Floor plan help please! Bungalow ideas for family

[5weekold]

Hi! Does anyone have any floorplan ideas or suggestions for this bungalow? Things we would like in priority order;

• an open kitchen/diner with bifold doors to the garden at the back
• a utility room/pantry
• for the third bedroom to be bigger

We have a young family with 2 children. Does anyone have any opinions on whether this would be better done by extending on the ground floor or creating a second floor?

The garage is completely separate and not in the location shown.

TIA!

knock the kitchen wall down to make that an open plan family room with kitchen / dining / sitting room. Add bifold doors along the back wall.
Block up side door into the dining room and make that the third bedroom.
Turn the current bedroom 3 into a utility room and make the window into a back door.

Not sure if I’m replying correctly but thanks so much for the idea, I hadn’t thought about swapping the bedroom and living room!

I think the only downside of my plan is that your pantry wouldn't be immediately adjacent to the kitchen. Probably fine if you just want it as a utility room, boot room from the garden, and to store bulk buy sort of items, pet food etc, but less convenient if you want it more as a walk in food cupboard for regular use.
Or You could extend either extend onto the front of existing kitchen and make a pantry where that compass arrow is, then use the current bedroom 3 as a study / guest room.
Or you could possibly move the kitchen wall back and make a small pantry/utility with the existing back door into it?
Or you could extend bedroom room alongside the dining room (loosing the side dining room window), then keep the dining room as a play room or adult snug separate from the open plan living area.
So many options depending on budget!

Could you make the sitting room a kitchen/diner (not a cheap option) with the doors to outside, turn current kitchen into bedroom, turn dining room into bedroom, and make bedroom 2 your new living room (Knocking out wardrobes)? Then as suggested above make bedroom 3 the utility room. For me this is a better use of the existing floor plan, but if you can build above or out then there might be better options!

Bedroom 3 becomes the utility.
Dining room becomes a bedroom but block up one of the doors.
knock wall through so have an open plan kitchen and sitting room but you could build a large cupboard as a pantry.

I might also consider moving the front entrance door to the side to get rid of that narrow corridor (add it to one of the bedrooms). That way when you come into the house you go right into the shared spaces, and left into the private areas. Also reduces possible disturbance to sleeping children from late deliveries, or from socialising/tv/music in the living areas. Also a much more aesthetically pleasing entrance to the house as it is not so narrow.

Bedroom 2 doesn't seem to have a door!