The easiest change would be to close off the front living room and make it another bedroom. Have the door open into the hallway with the other bedroom. Leave the fireplace or box it out with drywall.

I'm not a pro and don't have any suggestions but do want to follow. You are correct that the plan doesn't flow that well.

Are some windows missing from the floor plans?There are none indicated in the master or basement bedrooms. Do you use both living rooms ( I’d guess the one off the kitchen could be called a family room )? Do you use the large basement room? If you create another bedroom in the basement it would also have to include a window. Do you know which walls are load bearing?

Here is a complete floor plan with windows included. We do use he basement living space. We do not use the second living space upstairs. We use the living space off the kitchen, I’m not happy with my kitchen size and layout though it’s terrible. There is no decent entrance to my kitchen it’s either obstructed by the fridge or the wall oven, it’s very boxed in. We do need egresses! I’m certain the red walls are load bearing as but the green wall I’m not sure it only makes logical since that it would be because it’s the only other median line through the house and is only 5 feet off of the red wall line. The roof line doesn’t change so I don’t think my load walls would change direction.

Red lines load bearing, green lines I think are load bearing.

Roof line for extra reference

Chispa- that would be an easy change but I feel like that’s a change you do for a quick fix. Something a house flipper would do for a quick buck. This is a stately style ranch home with good bones I don’t want to devalue it by giving it the wrong flow for a large family fix. Thanks for the input but we need something with some real solid forward thinking. Something that’s going to make this house better and not just put a bandaid on a problem.

What about converting the back living room to a bedroom? Assuming the top of your layout is north, how about the following. Put a doorway on the west wall of the front living room that opens into the bedroom hallway. Open up your kitchen by removing the peninsula and running cabinets along the north window wall, then along the new west wall that separates the kitchen from the new bedroom. That gives you room to do a much better layout in the kitchen, which other Houzz users can advise you on. Then remove the two short walls and the closet that divide the kitchen and dining room. I think that gives you room for good entrances to the kitchen and for a generous island--hard to say without dimensions.

I would turn part (maybe 1/2 to 2/3) of the closet and bath "east" of the kitchen into a pantry and mudroom, changing the laundry into a breakfast/dining room with a long trestle table and both chairs and a bench. Expand the usable kitchen into the larger opening labeled "kitchen." Make the dining room into your upstairs living room. Use the two upstairs living rooms for a couple of bedrooms, closets, a laundry (near where dirties are generated) and another bath. Close off the FP so when you sell, you can open it up and turn that bedroom back into a living room.

You have two living rooms and a dining room. The first options I see are:

1) turn the dining room into a bedroom, turn the living room next to the kitchen into a dining room.

2) Turn the living room not next to the kitchen into a bedroom.

3) You could turn both one living room and the dining room into bedroom, although you might have to redo your kitchen.