If you solicit advice from a USA website we need the floorplan in feet and inches, also which walls are loadbearing.

Sorry, chiflipper, I had thought this was an international website, am I in a US specific section?

I have updated the floor plan below, hopefully that helps!

From memory, all walls surrounding the kitchen are load-bearing, but as mentioned, we're happy to support with beams and pillars

Everyone can use this site but, most advice will be given by USA residents with American aesthetics (hence our struggle with UK posters; metric measurements & SO many doors). Here's the AU site www.houzz.com.au Good luck.

IMO just change the measurements to inches and feet for US help I am Canadian no issue with metric What I do see is a huge amount of relocating areas which becomes a huge issue money wise .To get what you want would IMO require gutting the house and staring over with the shell A ton of plumbing , I am not sure if there is the aboility to deal with plumbing from under the house .For me the whole North wall needs to be the kitchen dr and lounge or a t least kitchen and lounge which as I mentioned requires the whole house to be redone.

Thanks Patricia,

The plumbing is relatively easily accessible under the house, and my partner can do most the work himself which hopefully will help with the budget, but agreed, it does need quite the re-work.

We've played around and drawn something like the below which might work? Please take the drawing with a grain of salt, I am not good at the program so some doors should be cavity, walls don't completely align, but hopefully the essence is captured! (the room behind the kitchen is a laundry)