Does this floorpan make sense?

[janglemycoppers]

Would love some input into this house design. Dimensions aren't on, but I think you get a feel as the furniture is there. Whole house is about 10m wide if that helps. Do you think it flows nicely, and do you think the loft stairs work?
It's so hard imagining walking everything through!
TIA - I'm sure you're all much wiser than me!

It’s funny how their play habits change so much. At the moment we have a small
playroom that’s mostly storage and they just spread everywhere still! I think it’s definitely useful to have two spaces though to keep the crap somewhere! I like your big lounge though. I was thinking if we styled it as a snug and a family room, maybe the snug would be not filled with kids crap and that stuff would just be in the family space.

Our original plan was to have the play room as a snug and the lounge as a playroom/family room but we realised we would need 2 TVs. Once they get older we will probably turn it into a snug.

It does also come down to personalities too. My daughter is very much like me and likes her own space. She has a teepee in her playroom and she's often sat in there reading. The wee ones already a bulldozer and it's going to be very interesting once he's running around!

It's a lovely long room so we have it set up as a family TV lounge at one end and a socialising space at the other end. We added french doors on to the patio a couple of summers ago. It took about 18 months of rearranging furniture to figure out how to use the lounge/ playroom space effectively. The first 6 months we were only making use of 2/3 of the space and there was so much dead space. It felt like such a shame to waste such a lovely sized room. We couldn't get the seating right, we looked at moving the wall or the door. In the end the solution was to buy a second hand tub chair on eBay for £16! Oddly just that extra seat made us think about the arrangement and the room works in a way it didn't before.

You need to think about how rooms are furnished and how you want to use them as much as the dimensions.

Our kitchen diner didn't work when we moved in. The previous owner had kitchen cupboards that went round into the dining room. It was impractical to get to the cupboards and the dining table looked like it had been squeezed in. We moved the oven to a tall unit where the fridge used to be and refigure the wall where the oven used to be so that we could have an undercounted fridge and the wall units that were in the dining end of the kitchen diner. We have a dresser next to the table. There is clear separation between the kitchen and dining space. The washer and drier were also in the dining end so the building of the utility room was required. It cost us £1500 to do the utility room ourselves and £250 for the tall oven unit - later we gave the kitchen an uplift with new cupboards doors, worktops and tiling. Resolving issues with spaces doesn't have to be expensive.