That kitchen angle is atrocious. Are you happy with the number of bedrooms and living spaces? Do you need to keep the garage as a garage? Do you plan to refurbish the full interior with new flooring etc?

Can you add measurements of all rooms please.? Is it a brick home with concrete slab and internal brick walls?

Even if you sell up, I would still reconfigure the kitchen space for a better sale price. Currently it is the worst use of the space. A simple suggestion for that area is below. Also Changing the access to bed 2 and straightening the wall. But, as always, a whole house approach would be best, and then do in stages. Sounds as though you like the area, so I would look at reconfiguring the home, and incorporate the garage as more space. Install a carport for vehicles if the council allows. It is wasted real estate currently. Unless you have a fancy car you need to protect. You could redo the kitchen area, then convert garage into a family room, with plenty of storage.

Another simple improvement

Your new floorplan should be done to suit all ages/stages in a home, so plan for that now and try to be able to do it in stages so as you can keep living in the house comfortably

Where is North and is the house on a concrete slab and walls brick

With the road to the East the garage on the Northern side,

Do you know which side your sewer pipe runs?

Are they connected to the sewer, they are on acreage and have bore water

The road and the boundary fence don’t indicate acreage but it would be good to know if there is somewhere else for a garage.

Ooops. Just read the last sentence. In that case we need a site plan. Much cheaper to extend new, or into the garage than have a redesign of existing house.

whatever it takes to get the best floorplan and works with the pool

@siriuskey and @bigreader

Upoaded plumbing plan

We are on mains and bore water with feed to grey water

It is a single story brick home on concrete slab

Garage is putting west and gets the brunt of the arfternoon sun

Plans to redo flooring as it is only and kids have trashed it - currently caprtet in rooms and hybrid in main areas and hallways - would do hybrid/or tile

We are on 3000m2

Graeme W, that’s good the garage door faces west, therefore you can have that as a solid wall with insulation, and create a good size window on the north side for winter sun, when creating a new family room.

Have just crossed posts showing it’s 3000sqm. Thank you Graeme W for that information. You have so much room to extend your home, if that is required.

first thoughts using estimated room sizes suggests an alternative floorplan using existing garage but there will be so many other ideas if you can post the plans showing readable dimensions and a site plan showing size and distance from all boundaries of the house and sheds, description of your local climate and your ultimate wish list ... something like this could be more comfortable and better than moving from an area that you love especially if you bought at a good price and alterations could be done in stages but renovating is never cheap but you can't make a realistic comparison without some real quotes for renovating, extensions and/or moving

oklouise, the poster has just posted more details. my understanding is the garage door faces west.

• We are on acreage so can extend on the north and west sides of the below image.
• The garage sites on the boundary and the road is on the East.
• OKL and myself read that the road was East.
• How many children do you have and how many bedrooms are required

if road is on the east then isn't garage facing east, alfresco west and laundry is on the north closer to boundary???

@oklouise

Yep, garage faces west....

Appreciate you posting the actual aspect Graeme that makes a difference to layouts and without room dimensions a basic idea follows

I forgot to add that the Kitchen family room can have a Raked ceiling following the current roof line

and this with the extended kitchen family

Here is a screen shot of the floor plan (link to a detailed PDF below it, hopefully you can work out the room sizes.

The rooms for us are small - and ideally would like to keep 4 bedrooms, but this may not be achievable without extendening trusses and increasing floor area via an extension.

Floor plan <---- click here to view PDF of floor plan if you cant see enough detail

Are you on the corner?

@bigreader no

looking at the dimension we can now see that some of the rooms are bigger than expected so the house could be dramatically improved without using the garage by installing a new kitchen, changes to the powder, laundry and beds 2 and 3 and removal of the dividing walls to create an open plan family dining area and maybe later use the original cramped laundry as a mudroom and extend for a new rumpus and generous new laundry utility room and i've added extra biw in bed 1 and more storage in the family room, laundry and bed 2

Further to my above floorplan you could push the master bed out under the eaves to give more space, roof lines show how this works

And then completely different, my first thought was to push the garage out to make more space for the laundry mudroom/storage but I'am not sure what the current set back is.

So the following moves the master and the 4th Bed could become a guest with bathroom/media room, lots of possibilities

Just looking at a version extending north mirrored wings, can see some earthworks, so this is option poll 4 for long term home max budget. Planning a 'home' is never easy, great options here already, go with your gut instinct, good luck!

Trying to keep and use current Bathrooms,/plumbing is important to save overall costs.

What is the allowed set back for the garage and what is it at, as mentioned it would be easy to add to that for more laundry space using current plumbing.