How to change this layout

[WildOnce]

Looking at a house but dislike the layout. The rooms are too long and narrow and I don’t like one being a walk through. Would like a proper downstairs loo and not an outside one! How would you change it?

What kind of house is it? (ie old/new etc) You won't be able to change the layout without some significant wall knocking down/remodelling - easier on a 60s/70s box vs an ancient stone built cottage (for example).

What is it that you like about the house? It seems you'd have to go right back to basics to get the layout you're looking for - do you want to invest significantly in it?

I would knock the external kitchen and breakfast room wall down and extend into the garden if the space allows you to outside? I’d use the downstairs dining room as a study / snug and keep the lounge as it is.

It’s 70s. It gives us the square footage, rooms and location we need at the price we want which has been extremely difficult to find. The compromise is that the downstairs layout isn’t to my liking but I could live with it. We’ve had a second child and are home working and are struggling for space.

I'd have the back as kitchen/diner/sitting space. Halve the lounge and turn the new front room into a study and the dining room into a study too. Put a utility in the garage. Then you've got a couple of rooms to work in/have as adult space.

Pretty much exactly what I was going to say, remove wall between breakfast room and lounge and half the lounge to make a living/kitchen/diner. New room at the end of the hallway (front half of the old lounge) as a "grown up" living room and dining room as dining room, study or playroom.

Extend slightly so the back of the garage is flush with the house to make the toilet internal. Assuming you're putting a new kitchen in with the world above you could probably have a small utility before the WC too