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There are those glass doors that have internal blinds between the glass. That would give you the option of privacy if you wanted it at some point. The double layer of glass would provide some sound insulation also.Those doors seem to come in various styles. Glass doors sound like a good option so you still get natural light through and wouldn't get a closed-in feel. You'd loose a little bit of the open look when having area framed out for a door. Unless you have a transom window above a door I suppose. Could you have something like a magnetic door stop mounted low on the wall so you can have the door stay open when you have the place to yourselves? I would be inclined to have a door fitted at the foot of the stairs and when left open, sitting up against that length of wall on the kitchen side in the short corridor. Hope that makes sense...

The easiest way is to keep all room doors plain and matching the door frame and skirting boards. The less change in paint colours the less busy it will look. The linen press, since it is a large span and I'm assuming going to have sliding doors on it can be minimised by matching the doors to the wall colour (blue). I had a similar problem in a home with a very dark hallway that had busy louvred doors and two cupboards as well as three other room doors all shoved into that space. We painted the linen press doors (louvred doors and their frames) the same colour as the wall and kept the bedroom and bathroom doors and door frames white. The effect was to make the linen press doors almost invisible so when you look down the hallway what you notice are two bedroom and a bathroom door. It was a huge improvement.

If you need a kitchen for 3 to 4 years I would go for a small, cheap kitchen across the back wall, using freestanding units with storage under and double up your dining table as a kitchen table for prep, like our grandmother's used to do. You could install a sink fairly cheaply and a small cooktop, but maybe just buy a convection microwave to use as an oven? A convection microwave will cook just about anything, and takes up much less space than a full stove. Your cooktop doesn't have to be an electrician installed one. You can also buy table top, plug in induction hotplates. I think you really need 2 hotplates for long term cooking, but look around, see what you can get and what you think might work for you. If you use freestanding units, except for the sink, you could achieve quite an eclectic, funky look on very little money and a lot of imagination. A cheap kitchen doesn't have to look cheap. Check out the free standing units at Ikea, old cupboards and benches at second hand shops and the dump shop, even work benches at Bunnings. Go to the markets and get yourself a couple of sturdy, good sized cutting boards in stone or wood to use to do your prep on. The advantage of freestanding units is that you can build/install them yourself, arrange them how you like, re-arrange them if they aren't working for you how they are and repurpose them later,. Think about how you cook, and pare everything down to the bare minimum to save on storage/space. I lived for years with a kitchen in a small house that had an old gas stove, one small sink with a draining board, one bench about 1.2m long that had glass doored pass through overbench cupboards that I contually whacked my head on for the first three months when prepping food, and an old pine cupboard that was both pantry and crockery/cutlery storage. We also had a small fridge and microwave. I raised 2 teenagers with that kitchen. You adapt to what you have, especially if you have the goal of your dream kitchen shining in the future! Also, living with a basic kitchen really helps to clarify what you really want in a kitchen. Oh, and would a front loader washing machine fit in the space next to the bath, be the door in the bathroom? You really don't want a washing machine in a space that hasn't been properly waterproofed. If not, maybe consider a temporary outside laundry?