Floorplan suggestions / advice

[Mistermeanor]

Hi all, I just wanted to see if anybody has any ideas to make this layout less awkward, specifically the kitchen area. The utility has a downstairs loo which is handy but the location is a bit odd. Would prefer a bigger kitchen.
Thanks in advance!

Can you knock the kitchen and dining room together for a bigger kitchen diner?

Yes that could work actually, don’t know why I didn’t think of that! Tks

Id do this...

P is pantry.
T is table.

I think the rest is self explanatory, but it would depend on the width whether you can run two lots of units in a galley style.

Again, depending on space, I'd potentially wrap around the left side with units, but if not, just end where the wall is.

Is the current kitchen/utility an extension to the original house? Making an assumption here based on window positioning and that wall thickness on the diagram means something. You may need to get a trusted builder in to look at the rooms to help determine if you need an RSJ to support the loss of the separating wall. I like a separate dining room personally, it lets the room be used more flexibly for WFH and social gatherings, but know that's not currently in fashion.

Wow there’s some really great advice and options given here. Really appreciate you all taking time to reply. I guess I need to work out whether to go more open plan or not and then work from there….
To answer a couple of questions, the ‘kitchen / breakfast’ area is the extension, it used to be the lean-to. The other kitchen area and utility was the original kitchen (Victorian terrace).
Love the idea of having a small loo under the stairs actually. Will need to find out how much extra work that would be and whether it’s possible.
You’ve definitely given me food for thought!

I would build a cupboard at the end of the stairs or the utility cupboard

let me see if I can draw it

I’d either put it alongside stairs or adjacent to dinning room wall

put loo one end and washing machine and dryer stacked on top

mught be easier with plumbing to have adjacent to dinning room

thst way you condense the space by having the door in the middle and loo a ne side machines the other

leaves you the rest of the room to play with

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Oh I see, yes that seems like a good option I hadn’t considered. I don’t like the loo where it is but don’t want to remove from the downstairs entirely.

Ww have a victorian with a look under the stairs. Ww also have our washing upstairs as the bathroom was a bedroom, and quite large. So it made sense.

If you can moce the lootility, that would be my preferred option. Even more so than what I've already drawn.

Ooh I’d love an upstairs washing machine! Do the floor noticeably shake?!

Thinking more about this option

if you put the utility on dinning wall with middle door - you could aline the door with a row of kitchen larder cabinets - so it loos like a pantry cupboard door - but actually opens into the utility

so the red is the utility and the blue is the row of pantry cupboards

Not at all. It makes sense for us as our garden is up some steps, so no point in taking it up and down all the time.

LOVE this idea!