Can you add the widths across house. Also do you want to swap dining and family? What does it mean by step up breakfast bar? Photo might help.

please include the full house plans and distance to boundaries, how do you use the living family and dining rooms and how many people live in the house?

hi kate, enlarging the posted plan shows the whole house including the width!

I have 2 adult children in each of the bedrooms and my new partner potentially moving in. Within a couple of years kids might be gone. It’s quite a small house and the shower is broken and needs ripping up so if I do that then I thought I’d get ideas for doing the adjoining rooms as everything is old and broken and needs renovating. I would actually prefer to sell and start afresh but financially may not be possible.

The walk up breakfast bar is just a half height wall behind the sink so it’s open to the “dining“ room which is in fact just a lounge room.

Currently we have the dining table in the family room and I guess it works well. Wasn’t sure the cost of moving gas fixtures for oven and plumbing in kitchen as I prefer a long island bench but if ends up costing thousands more to relocate them then I’ll have to stick with existing layout. Really need more storage hence the butlers pantry is on wish list. I have a brick feature wall adjacent to the kitchen in the “dining” room as wondering about moving the kitchen to have cupboards against the brick wall as I don’t like the colours of the bricks a yellow orange and brown and find it hard to furnish my living room as a result.

sorry I know it’s hard without photos but my house is too cluttered atm to take photos!!

Okl I’m using Houzz app on iPad and it crops the image. So many missing features

Are you on a slab?
Gas can be done by plumber when fixing bathroom.
You could pain the brick wall. Cheever. But that whole room is too long just for living.

Oops Cheever should be Cheaper

hi Kate the internal width of the building is 6500 and the family room is 3500 x 4700