Budget?

Always good to avoid 'internal' rooms even when bathroom.

Halve the family to be a bathroom.

Bathroom to be kitchen.

Open up walls between formal dining and the meals/exist kitchen.

Remaining family to be a sitting/study perhaps. Another bedroom even?

Are the rooms to the left closed in Verandahs?, Federation houses are known for their beautiful verandahs, just a very rough idea, it would be cheaper to move the kitchen and leave the bathroom insitu, you could remodel and change access if you wanted to. Cheers

Nice idea siriuskey! I had never thought of that one. The off street parking mentioned on the plan is not actually off street parking, so it may be too far away from the entrance. Will definitely keep it in mind though. Thank you!

MB, I had thought of that but we have lovely views from the family room. I agree about avoiding internal rooms though. At the moment it is basically a library (we have a LOT of books) but is mostly used for folding laundry. Our budget would be up to $150000.

Do you still have the brick hearth, that would have been part of the laundry, hope it's still there as it would be lovely. I suggest that the two rooms to the left were verandah's , with the laundry at the end and the original kitchen at the rear, that's why the living/dining are now in the center of the house. With your budget I would try to keep as much as possible in the same position, Just another very rough idea for you cheers.

Thanks again, siriuskey. Unfortunately the hearth was not original - reo concrete with very unattractive brown 70's tiles around it. The fireplaces in the dining/lounge and main bedroom are still there. The room that is now the robe/ensuite was (I think) the verandah and the family room was the utilities (laundry/store). The two bedrooms to the right are 80s extensions as is the bathroom. I really appreciate your advice :), it's great to get some other ideas.

what are the dimensions of the kitchen meals area, where is the laundry, what's the condition of the existing bathroom and kitchen and what is the structure past the back door?

Hi Kat your house reminds me of our first single front Federation, it had one main room (bedroom) at the front that went to the boundary, set back on the other side was the entry to a narrow entrance the width of the front room, on the right were double glass doors which opened into the living room with fireplace on the left and a beautiful large leadlight window on the right which you looked at the neighbours brick wall of their house approx 1 m away. Then behind this room there was another large room dining/family which had French doors opening onto the narrow side access to the rear of the house. (neighbours wall)

In the rear space of the house was a bathroom and a galley shaped kitchen on the left side with the square space cornered by both the kitchen and dining room a covered in Verandah which became the only other bedroom. The toilet was out the back.

So I think your house started out in a similar layout, except unlike us you had a long passage to access your rooms where as we had to walk through two of our rooms to access the kitchen etc. Definately think that your now ensuite was a verandah and the room behind that possibly an enclosed Verandah (fixed walls on the lower level with windows above, the lower walls would not have been lined) which would have been as you said laundry etc, I wonder where the original bathroom was Would be good to check with council to see how it looked when first built. cheers

oklouise, the structure at the back door is a patio, which backs on to our granny flat. This area gets loads of sun and is quite sheltered (we are in Tasmania so both are brilliant). The bathroom and kitchen are both in good condition but dated, and the layout of both is pretty impractical. The laundry is outside and we would look at putting in a European laundry if we were to change the floorplan. Thanks for your advice, it is another idea we hadn't thought about!

if you were planning to move the bathroom and want a European laundry inside i think my suggested plan should give the most useable space without having to move external walls Carefully positioned splashback and/or highlight windows in the new kitchen will help take advantage of the great orientation and adding glass sliding doors and expanding the patio with a kitchen servery window would improve the indoor out connection

The new bathroom layout is much better than the old but I wouldn't
consider a bathroom without access to an external wall unless it was say
in an apartment with limited space, certainly not in Tassie. Cheaper
and more practical to keep in the original space, perhaps with easy
external access from the patio. Keeping the kitchen in the same position and including a Euro Laundry
but removing walls either side of the fireplace between it and the
formal dining room idea photos attached This will allow more light into the house cheers

The retained fireplace could open both sides or not for heating the whole space

I love this site! So many great ideas - thank you all so much!