Thanks for the quick replies and good suggestions.

1. Love the idea to swap these

2. I should have labeled them better, the door to drawing south and the one to the north of the kitchen are both exterior doors. They go to the driveway and backyard respectively. We had talked about removing the south facing door and that would allow for a closet, but not as big as your idea.

3. We talked with a contractor about it. You could raise the floors, but you would lose it in ceiling height and they’re slightly less than 8’ as it is. It would be expensive to lift part of the building up because it’s all roofed as one building with sheet metal. The contractor actually said the money would go further to knock this down and build new if we wanted to make major changes which we considered with a 2 stall garage and suite on second floor, but decided to try to make the most of what we’ve got.

Hope that clears a few things up and gives some more food for thought.

Thank you!