Hello, my previous flat was very similar except your bedroom at the back was the kitchen and your kitchen was a dining room. The main problem with the current layout is when you have very young children and you’re in the kitchen preparing food, you can’t keep and eye on the children or talk to them whilst multi-tasking. If you don’t mind me asking, are all 3 bedrooms currently occupied? If not and only 2 are occupied, I would use the back bedroom as a dining room and can also be used for the kids to play. When you come to sell, depending on how many children you have then, you could always carve up the living room to make a very small bedroom on the left. These flats are great when there are only 2 people, it just gets a bit challenging when the family expands. Also you don’t want to spend too much money renovating if you are going to sell in the future.

I'd also be inclined to swap them as Jonathan suggested. Check fire regulations, as perhaps you do need to rotate the stairs to allow an open kitchen. (I'm in the Netherlands so can't advise on these.)

I hope I am assuming correctly from the window placement that this house is detached? Maybe its a bit simplistic but swapping the kitchen with the reception room and extending into the left corner would give you a floorplan closer to what you had. You could also open up the wall between the dining room and the current reception room which would give you a decent sized kitchen diner. It would be good to see a floorplan of upstairs too. There is no question that there is less floorspace than where you were before. You will probably need a downstairs WC too maybe the current utility room?

Thanks for the floorplan! I don't mind keeping the kitchen as it is. But I do like the bathroom, bedroom layout! And definitely brining that wall out to create the 2nd bedroom which would then include the window.