Hi Kate, do you have any floor plans or pictures which will help us visualise the areas?

Personally if I were to put a runner down the area I'd keep it either plain or a very soft muted colour palate maybe with the grey and natural colours as right now it looks quite classy so you don't want to make it to bold or in your face just soft and calming for the area to enhance it all as one look. I don't really think you need one at all as I love the softness of the area as a whole as it is, sometimes less is more but it once again comes down to personal taste.

i have a problem with the awkward location of stairs that wastes the sunroom, makes the rumpus room difficult to furnish and the front door has a view of the toilet ...beginning with central stairs and potentially modifying doorways to allow for the stairs without having to walk across the rumpus or upstairs living room attempts to avoid the big wide hallways affect without useful locations for furniture ..the rumpus room now has space for comfortable furnishing and private access to a full bathroom and good sized laundry...using the old sunroom for a compartmented bathroom retains the original walls and windows and includes space for a bathtub and shower with big views.. we should always include real scale sized furniture to establish the best walking paths across rooms and my suggestions also retain the size of the original kitchen to keep more of the original walls and ceilings and retains the proportion of the bay window and allows space for an alternate access to bed 3 (preferable the linen cupboard would remain in this location) and consider avoiding the enclosed pantry (would the door ever be closed?) in favour of a more open space for better light and ventilation and maybe a herb garden window box in the bay window with external blinds to exclude western sun.. there's a fridge closer to the outdoors, stacked wo and MW to define the pantry and only a small sink in the island for more useful set down space for shopping and serving meals

Thanks Kate. In the first photo at top of this thread is our existing house, with the load bearing walls being the solid lines on outside. We now have a tweaked plan version 3 below- but still not convinced yet... We were keen to make bedroom 2 and 3 a bit bigger as the kids will use their room more than we will lol! What we are looking to do would be to add on one end (the lounge and master) and widen Bed 2 a bit as it is quite narrow. We would like to improve the kitchen and dining and entrance but getting a bit stuck here. We are trying use the space we have got without changing too much to save in cost but this area is important to us and would be used probably more than the lounge, which is quite big in comparison. The alfresco would be a bonus. It is more so that we want to include a back door leading outside as otherwise people would need to go back out the front entry or use the laundry door which is pokey and small. If we could revamp the kitchen and dining in a creative way, so the dining doesn't look so small compared to the lounge that would be good. The idea would be to see how big/far we can go, then ask a builder to quote and if too expensive, scale it right back...We have ruled out going up as we thought this too expensive?