What would you do with this floorplan

[TeaChocKitKat]

I've seen a house which is something of a doer upper. There's a lot of wasted space but I think it has potential to be a nice house. How would you reconfigure it? I'd like a much bigger kitchen than it has but I wouldn't want too much open plan living.

What about adding a wall (and or a door) between the front and back rooms, to then make the entire back of the house a kitchen diner?

Then make a corridor through the cloakroom, so you have access to the kitchen diner from the front.

Oh and remove the wall in-between the kitchen and back room.

Move the WC off the kitchen to half of the cloakroom. That why people don't need to get to the toilet via the kitchen.

What's in the cloakroom? I'd be inclined to make kitchen/diner as previous poster suggested and split cloakroom into 'corridor' plus utility cupboard to free up washing machine/drier

At the moment the cloakroom is empty and is basically used as a porch/ place to put shoes and coats.

What’s in front of the kitchen? If garden I’d extend out in that direction for the bigger kitchen, or add an orangery there.

If can’t extend then you could make the cloakroom part of kitchen. But personally I’d keep it and put washer and dryer in there and make it a proper laundry room - less washer machine in house 👌

It's interesting that everyone thinks we should have a kitchen/ diner across the back. I was thinking that knocking the cloak room into the kitchen made sense. I dunno. It just feels that there's a lot of wasted space.

Its a huge garden. The garden is massive. I do think the house has huge potential. Although I dont think i could stretch to extending. Realistically, I dont think we need to go any bigger as its just the 2 of us but I do want to make better use of the space it dows have.

Could you switch the living room and kitchen round? Have a large kitchen/diner family room and then a snug living room?
You may want to make them completely separate with own hallway access so the walls become more useable.

Agree more needs to be made of the cloakroom. Could you partition it to make a study space? Perhaps with access from the (new) living room so it could benefit from the light. Or depending on drainage the downstairs toilet would make more sense here and accessed from hallway.

Really the front door seems like it's in the wrong place so a big chunk of the left hand side of the house is a bit wasted.

Although that room would be an ideal study/ office size, the house has 4 bedrooms which is more than we need so we will use the smallest bedroom as an office.
Oh I dunno, its a very good price for its size but maybe there's too much work to do🤔

I was thinking the same.

Probably totally unrealistic, but could you move the front door?
So shift the door to align with the bottom of the stairs, and convert the lobby and cloakroom into a room?

How would you feel about losing hallway access to the left side?
Knocking the kitchen into the cloakroom only really makes sense if you do this as otherwise it's really just a walkway that would make the layout awkward.
You could put double or pocket doors into the living room to access it instead so could be opened up or closed off

if it is possible to put the plumbing into the cloakroom, i'd make that space into loo + utility.

are there really no windows in the front of the house? Or is the plan wrong?

then I'd extend the kitchen to the length of the existing loo but the full width of the kitchen to get a big eat-in kitchen, and make sure it has good doors to the garden.