What changes would you make to this property? (Floorplan inc)

[Galaxygirl93]

I am viewing a property this weekend with the attached layout floor plan. My current property is quite similar, the differences being that the living room and dining room are the other way round, and there is a utility room on the side of the house next to the kitchen.

Viewing the new house most importantly for the garden, and understand changes can be made to the house.

What would you do? The side is not suitable for a utility room so extension would have to be along the rear of the property.

I am very interested in differing options on what we could do. Perhaps an idea would be to change the existing kitchen into utility, and then add a kitchen/dining room to the back of the property? Any more exciting/interesting ideas.

This is more of a mirror image, but that’s the layout I’d like for a family house:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/fullscreen/view-floorplan.html?propertyId=72583482

Wow that's not something I'd considered JoJoSM2 an extension and opening up the back of the house. Would be a lovely view of the garden too.

Is floorplan to scale? Having trouble believing the entry hall is larger than the kitchen and same size as entire dining room.

I’d knock through kitchen and lounge to create kitchen diner, and turn dining room into a lounge.

No expert in these things FYI. But if it were me, I'd extend out the back and have a kitchen/diner across the back of the house, and move the living room to where the current dining room is.
Your hallway also looks quite large, I don't know if there's space to put a downstairs cloak room/utility in part of that and add it on to the kitchen so to speak? I do think the kitchen would benefit from being opened up and made bigger.

an extension and opening up the back of the house.

I think it’s lovely to get a view of the garden + more tempting for children to go out there. I like that they managed to squeeze a loo and a small utility in the middle too. Personally, a small laundry space would be enough for me but maybe not great if someone needs somewhere to wash their dog etc.

I'm confused by the proportions too.

Where does the door in right wall of hallway lead? It appears to be into an odd external alcove?

And the zigzag wall towards the kitchen is odd.

It may make sense in reality.

I would knock through between kitchen and current lounge.
I'd find a way to get a downstairs cloakroom out of the enormous hall.

Wrong way up however I’d have small cupboard type utility room in hallway. Kitchen diner on to rear garden. Large glass doors onto garden. Patio directly outside

Kitchen looks very small. Could you use the lounge as the dining room and vice versa? Maybe even make the kitchen/dining room into one room

Yes, the proportions are odd which I think is why I am struggling with thinking forward! The hallway is very large, and the kitchen is quite small hence they are almost the same size.

Could you knock out the wall between kitchen and living room to make one big space, make the dining room into a living room. Then hive off part of the hallway with full-height cupboards housing washing machine, cleaning stuff, pantry stuff, all all your shoes/boots/coats/bags?

I'd probably do something like this. Separate living room to kitchen / diner with large doors that open out to the garden.

Something like this? Essentially I'd think about having one big kitchen/diner/family space across the back, a living room at the front, and I'd try to rejig the unnecessarily large hallway to create a little study/WFH space of some description (not sure which door you'd consider the 'main' one so not necessarily this way round, but you get the general idea.

Alternatively, if you don't want a study, then a downstairs loo and shower room would be a good use of some of that space, too.

I would swap the living room with the dining room and knock through to create kitchen/diner.
I would possibly move the back door and get a WC/boot room in the entrance hall somehow.

We’ve got a grand entrance hall and I love it! If you can afford to extend for more space, I’d keep the entrance hall as it is. Ours has a sofa and artwork on walls etc It feels very fancy coming into the house.