What would you do with this floorplan...

[TeaChocKitKat]

Ive been looking at some doer upper houses with odd downstairs layouts. What on earth would you do with this one?

Is that side front to back corridor part of the original house? Looks like it might be a lean-to or similar to incorporate an formally outside toilet. If so knocking through formerly external walls is likely to be expensive for little gain.

Does the corridor along the right serve a purpose? And is the mess in the front right structural? If not I would open up the kitchen to the dining room along the back, with a door bottom right into the hall. Then I’d take out the walls and cupboard to make a nice square hall in the front right with beach seating/ storage etc, and maybe space for a home office along one wall. The downstairs loo would open off the hallway. You could also extend the loo to the left a bit and take the corner off the kitchen/ diner to make a lootility.

Move the stairs probably to the far left.

You could do anything you like with it but the key questions are what’s not working and what do you need from the space?

Are you looking to target a particular buying audience and what are the major needs of that audience? How many bedrooms does it have so how many people might be living there and how will that dictate use of the downstairs living space?

Also what’s your budget and where are the supporting walls?

Based on guesses of the overall structure.

I'd open up kitchen and dining room and swap the use round, so you walk through the living space to the kitchen.

I'd move the front door to nearer the stairs. And make a small office from the cupboard/hallway. If the walls aren't structural maybe take the awkward chunk off the kitchen. If the walls aren't structural maybe try and make a utility at the back right handside.

Im not sure if the walls forming the corridoor on the right are structural or not but the random internal walls definately aren't. It's already a 4 bed house so we will use the box room as a home office - the upstairs layout is fine its just the downstairs thats a mess! I def want to have a big kitchen diner as we tend to live in the kitchen in our current house. A utility room would be nice but not essential. If we have a big kitchen diner i wouldnt mind just having one reception room rather than two.

I would have a sliding pocket door into a utility from kitchen. We have a JeldWen Cristal effect one for ours and it looks great. The glass gives it a more open effect so it doesn’t look like less space in the kitchen. Open plan kitchen/diner with large island, dining table and seating area. Downstairs toilet essential in 4 bed house. I would try and make the hallway slightly bigger (if internal wall not structural - if it is, I wouldn’t bother) as I don’t like the idea of opening front door essentially into a door. Add a big mirror/console table/plant. Bigger hallways appeal to me for prams/coat storage trunk etc and I would add a ‘boot room’ style built-in. X

*Crittal not Cristal

well with any amount of money, something like this

(but a house that size implies that the budget is small)