Future Home Floor Plan

I'm holding off on sharing photographs of our soon-to-be home (you know, until the deal is done). But I thought I’d give you a sense of what we’re gonna be working with by drawing this rough floor plan (I know, I'm no artist, but you get the idea):

I'm so thankful that we found this house. The inside of the house is far from perfect, and admittedly a tad smaller than I had targeted, but when it comes to the important things (good school, great location, fenced yard for daughter & future dog, within our budget, etc) it's frankly better than I expected. 

Here's the Before We Move-In Plan:

• renovate bathrooms & redo all hot water pipes throughout the house (hugely annoying expense but the water pressure is so bad, so this is absolutely necessary)
• gut the kitchen & remove wall separating the kitchen from the dining room 
• create a nice casual living room with a huge new sectional sofa 
• add an office to the modestly sized basement family room 
• paint everything inside/out
• refinish the hardwood floors? floors are currently covered with carpet, so won't know what the condition is until we tear it all out. hopefully they are in decent shape that I can skip this and use funds towards buying all new appliances.

I would definitely NOT recommend doing any major work (like knocking down walls, fully gutting and renovating the bathrooms, and blowing out the kitchen, etc) without living there a little while...but...I don't really have a choice as the kitchen and bathrooms are in such disrepair, they just can't wait.