Which living room do you use all the time. Where is the dining seating that you use all the time? You have so many living areas and two cramped dining areas. Your home is a typical Dianella 1990,s build with lots of angles.
By the real estate photos, I would remove the half wall between dining near kitchen and the living room and make that into one big dining area. Add a buffet or small lounge as well. Take out the odd shaped island. And put in a square island.

Or another option. Remove half wall between meals and living room. Remove round obstruction and angle from island and make into a rectangle peninsula.

Radical change

Or this which could be flipped the other way depending on which way you want to face. Do guests enter kitchen from dining or theatre room?

Or move kitchen to dining or theatre rooms. So many options

With all concrete slab and brick walls, the options would be limited by the owners budget.

With any change of plumbing the floor tiles will need ripping up and concrete will need jack hammering. With any change of electrical the brick walls will need to be re chased for electrical cabling, for any removal of internal walls, the brick needs to be removed and re plastered with new ceiling and cornices etc. I would keep to small aesthetic changes.

Thank you so much fir all your assistant. I think we will definantly be removing the wall that breaks up the meals and living area and turning it into a large dining space. For me the biggest issue or concern is designing a good size kitech with plenty of bench space. I love you idea with the square island and even the gallery kitchen. I'm assuming there is no way i would be able to fit in a butlers pantry? The pantry size we do have is very good though but like i said, I just want to utilise the space as best as possible and the odd shape is throwing me off a bit. Thanks a million for all your suggestions. :)

If you don’t use the dining room on the right of kitchen plan, this could be easily converted to a butlers pantry. If you install a wall between formal lounge and dining. The formal lounge will then become a private room, not a thoroughfare. This potentially be your theatre room, and the theatre room showing on the plan, becomes your everyday living room, since it is a thoroughfare also. If you look at your plans your kitchen is basically a square room. Don’t get confused by the angled bench. I think the oven is in a dangerous place, in the walkway. If the dining was changed into a butlers pantry this would take away some of the danger. Because the oven would no longer be in a thoroughfare to dining and lounge.

You are such a huge help. I like this idea but I don't like the fact that I loose that louge space as I would like to create a bar with a sitting area in that space and still keep it opn. Is there a suggestion you might have for a slightly smaller butlers pantry? And, I completley agree regarding the oven, it is in an akward spot. :) Thanks for all you suggestions, really helkping me with the planning process. Also, I'm not opposed to closing the kitchen off to the theatre room – that way it would be a bigger space with potenitally a better layout.

Something like this. Still have the storage pantry in formal dining but smaller. Utilising the remaining part of that room for your bar area. No need to put a wall up, between lounge and the new bar,keep it open. I would not close off the theatre room. You are then limited to go past the bedrooms or through the lounge to get to the kitchen. Maybe just install a door. The main concern is budget. So if you can work with the current walls, electrical and plumbing it would be better.

Butlers assuming short wallsnest to oven r can go

With bar accessing sink

Another variation keeping the short wall where oven currently is

always subject to accurate dimensions and window locations my suggestion includes a small bar and separate pantry and closing the door between kitchen and theatre allows much better furniture arrangement for TV watching

Thank you @oklouise for your suggestions. Do you think the bar area could remain as an open room? I initally planned on having a display built-in cabinet bar installed with a few chairs even perhaps a bookshelf for this space, but love your idea of the pantry space and kitchen. In regards to your design, the space next to the sink is that designed as bench space or cabinets? I think this layout would wourk great for our home :) Thanks for all you have done.

the bar area would still be open to the lounge but can't be any bigger without making the pantry too small to be worthwhile but i have included base cabinets with enough room for tall or short bar or wine fridges and/or a sit at counter and wall shelves and a couple of stools in the bar but there is very close more comfortable seating in the lounge...all the space next to the kitchen sink is base and wall cabinets or you could have some tall cabinets depending on what you need to store but it would be an ideal location for dinnerware storage for the dining room and/or could make a great study nook

In OKL plan the sink is a long way from stove. To fill and empty pots. Can you get plumbing across room?

Thank you for all your suggestions and ideas @Kate. I would probably have one more sink installed in the middle island as well to avoid making it difficult when cooking 🧑‍🍳 thank you

and a sink in the bar area could be easier to install with pipes from the outside wall

Ok, final bit of advice @oklouise @dreamer @Kate considering I am well in need of help with this grand kitchen how would you style and or position large/tall cabinets and small ones as well as open and/or glass. I like the idea of full ceiling cabinets and a free standing stove with rangehood. Also – cabinets in the island? yay or nay? Thanks a million for all your help regarding this guys – you have been a huge help 🤗

a kitchen floorplan to use for more suggestions

Here are some inspiration photos, keeping the layout as currently is with door into dining room. It really depends what you are doing with your pantry storage. Would you knock down brick walls, and create a walk in pantry, or just a have tall storage in the kitchen, like you have already. And YES always cupboards in the island unless you have metres and metres of storage on side walls. Also we don’t know what aesthetic you are after.

Inspiration

I’d never keep glass cabinets looking tidy. Think about the bench space you need. If you are thinking about appliances behind doors are you and your family the type to close doors and will the doors be in the way when open. What’s in butlers pantry. A kitchen designer, even at Bunnings will talk you through this. Get yourself lots of inspiration photos and narrow down your look. Then think function.

@Kate @oklouise @dreamer you guys have been absolutley amazing. Thank you again for all your suggestions. Once we settle into our new home i will be sure to keep you all posted.

@dreamer thank you for the inspiration images – they are the very same layout of the current plan and a huge help to see how everything would look in current layout. Only concern that I have is where I would plave the fridge? @Kate @oklouise Ideally I would like a modern kitchen but something that doesnt date with neutral or monochorm tones. I also love the idea of traditional finishes 😕

Fridge goes At the end of bench behind the island typically or at entry To pantry

It is up to you to analyse how you and family members work in the kitchen, and then place the cupboards and appliances in the best place for that to work efficiently. I would put the fridge on the wall between current theatre room and kitchen, closer to current meals area. But this may not suit how you work in the kitchen.

Until you work out whether you are having an actual butlers pantry, suggestions from us regarding placement of appliances and cupboards is not relevant.

The following layout keeps access into the kitchen Family room from both the Media and living / Bar rooms and keeps the sink and cooktop in situ.

The wall backing onto the Media has the fridge, ovens and 2400m of Pantry, these pantries can be fitted with drawers to make accessing things simple ,appliances can be lifted across onto the island, this is what works for me in my kitchen.

The Bar can double as a library.

Excellent plan siriusky. This is incorporating existing services and negates the need for a butlers pantry.

The Bar/ Library