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Put the door on the left of the family room and put the downstairs toilet/shower under the stairs? Assuming the door under the stairs is for a storage cupboard?
Kitchen diner will be long, so as long as you have a decent extractor, I don’t think smoke/smells should be a big issue.
You’ll be swapping the family room and dining room in purpose anyway I expect?
A small extension, extending the dining room to the bottom wall of the family room and then opening it out, while keeping the kitchen separate might be worth considering.
Lounge could then be shared office space, or for 1 person and a bedroom used as a study.
Acliff-
snap (re family room door)
good point re length of room. I'm definitely getting a properly ventilated cooker hood - hate these extractors that don't run anywhere!
Looking at other buildings on the street, nobody seems to have run an extension out from the dining room area, which makes me wonder if there's some planning problem there
got two kids (currently sharing which is fine) but in the long term they'll have a bedroom each so all bedrooms are spoken for. I suspect there's room for an attic extension but no way to confirm it as currently the only way up there is by ladder from the outside...
gillies
bidding on this place tomorrow - it needs work to bring it up to date but the fundamentals are fine
trying to make sense of how to plan it - key things are to move the bathroom as I don't like that location next to the kitchen at all and how to fit two office/desk spaces in there
obviously this is all dependent on structural concerns but, in an ideal world, what makes most sense? I'm thinking moving the WC to the nook at the top of the 'family room' and making the door facing into the hallway
undecided about whether i want the family room/kitchen open plan either - do i want smoke/cook smell wafting into where we are likely to be eating?