Enlarging the hallway floor plan REH from 1921: Tips?

Dear forum,

we are currently planning a new heating system, during which we will probably install underfloor heating on the ground floor. We will therefore likely have to tear up the entire floor on the ground floor, insulate it (there is a basement vault underneath) and install the heating. This means: everything has to be cleared out and turned upside down.

We have been living in our end-terrace house from 1921 since 2017 and are very satisfied with it. Only the hallway area on the ground floor persistently bothers me. We are 4 people and often have visitors. The entrance area is too narrow and we will need more storage space for shoes and jackets in the future when the children are older. At the moment we manage, but when guests come, it becomes critical.

Attached you will find the floor plan, which the previous owner (civil engineer) once drew. I have noted some changes, for example we removed the wall with the door from the vestibule, changed the opening direction of the kitchen door, and swapped kitchen and living room. The horizontally running interior wall is load-bearing and including plaster is 15 cm thick. The vertically running wall in the floor plan is not load-bearing (the neighbors have completely removed it) and currently measures 10.5 cm including plaster. The thickness shown in the floor plan is therefore not correct. Unfortunately, there are no original floor plans anymore.

I could quite live with taking a little bit of space from the kitchen to enlarge the hallway. In the end, there should still be a closed wall to the kitchen, as we definitely do not want an open kitchen. We had that for the first 4 years here because the kitchen door was missing – never again! So the door could certainly be relocated freely.
Currently, we have a shoe cabinet in the hallway with a width of 89 cm and a hallway cabinet with jackets, bags, etc. with a width of 100 cm. A radiator with 49 cm width including thermostat would then be removed and make a little more space.

Where would you most likely make changes here?

Is this now the state after the exchange, so labeling = ACTUAL? But regardless, if you have swapped rooms, then you have probably also purchased some items permanently. So it would make sense to sketch out which pieces of furniture are where in the living room/kitchen, so that one can start thinking about wall niches or something like that.

If you currently have a kitchen and it should be put back in (or at least mostly reused), I think it would be good to know what it looks like/where it is and whether it should stay similar. I could also imagine moving the wall only partially to create a dressing niche, but whether that's somehow sensible definitely also depends on what's in the kitchen and what should stay.

So once "+1" for at least kitchen furniture and once mark where the cabinets currently stand in the hallway, that would be cool too :)

That is the current state, yes. I can gladly draw in a few things.

I hope you can see it, the floor plan is labeled quite "tight" overall. It is just a small house.



The kitchen is already very old. It is quite possible that it will be replaced. I would like to aim for an L-shaped kitchen unit. The kitchen block currently contains the freezer and refrigerator as well as storage for supplies. However, we would prefer to have extra-high wall cabinets above the kitchen unit to create more storage space there. And what is currently in the block would then be placed in the short leg of the L or something like that. A friend of mine is a kitchen planner, he will make it look nice for us.

If you really need space (which I personally don't think), then build a nice niche directly to the right after the entrance (where the table is now).