Ideas for rejigging this floor plan please

[Gingenius]

Hi mumsnetters,
we’re buying a house that needs work. One of the main things is the back layout doesn’t work: there is an extension plonked on and has turned the kitchen into a corridor. One option is to open it all up (have budgeted for this) but I’d like to some how get a utility room in preferably near the back door. Red x is where the boiler and washing machine are plumbed in. Any ideas much appreciated. I’ll probably get an architect in to help me plan once we’ve moved in but figured I’d open it up to the collective wisdom of mumsnet whilst we’re waiting to complete to see if people come up with options we’d not thought of.....

I think it would be good to make the utility room the existing kitchen (without the bit in the extension), block off the opening to the extension from the new utility room, then have an L shaped kitchen diner family room, probably with the kitchen in the existing dining room if the plumbing is possible, and have the living area in the extension the full width of the house.

The funny shape of the under stairs loo feels like it's blocking the flow. Is there any reason why the toilet and basin can't face each other in order to widen the hallway/kitchen entrance.

Make utility room where boiler is. Wall and door off hallway. New door into dining room. Extend kitchen further into extension?

Hi,
Thanks for your reply, yes this is one layout I was considering, worried it may make the kitchen a bit dark moving it to the dining room (very dark at the mo) but maybe some
Velux windows in the extension would help with that...

@floofycroissant yes I totally agree! I wonder if there is something clever that can be done about downstairs loo to improve flow. Basically not enough space for loo without that chunk taken out of the hall...

Utility would need some thought for it to not be a cave.

We have a similar set up but we did the extension. We took down the wall between the dining room and the kitchen, and have a utility where your kitchen is now, but not the full size of the kitchen, probably about 2/3. We access the open plan diner by the door into what is your dining room (as drawn by @Crapbuttrue).

We also have a loo under the stairs - there is definitely enough room for a loon and sink without the extra bit you have - you just have to get compact sanitary ware. Its tight, but doable.

The bottom left corner of your now dining room is always notoriously dark in these sort of extensions. We have glazing across the whole of the back wall, and our kitchen window (where your sink is) is about 2m. We also have velux windows in the left hand side of the extension.