Reconfiguration of this floor plan

[UnendingGrace]

Hi All,
I’m new here and would really appreciate the expertise of everyone. We are first-time buyers and are in the process of purchasing the property below. It's in a great location, and we absolutely love it. The property needs some work, which we're happy to take on. We're currently trying to figure out the best layout configuration and thought it would be helpful to gather advice from all of you.
Please find the layout below. Our requirements are as follows:

• A utility room
• A larger, open kitchen and dining area (although we’re not big fans of fully open-plan living for the kitchen and dining space)
• A study (as I work from home), which should also double as a playroom
• Separation between the living room and the dining room
• My partner is not keen on converting the garage into a kitchen.

Thank you all so much in advance for your advice!

I'd take some of the lounge to make a bigger kitchen diner.
Bedroom 5 becomes study/playroom.
Either back bit of garage or the rear end if bedroom 5 to become a utility.

Put sliding door from dining into garden, take away hall door and small wall.
If any more space needed for utility use the garden to form a larger kitchen utility dining space. Do you need the small door from the kitchen to outside? What is outside the door? Is there any space outside that door to add utility?
Are you open to having some of utility indoors and some (like a wooden clad laundry trough and bench) being outdoors to double as a BBQ prep area?
Can the toilet be included in the utility room? If so, you would have more foyer space near the front door.
Fifth bedroom becomes play room and office.

Thank you so much for your replies, amazing ideas. The small door in the kitchen leads to a side access that connects both the front and rear gardens. Along this side access, there is a small makeshift shed where food produce is currently stored, and it is also used as a cat run.

I'd turn bedroom 5 into the kitchen with dining room.

Kitchen into study.

Close dining and lunge off with sliding door.

Turn back of garage into utility.

Or

Completely change it around like this

Thank you so much, getting more ideas.

Do you have any scope to extend out the back? I would probably want to keep the lounge as it is as looks a good size.

Couldn't write well on this for some reason - I would convert garage into an office and turn half of the downstairs bedroom into a utility room then put a door on the lounge and do a 2/3m extension full width out the back of the house giving you a big open kitchen / diner and playroom. I can't see how a combined office and playroom would work - kids want to be with you so I would just use a corner of the new family space.

Not sure if photo is adding or not

I'd want a hall - I hate thru living rooms.

Not sure about load bearing walls but this might work

I guess you have to imagine the views and light (as the Sun moves during the day). Is this a semi?

I'd make some of the existing kitchen into a utility.

Then the rest of the kitchen and dining room and into bed 5 an open kitchen diner. The rest of bedroom 5 would be a study and toy store.

Moving the kitchen is costly for plumbing etc.

Yes, this I what I would do too. Hard to see without measurements but sectioning off the lounge with a corridor to the kitchen would keep the lounge as a kid stuff free zone!
I would move the WC from the hall and put it in the utility room. We have just done this and it's working well, gives room for a storage/coat/shoe cupboard in the halll.

Amazing ideas 😊. It’s a detached house. I was also thinking of having a hall leading to the kitchen but was thinking of cost. I really appreciate all your help. Amazing to visualise things better. Here is the measurements

Separate WC - 3'6" x 6'10" (1.07m x 2.10m)
Lounge - 13'2" x 15'4" (4.02m x 4.69m)
Dining Room - 8'2" x 9'10" (2.49m x 3.02m)
Kitchen - 8'1" x 9'9" (2.48m x 2.98m)

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH

Ah ok - my sketch had about a meter shaved off the right side of the living room to create the hall, and also the top probably 1.5 meters off the top too, to bring it in line with the door to the new kitchen diner, so suggested new dimensions of the lounge at around:
3.02m x 3.19m

I would do this too! I think there's something to be said for having a door into your utility room for hanging washing out, dirty shoes, coats, recycling etc.
I'd keep a doorway from the hall into the kitchen/family room so you can close it off for noise/heat/cooking smells etc.