Hey Lisa How about something like this? * Sofa in original spot with cupboards and dressers etc to left of it for work space, with the range and fridge to far left? Turning the Island to make home to the Sink and Dishwasher which can be fitted below (I did this in my Ramsey project if you want to have a little look, attached the image below.) Leaving room to sit for breakfast on the other side and views out of your bi-folds when at the sink! :) Of course with a a Oval table for a welcoming family dining space. (Excuse the rough drawing... i'm on the train! ) I hope this helps, if you need any advice or a nudge in the right direction, feel free to get in contact. - Kerry @KerryBryanInteriors

@arc3d I dug out the very first design we had drawn up for the ground floor and interestingly the kitchen space isn't too dissimilar from your proposal, with some adjustment to door placement. It would be very nice to have enough room to clearly separate seating from dining furniture and I'm not sure it's possible in the current plans without doing as you suggest. Referring to our existing plans, my thinking was to move bench seating with dining table (extendable 6-8 person) to the party wall and seating to bay window area as @rinked suggested. Hopefully that would free up space for a small 2-seater sofa facing windows and couple of chairs with a side/coffee table. Note, the reason we introduced a double step-in to the external wall was because although not captured in the plans, the passageway tapers towards the house and we want to maintain a 700mm to run bicycles and wheelie bins to the rear. I think a side window in the kitchen wall was omitted because it faces our neighbours brick wall; maybe we could add one retrospectively at head height to the planning application, to reflect the side window in the extension: @rosemonde Below are the submitted plans for the other floors and external elevations for comparison to your house (- ignore the stair direction on 1st floor; this will be flipped but there's a separate application for the loft under PD so the plan here shows the current stairs). I should also add that we plan to change the walk-in wardrobe in 2nd floor plans so that the entrance is opposite the en-suit, with drawers along length of eaves and wardrobes along length of partition; we feel this will give us more bed placement options (e.g. facing the rear window) and make the walk-in section less cluttered. Our current layout is awful (we recently purchased the house knowing we'd do this work); the kitchen is where utility is planned, there's a horrible lean-to conservatory where extension is planned and a similarly nasty lean-to utility to the side, the current bathroom is oddly split into a bath and separate shower room (with two adjacent toilets split by the partition) and loft space is a bedroom with non-reg stairs, floor joists and ropey dormer window. We're making the study 2m wide as well to make it a more practical size (it's currently 1.4m) and potentially use it as an overspill 5th single bedroom if necessary: Hope this helps you with your own plans and feel free to PM me if you want further info :-)

could you switch the bath and shower round? not a huge deal if you can't...I'm just thinking that opening a door and have a glass shower screen right next to you could make the room feel small? whereas a bath sat there could create a more open feel? I personally would say keep it all tiled- paint can often peel in a bathroom so it's easier to keep it tiled and I would say just have one big mirror above the toilet and sink because that's going to give the room that seamless contemporary feel which you are after hope that helps 😁

Try and have a 900 L shaped base in each corner instead of straight corner base units. By doing this you have 2 x 316mm doors on which both open giving you full access to the whole of the area. When you have a straight corner base as you have with the 900 you will be on your knees to fully access the deep corner. On the left hand side you will need a 600 L shaped wall and a 300 wall each side of it to correspond with the 900 L base. You may have to mkve the sink over slightly in this area. I’m not a lover of drawerline as they are not really fashionable at the moment. Many people have drawer packs as opposed to drawerline and just full height doors.