Floorplan advice - where to put kitchen

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I’ve seen loads of great ideas on here, so hoping for some help.

Our layout is below - key problems are that there is no seating in the kitchen, and the conservatory is too hot / too cold but a really good size.

Options are:

1. get a new kitchen with seating, and put a roof on the conservatory. I think this would be cheapest.

2. move the kitchen to the dining area, have the existing kitchen as a new snug, and put a roof on the conservatory as a playroom (with a view to have this as more formal dining when kids are older).

3. do a proper extension where the conservatory is, lose the back wall of the lounge and move the kitchen to the conservatory with bifolds to the garden (most expensive). (Again, snug in old kitchen).

I’ve been going round in circles and can’t decide what to do.

its not possible to knock between the kitchen and lounge as they are different levels. (Current kitchen is upper ground floor).

Any other ideas also welcome!

I would probably look at making the dining room into a lounge and open up the current lounge & kitchen into a large kitchen/dining/family space.

I would have your kitchen as the snug lounge, dining room as the kids playroom and then turn your lounge into a kitchen with the conservatory as the dining room, put a new roof on the conservatory and change the doors between the current lounge and conservatory to pocket doors if building regs allow you to do this

This is the right answer. The dining area is only 20% bigger than the current kitchen so there's no point switching the kitchen to there. But the lounge is almost twice the size - plenty big enough for a kitchen with seating. And having playroom and dining room adjacent to the kitchen is perfect