Floor plan rework - suggestions pls

[Upnorthof70]

Hi everyone, we’ve recently purchased this house but the layout doesn’t quite work for me. I don’t like where the cloakroom is.. was wondering if that could be in the front porch area or if too small.. I’d also like a slightly bigger kitchen but would like to keep a utility room. Any expert layout planners/designers have suggestions pls? Oh yes I’d also love to keep costs minimal

Forgot to attach the floor plan!

I would block up the wall between the clockroom and the family room, move the layout of the toilet around and knock through to it from the utility room.
Put a door across the utility room from the kitchen and knock through from the kitchen to family room to have a really big kitchen diner and use the current dining room as a separate living room / play room / study / snug. Move the kitchen to the other side so you've got more straight walls.
Also block up the door from the hall to the family room.
(this might not be the lowest cost option!)

It will not be possible to move the loo to the front porch if there isn't drainage on that side of the building.
I may also be tricky movingthe kitchen for the same reasons.

I don't think there is an obvious way to make the kitchen bigger without moving it or doing an extantion but I could be wrong

I think this is a great idea op. Depending on size of the new dining room I might install a baquette bench against a wall for one/two sides of the table to save space.

It’s a shame that the existing cloakroom and utility are blocking the view to the garden, and the potential for a large kitchen/family room. Supposing you took out the wall between the existing kitchen/family, then partitioned off a third of the existing kitchen from front to back to provide an enclosed toilet, utility and back door into the garden. Then have a slightly smaller kitchen/family room. Demolish the existing utility and cloakroom, or turn them into a reading nook with floor to ceiling windows, or a window seat.
sorry I can’t do the plans at the moment.

Minimal cost might be like this? Excuse the pitiful drawing 🤣

Love this but I would keep kitchen where it is and use the recess by the stairs for storage space or a big fridge freezer.

Yes, keeping the kitchen where it is would be a cheaper version of my suggestion! I think moving the door to the toilet into the utility is a no brainer regardless of what else you do.

lookmg at the dimensions I think you could potentially even shuffle the toilet and basin to the utility room side of that wall, add a sliding door to make a tiny seperate loo in what is now the utility, and then change the existing loo to a pantry if you were moving the kitchen.

the alternative would be to move the stairs from the kitchen to one of the other rooms if the upstairs layout allows for it. Its not as hard as you think as long as you don't also have to reconfigure bedrooms around it, and its generally easier to use 'under the stairs' effectively in lounges/family rooms than in a kitchen.