Critique this layout please - 1920s house

[DiggerDiggerDigger]

I’d love all the opinions, please.

I’m looking to buy a 1920s house, currently set up as two flats and very run down. There aren’t many around (or around here anyway), so I’m battling to imagine how to make it fit our family life with young kids. It’s east/west facing so should be bright but is currently dingy, dark and unloved.

I’ve attached the current layout along with my “knock allll the walls down, privacy is overrated” approach - what do you reckon?

Leaving aside the basement, we need some living space, a kitchen and dining area, a bathroom w/utility space and ideally would like a large-ish hallway. What might work?

www.rightmove.co.uk/sold-prices/floorplans/property-73758026.html

This sort of thing (although in this case they have extended the kitchen sideways which looks nice but is not necessary and can be very expensive).

Didn't spot the basement earlier. If you have basement access to the under side of the floorboards then you could fit wet underfloor heating with heat spreading plates to the whole of the ground floor. We have it is ours and it is brilliant. Very cosy and warm.

@Heronwatcher that’s brilliant, thank you so much.

@Geneticsbunny I’d not heard of that before, thank you