value to your house.

Hope this helps!

You could then remove doorway from kitchen to new lounge (formerly dining room) - correcting above.

If money is no object then I'd turn the conservatory into a proper extension

I agree.

You could maybe do something like this but the red area ends up as a corridor.

Thanks all. So many great ideas and completely right about moving soil stack being a pita!

The cupboard in kitchen is a pantry.

I’m starting to think this place lends itself more to an open plan kind of space. But maybe with bifold doors so I can shut off the living room when I want to. And I did one day do a full width extension I could trueness current kitchen into a utility area potentially with downstairs toilet as that’s where the soil stack for upstairs goes.
The reason I said if money is no object is I don’t want to move In and make changes which will impact on any future work I might save up /extend mortgage to do.

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There's actually nothing disastrously wrong with this house, I'v seen newbuilds of the same layout. First job for me would be knocking down the wall between the kitchen and dining room. New kitchen with island. I think conservatory's are a bit naff these days so I'd look to brick it up and put a roof on, you could even extend to the side then and open that whole space out for a bigger kitchen, dining and living space.