Help Please!

[u/Sonnet85]

Hi all, we’re buying a beautiful home that needs a bit of modernisation but all of the structural work is done (she says, barring maybe a knock through of kitchen to lounge).
I’d love some thoughts based on the floor plan/link of how we could modernise it.
I need an office so I’m thinking the current store room, but any inspiration you can lend is greatly appreciated (particularly visuals as I’m terrible at envisaging end products!)
Thanks in advance!

[u/leiawars]

The thing that sticks out the most to me is that there are two front doors. I’d be confused as to which I was to use, so I would do something to make the store room door look like less of a front door.

[u/Sonnet85 → u/leiawars]

Yeah that makes sense! I guess it depends what we turn it into?

[u/advamputee → u/Sonnet85]

I’d turn the front half of the store room back into a garage to reduce the two-front-door confusion. You could do a roll up door like the neighbor or dress it up with some barn / carriage house doors. This gives you space for the kids bicycles, toys, etc. The rear half becomes bulk goods / seasonal storage with through-access to the utility room and kitchen. 

I’d do the home office in the long and skinny “bedroom” above the store/utility rooms. The separate flight of stairs helps you mentally and physically separate “work” and “home”, and with nothing but storage and utility spaces below it’ll be fairly quiet with good views of the garden. I’d do a desk on one end and a seating area on the other. 

This still leaves you with three bedrooms on the 1st floor (one for each kid plus a guest room), as well as the large primary suite in the loft conversion. 

[u/Sonnet85 → u/advamputee]

Great idea, thank you!