Odd layout...

[pepino]

What would you do with this? The front door opens directly into the kitchen. I'm not bothered about the upstairs layout, its downstairs that bothers me.

It's not my house by the way, but one that I otherwise like the look of.

It doesn’t though, there’s a porch & an entrance hall?

Isn't that the back door? The front door leads into the hall

Oh my that's a dogs dinner isn't it? Is the proper front of the house the top then, with the door into the kitchen?

If so you'd effectively have to completely rejig, move stairs etc. or move the kitchen to the dining room and make kitchen into a large hall/study. But you're losing a room that way. It's having the stairs so far from the front door that's buggering it up.

Otherwise can you have the main entrance round the back?

With an unlimited budget I'd get rid of the stairs, put a spiral staircase in the middle of the kitchen, which becomes the hall, then have all-through kitchen-diner on one side and massive reception room on the other, or large reception room and a study.

Upstairs, with the stairs taken out of the corner, I'd create an extra room.

I rather like that layout. For me having a gap between reception rooms would be good as we use one as an office and one as a family room so if someone is trying to work after kids are home from school they aren't disturbed but appreciate not the same for everyone.

Coming directly into the kitchen wouldn't bother me particularly but you could put a partition/doorway a few feet inside to create a vestibule for coats etc.

Wouldn't be a problem for me.

That's at the back of the house. The entrance is through the kitchen.

Unlimited budget would be grand, but no stairs and loo would have to stay where they are.

So the garden is outside the stairs porch? How odd!

I would put a corridor by front door deep enough to have a door to lounge and a coat cupboard opposite that door. Then double glass doors opposite that go into kitchen

i would open kitchen and dining room and get rid of dog leg to utility (and keep that as utility and loo). Makenextended room into kitchen diner family room. Keep lounge as is

consider french door to garden where kitchen sink currently is

Have you got a rightmove link? I can't picture it

Found another house that I think was the original layout...

And there's a yard at the back, but a grassy garden at the side where the french doors are.

It's hard to imagine without seeing the pics, but on paper I'd knock the kitchen and dining room through (keeping utility) so they're one large, open plan room. I'd then add a hallway from the entrance porch and rework the fitted kitchen to accommodate.

If structurally possible I would do this

This is what I would do

And here is what I'd actually do!

I agree with Solla's diagram. Although in my head I kept the kitchen in its current location, just smaller, but think moving the kitchen makes a better floorplan.

Yes Solla that looks more feasible!