Hi. Your kitchen looks large enough to have a dining table at the bottom (are there windows or doors overlooking the garden?) or against the wall between the kitchen and WC (if you moved the fridge and larder). If you want a separate dining room I suggest having it in the gap between the hall and kitchen to save you from carrying food from one end of the house to the other. Depending on the size of your TV it might fit either side of the fireplace - you could wall mount it or build bespoke shelving units either side of the fireplace to save space. Your floor plan looks like a 1930s semi which has had a large rear extension. If you are able to remodel the house you may be able to get a floor plan which works better for you. Depending on drainage and whether the wall between the kitchen and utility is load bearing (is there a room upstairs?), I would be tempted to knock the two rooms together and have a large kitchen/lounge/dining room at the rear. You could fit a small utility and WC in the space between the kitchen and the hall and use the lounge at the front as a snug/TV room (possibly fit French doors to close it off).

Ok, so I've never commented on Houzz before (despite being a huge reader) but the shape of your house really intrigued me as it's very charming but quite tricky. Looking at just the ground floor, I think that an extension that fills in the 'rectangle' floorpan of the whole house might work. The loo and shower should be moved so that they are not blocking off movement flowing through the ground floor. To get a bigger hallway you could move back the wall currently going into the kitchen, so that you incorporate the small window into the hall. Remove the wall by the stairs and turn the stairway itself into a feature which would make the hallway - and stairs themselves - feel much roomier (I can't see from your floorpan whether they are already open to the hallway). What's currently the kitchen could become a utility with downstairs loo (move the shower upstairs into new bathroom over new extension, taking a bit from bedroom 1?). I have recently had an extension kitchen built on our own house and turned the old (tiny) kitchen into a laundry/boot room - best decision ever with a growing family! In the utility room you could put in a stacked wash/tumbler (if you want a tumbler, or else just cupboards/laundry on top) and a downstairs loo, as well as more storage. In the new kitchen, you could have double/french/sliding/bifold doors as per your taste looking out SE into the garden, creating a long sightline - and feeling of space - from the garden right through the kitchen into the far room. This would create a spacious-feeling kitchen tied into the rest of the house. You could block up the door into the current dining room and take out the wall between the dining/living. Keeping the dining room as dining, this gives you a cosy room there for small intimate dinners but also the potential to have big dinner parties on a long extended table stretching out into the living room. When not entertaining, that slightly self-contained room (as it's not a through-route as is the rest of the house) could be used as a study/quieter reading room. You now have a house that is welcoming for entertaining - guests come through the front door, where there's space for coats/hatstands, straight through the open door into the living room and are greeted by the fireplace ahead of them, and look round to see the dining table. Downstairs loo for guests nicely separated from all the action. Please excuse my very rough sketch of what I mean, and its lack of scale!

Don't worry, the original middle section of the house is still there, just extended out with the addition of a glass infill. The internal rooms are now larger, full of light and have amazing views.

Hi Yvonne, Congratulations! It's always the way in life to have everything happening at the same time! Our advice would be, if you can live with things the way they are at the moment, to spend your energy and budget on doing the best job you possibly can. If you dream of eventually adding a fabulous extension, work towards that. For inspiration you could look at a Victorian House side extension, internal remodel and glass kitchen extension in Kintbury, Berkshire that we recently undertook (on our Houzz profile and our website www.orangekeyltd.co.uk ). The clients at the time had two very small children and busy jobs! It really is worth getting some advice from a local architectural designer as they will be able to re imagine the internal layout to best suit your family needs and lifestyle, and offer advice about extending. We offer all local prospective clients a free on site consultation - see if you can find a reputable local architectural practice who will do the same for you. Best regards, Jo/Orange Key