We are planning a 700sq ft addition to our ranch home. The area in yellow is the addition. Please bear in mind that this is only the very beginning stage of planning — and that this is my first foray into floor plan drawing, but it is drawn to scale (1 square = 1ft). My question is: should the area circled in red be a hallway? It’s currently a wall. Or would the floor plan be open enough to allow that space to remain closed off (walking through the kitchen to get to the addition)? Our issue is that we’d love to keep the area closed off and used as a utility room. I’m just not sure there’s enough “flow” from the front door to the addition if it is not opened up into a hallway.