Floorplan/layout help

[lstedham]

Hi, looking for recommendations from those creative one's please. What would you do with this layout? Interested in buying, but feel the living space is a bit disjointed atm. Would be looking for:
Open plan kitchen/dining/living
A separate snug/living room
4 beds
Utility room

Any recommendations welcome, but wouldn't have a large budget, so no major renovations.
TIA

If you can afford to move the kitchen I would put that in the living room and convert the kitchen to the snug/living room. Xx

Or you could have the back of the house as the living/dining space and the front as bedrooms? Bedroom 2 as the snug, kitchen in the living room and make the kitchen into the master bedroom with ensuite. you could also use some of that study as a utility? How's the light in the dining room? I was going to suggest that as a snug but then realised there was no windows so might be a bit claustrophobic if you were to make it a room rather than open plan. X

Bedroom 2 becomes the snug. Kitchen becomes bedroom 2 with utility behind en-suite. Living/dining/study becomes your open plan kitchen/living/dining.

@Hedgingmybetching the dining room has a sky light, but if the archways we're all closed up, I'm not sure how the lighting would be. In a perfect world, I would have made that into the snug.
@titchy that's a good idea. How would you get into the utility? Have to go through the bedroom?

I would make the study the dining room and open it up a bit into the kitchen to be more of a kitchen diner.
I would make the current dining room a bedroom.
I would make bedroom 2 the snug. And I would definitely remove the doorway between that room and the lounge.
On the website selling it the last few photos seem to be of a static caravan. Is that included?
The lounge is a really good size - big enough for a pool table!

@MyOtherProfile the current dining room would be great as a bedroom so that bed 2 could be the snug, but there's no window! This is my only issue with that room, nothing i think of seems to work in a room with no window 🤔
I would love the massive living room at the front to be an open plan kitchen/dining/living, just need to try and make sense of the rest of the layout!

I once had a bedroom with no window and it was fine. Of all rooms it can work with no window.

Current layout seems to suggest that you go in the front door, through hallway, through bedroom 2, through living room, through study to get to kitchen. Unless you go in back door. And that you can only access living room through bedroom 2 or through back door.

I would:

Take the lower part of bedroom 1 (with the window), add additional door from hall to give entry, add additional door to give access to kitchen, and turn it into a utility space, including a spare toilet.

Remove en suite and give that space back to the kitchen to give a full square room.

Take the upper part of bedroom 1 (with existing doorway) and turn into a snug.

Change existing dining room into bedroom.

Add doorway from hall to living room just above existing dining room. Close up existing doorway from bedroom 2 into living room.

Use existing study as dining area.

This gives you kitchen into dining space into living room. Also gives you better access to kitchen and living room from hallway, which I’m guessing has the front door.

@MyOtherProfile yes I suppose it can be done, but I'm sure under building regs it couldn't be sold as a bedroom, and not sure I'd want to a bedroom that I couldn't air!
@paranoiaofpufflings you can access the kitchen through the door into the dining room, then archway into study (which is also being used as part of the dining room), and again as above, I'm not keen on using the dining room as a bedroom as it has no window 🫤 it's baffling me as to how to use it sensibly!

Cheapest and simplest way I think is to block up door between bed2 and lounge. Make kitchen, study, dining room all one big open planned kitchen diner. And make up wall between these and lounge to separate these two areas. Then put a new door into the lounge from the hall way.

This would work. So essentially all you're doing is moving the lounge door down a bit and blocking up the arches between the lounge and the other rooms.

Maybe you can put some kind of skylight above the dining room and study if it's dark.

Thanks @2cleverlovingchildren , yes this would definitely be the cheapest option! Not sure I could bring myself to not have the heart of the home looking out onto the garden though.
Anyone else have the lounge opening up into the garden instead of the kitchen/diner?

The easiest thing to do would be to just swap the dining room and study around. If you want to keep 4 beds, it will be tricky to fit in a ‘snug’ unless you make the current dining room into one and forgo the en-suite to make a utility. I would also close off the door to the bedroom from the living room!

Or, make bedroom 2 into the kitchen (this would depend on the cost of moving the utilities) and make the kitchen into another bedroom but you would have to lose the cupboards in the bedroom with the en-suite for access.

Which way is north? That would affect the plan.