We've recently purchased a house and are looking to renovate. It's a 60's weatherboard house (wood frame on brick piers) that has had an extension that has added the Master Bedroom + En-suite, Family Room, and Laundry + Toilet to the rear of the house. The rear of the house faces West.

The plan is a fairly major renovation including updates to both bathrooms and the original kitchen. However, we are mainly struggling to work out how to arrange the kitchen, dining and family rooms together. We want to remove the wall between the existing Dining and Kitchen and open it up to the Family Room, but we feel like the existing Kitchen and Dining space (comb. 5.7m W x 3.9m D) isn't wide enough to allow for both with enough room for general access to the Family room space.

One idea we had, pictured below, was to move the Dining space completely, placing it in the front Lounge, connected to the Kitchen via either framed walkway or bi-fold doors. This gives us a nice sized kitchen, but our worry with this arrangement is the dining space becoming too disconnected from the Kitchen and also crowding the area by the Front Entry.

We would really appreciate any thoughts and ideas about how we might be able to arrange these spaces.

(Windows highlighted in blue, all other portals are doors or framed walkways)

(Existing Floor Plan)

(Proposed layout)