What would you do with this house layout if money was unlimited?

[Ronaflynn]

Love to hear your thoughts.
Me and 2 kids, 8 and 5 would be living here.
Downstairs I am thinking to square off the dining room extension to the whole width of the house, creating a bigger L shape kitchen/family room. Creating a utility room either into some of the garage space or the kitchen side of the WC. Ideally a bigger hall as there's no real place for hanging coats or storing shoes/hats/wellies/other paraphernalia that loiters by the door. But not sure how.
Upstairs I can't think how to make the layout work better for us (ideal world kids would be next to each other, I need a small work from home space and ideally would like an ensuite so I don't have to vomit at the toothpaste spit explosions left round the sink every day. Not sure if this is possible without rear extension.
Would love to see what you've done. Or get new ideas 💡 🤔

Upstairs, cut off the back half of Bed3 and put in a shower room for you. Then the space in between that and your bedroom (bed2) could be a wfh space.

Put dc in bed 1 and 4.

Ooh yes or sod the desk, I could have a dressing room in the gap.
Can see arguments coming about who's getting the 'big' bedroom and who's getting the 'small' bedroom though

What garden space do you have front and back?

With money no object I would extend to the front level with the garage putting in a study and a loo off the hall
Then square off the back adding sliding doors and putting utility where the current loo is

Upstairs the front extension could include en suite to bed 3 and move bed 1 forward and add dressing room and en suite at the back of current room

You can move the wall of bedroom 4 further into bedroom 1. It won’t completely even the rooms out but would be much better.

Downstairs, maybe cut into the garage so you have no diagonal wall. The hallway will be a proper L shape. Then you have more space to put built ins etc next to the stairs (across from loo).
Then make half the garage into the utility room coming off the hallway?

Excuse the wobbly lines. Hopefully the picture attaches

There is a fair amount of front and back garden but not much room to the sides of the house.
You're all so much more creative than me, this is so helpful x

Agree with Greencircle

except I’d make the garage into a study and utility/boot room

and bedroom 3 into an en suite and dressing area. You don’t want a wfh area in your bedroom

or if you want to keep the garage, then square off the back as you suggest, move the kitchen into the extension and carve up the existing kitchen into utility and study with a corridor between them leading to the back room

Absolutely move the wall between the two DC rooms as suggested, if the windows allow.

Do you have to get planning to cut into garage room? I seem to remember reading something about restrictions that you have to be able to get a car in or something.. !!

Take the back off the garage (in line with the front of the house) to make a utility / clockroom off the hall. Keep the living room as it is for an adult lounge and then bring the dining / family room out to the left in line with the current end of the building to make a massive kitchen / diner / family room. I'd probably merge those 2 bedrooms that are off each other into one master suite with ensuite and dressing room but then the 3rd bedroom would be very small.
You definitely don't have to still be able to get a car into a garage, my brother chopped the back off his to make a utility from the kitchen but the garage door still looks the same from the front of the house, it's now just less deep inside.

@Ronaflynn

Do you have to get planning to cut into garage room? I seem to remember reading something about restrictions that you have to be able to get a car in or something.. !!

Not usually

You’d have to think about where you will park of course if the garage is gone. Sometimes with newish housing developments they build in garages but people who buy the houses aren’t entitled to residents permits to park on street.