Kitchen/living room/dining room help!

[puzzledbubbles]

So, we moved here in December 2019 and have been working our way around the house to make it more our own.

Now we are talking big ideas, we have a weird living room/kitchen/dining room set up.

The living room area is a flat roof extension with windows and door all along the long outside wall.

Where the kitchen and living room meet the original window has been removed but the opening remains.

If you were going to rip out everything and start again how would you lay this out and would you incorporate the side extension where washing machine etc is, or leave it as it is?

We need a kitchen and living room in this space, could do without a dining room but only if we had an Island to sit at for meals watching

I'm not quite sure from the floorplan: is that the entire ground floor of the house or is there more off to the top of the picture? It's just I don't quite see how the stairs could have been there originally if the living room part is an extension, and the house would be unusually wide-but-shallow if the kitchen and dining room were the whole of the original building....

I’d maybe extend the current kitchen to incorporate the dining area and make that the living room at the front and then have the long thin room as a kitchen diner at the back of the house. And move the door from the utility so it goes into the kitchen at back of house.

Does the lounge open onto the garden at the back? With the front door cut off the top of the picture? Or is there some other arrangement?

I would put a wall where dining meets living room, knock kitchen and dining room into one and make an open plan kitchen dinner.
Put double glass doors into the living from the middle of kitchen/diner

Why is the current set up not working? What about it is wrong or irritating you?

@CasperGutman

I'm not quite sure from the floorplan: is that the entire ground floor of the house or is there more off to the top of the picture? It's just I don't quite see how the stairs could have been there originally if the living room part is an extension, and the house would be unusually wide-but-shallow if the kitchen and dining room were the whole of the original building....

Sorry ;) full ground floor here - I thought chopping it down might help 😂

@parietal

Does the lounge open onto the garden at the back? With the front door cut off the top of the picture? Or is there some other arrangement?

Yes, the lounge opens to the garden with double doors and two large windows all on that wall

@Cyberworrier

I’d maybe extend the current kitchen to incorporate the dining area and make that the living room at the front and then have the long thin room as a kitchen diner at the back of the house. And move the door from the utility so it goes into the kitchen at back of house.

Would you do this by adding more work surface/an island that goes across to act as a divide or would you say keep open plan?

@BaronessBomburst

Why is the current set up not working? What about it is wrong or irritating you?

We have a lot of dead space behind the living room set up - so we are not utilising all of the space effectively.

We have added a WFH space under the stairs for DH to work at occasionally and with the dining table in that space as well it makes it cramped - but we do not use the dining table every day as we eat at the kitchen peninsular a lot.

The kitchen being in the middle makes it very dark and it's super noisy when the kettle is being boiled or tap being ran - but advantages are you can watch tv while washing up 😂

Thanks for all the replies everyone :) sorry for the delay, I'm a once a day mumsnetter 😂