Nice house and match the tiles

Could you extend the study nook out to the left to create a meals area (combination of built in bench seating and free seats) and then depending on which room you wanted seperate to the kitchen/meals allocate a lounge and playroom to the now semi divided rooms? The kitchen configuration looks like it should stay, assuming you’re not extending out, but you could enhance the two rear windows to take in the yard...

If the renovation is taking full advantage of the north, then the porcelain tiles will warm up during the winter months from the sun. If you have wooden floors in the direct sun, they may start to fade. We have porcelain concrete look 600x600mm tiles, with rectified edge. Very pleased with the look. Have been laid for almost 5 years and have no scratches etc.

Thanks for all your replies and feedback. I haven't provided a lot more detail as the location of the kitchen/living areas go will dictate how the rest of the layout flows. This is going to be our forever home. We do not have children yet but planning to start a family soon. We are definitely relocating the stairs to the side of the property regardless as its current location is not really optimal. Louiab's point about losing that connection from the living areas to the garden is what we are concerned about, hence one of the option is to just open up the ground floor, keeping the kitchen and living downstairs and having bedrooms on the first floor. A third option would be have a formal living area at the rear of the first floor and have stairs connecting down to the kitchen and courtyard. That way, we can open up the ground floor to the courtyard and still keep the city skyline view in a common area.