Floorpan help

[Karcheer]

Hello,

What would you do with this floorplan?

It's mainly the family room that doesn't work for me. Id also like to have a sofa (family room area) and a kitchen table in the kitchen but i think it'll be a squeeze. My husband would like a dining room (but the family room is a bit to big), id also like a boot room or larger utility...

Theres loads of space but all in the wrong places :/

It’s a simple layout with an easy fix, knock through kitchen and family room to create one big room so you can fit in island/table/sofa. Utility becomes your boot room, the room off the family room becomes your large utility and put a table in the current study so it becomes a dining room (that you will probably never use) and make that a formal dining room.

Bettyboo just nailed it

Move the kitchen wall down to online with the front of the house where the front door is that would make your kitchen bigger to have a sofa etc and you could make that unmarked room a boot room. The family room would then be smaller and could be formal dining or snug.

The kitchen and family room would be huge though so you would have to zone it carefully to make it work.

Expand the kitchen down and incorporate the room off the family room. Make it a large dining kitchen with sofa.

The new shrunken room down the bottom can become either a snug or formal dining room.

What's this room?

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

What's this room?

Boiler room you can't really use that space for anything apart from services.

@BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo i have thought about knocking down that wall but the room would be huge and my DH doesn't want to rip the kitchen out as it's a fairly new Neptune kitchen.
I had thought of making the room off the family room a boot room with access from the hallway.

I would probably go for just a kitchen diner and not bother with a sofa in the kitchen - given that you have two other large reception rooms, I don't really get why you would need one

Yes it would be very large but if done properly could look stunning, your kitchen could be re jigged rather than ripped out and discarded. I don’t like boot rooms at the front of the house, they should always be at the back and not come off the formal front hallway in my opinion.

@Settlersofcatan

I would probably go for just a kitchen diner and not bother with a sofa in the kitchen - given that you have two other large reception rooms, I don't really get why you would need one

how would you use the family room and room off of that?

I've been watching too much Your Home Made Perfect but you need a chalk board wall, a large wall of concrete bench seating, a few skylights and to move the stairs.

@BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo

Yes it would be very large but if done properly could look stunning, your kitchen could be re jigged rather than ripped out and discarded. I don’t like boot rooms at the front of the house, they should always be at the back and not come off the formal front hallway in my opinion.

can i ask why? I've never had one, but think id find it useful for the dogs, boots, coats etc. i was thinking that would be better rather than having a utility with no door to the outside...

@UncleShady

I've been watching too much Your Home Made Perfect but you need a chalk board wall, a large wall of concrete bench seating, a few skylights and to move the stairs.

haha i could do with the AI googles.

I see what you are saying about not having a door to the outside in the proposed new utility, and if you constantly use your washing line every day it could be a long way to carry washing, however that would personally not bother me, I actually think utility rooms should be upstairs anyway, all that traipsing up and down stairs seems ludicrous to me and if I was building my own house I would definitely have a Laundry room upstairs. As for the boot room, it’s a casual part of the house, where you kick your wellies off and bring the dog in after a walk, and even better if it leads straight into the kitchen. It keeps your large hallway a more formal area for where you greet guests coming to your home, if you watch property programmes such as Escape to the Country, they always enter the house at the back, it just works better I think.

Your Home Made Perfect but you need.....a large wall of concrete bench seating

Definitely too much YHMP! That Irish fella puts built-in bench seating in every.bloody.design.he.ever.does

And baths in the kitchen.......yes they actually went with that design!

@karcheer - I would have the family room set up with comfy sofas and a TV, the little room off it as a playroom (but I have little kids so may not be relevant to you!). Sitting room as a TV free more grown up sitting room for chatting or reading

If it was my house I wouldn’t change anything! But I have 3 kids so would have lounge as grown up lounge, study as study, family room as kids lounge with all the gaming consoles etc and the little room as a kids study with craft stuff and thier laptops etc. I wouldn’t want to incorporate the family room into the kitchen as I like to spend hours cooking/baking while watching my own thing on my tablet and wouldn’t want the noise of others intruding on that!!
But we all have different needs/wants based on our family. You haven’t mentioned any kids? So you might have different needs

Can I ask, are you living there at the moment? If not I would live there for a bit before you do anything at all. On first sight my thought was to knock the kitchen and family room together and have some double doors (or pocket doors) in the middle. Even if the kitchen is expensive you could get a good kitchen fitter to move it and rearrange it (you may need to buy a new worktop) and it’s still likely to be less expensive than moving walls around all over the place. Other than that I think the plan looks pretty good, but it depends what you do and how you live.