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Hi Seren, You appear to have a very good grasp on the way forward for your new house, very exciting. As per normal the agents plans leave a lot to be guessed and with limited other info, like who's going to be living there, are you working from home, Aspect etc etc. You will and have already received a lot of interesting helpful ideas for your consideration, this will be helpful when you proceed with your chosen local Pro after having lived in the house for 6-12 mths to get a better understanding of the flow and use etc I would also like you to add to this. Butlers Pantries are a Fad and were originally built in house holds that had a Butler or employed some one to clean/cleanup for them. This space is much better to be included in the actual carefully planned kitchen, Laundry, I don't agree with it being combined with the current kitchen in that very small space, where do you put dirty laundry and baskets full of either clean or dirty, there's not enough floor space, so will make a very small kitchen even smaller Ensuite and WIR I don't think that they are a must, another fad, when your 3 bedroom 1 bath home was built they did the right thing with making the toilet separate to the bathroom to allow for better function. I love spaces that can be multi functional and I'am not talking about Media rooms. Bedrooms can be so much more and yours appear to be of good size but we won't know until correct measurements are taken. Bedrooms are great spaces to get away to with a comfortable chair or two to read and yep watch TV, these days they take up so little space and as I'am not the football loving kind it works for me. Home office Study, Don't put in your bedroom, horrible, that's why in my plan even though the space is small, I have suggested a separate Landry, a Pantry/Study/computer looking out into the rear garden. A pantry only needs a wall of narrow shelves to store appliances and food stuff in Containers, I don't want to stand in a Pantry doing dishes!. That's why we have open plan kitchen family rooms to spend time together, formal dining rooms aren't necessary. Yes, to remove walls is a bit more complicated than not having to, I have experience with this having helped remove a large brick wall in our Federation house to allow for a combined kitchen and family room which was the best thing we did. Hubby and a builder neighbour fitted the two steel RXJ's, I was on brick removal duty with a wheel barrow. ( We had a family engineer approve this work). There wasn't enough space to build out and have a pool, so we chose to go with a pool instead. Your house as far as can be seen appears to have a reasonable amount of land, so a connected Pavillion might be the best solution going forward to give you more space. Can't just allow the Pro's to make long Posts Take your time and keep us posted cheers

While it looks nice , I still can't understand why every before photo on every design website has a weeks worth of clutter and the power disconnected ; the after has 3 times the number of lights , every light turned on and every benchtop polished to within an inch of it's life . . . . . . . . . .

With estimating the distance from walls to window, and assuming you do not want external access here are my thoughts. Turn toilet and install privacy wall. Install full height storage next to door. Then on the window wall, have a bench running along the full wall., except in the corner to allow for your top loading washing machine .With under bench storage, and also install overhead storage either side of window. I’ve assumed the window position because you have not given us those measurements.