To buy a new build with a lounge diner?

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Is this horribly outdated in the age of open plan/kitchen diners?

Will I have issues selling it on in years to come?

I've got an open plan kitchen diner family area now and quite like the idea of separating out the kitchen as the noise of the washing machine, dishwasher etc etc really bugs me.

My last house had a lounge diner and I hated it, the kitchen was small as a consequence. I ended up getting rid of the table and then the vacant space just became an empty dumping ground because it didn't lend itself to anything else (it was a sort of L-shaped room). I have a kitchen diner now and love it.

Oh I hate kitchen diners. I much prefer a lounge diner for entertaining. I wouldn't buy a house without one.

Saying that the best option for me is a table in the kitchen for breakfast/homework AND a dining table in the living room for entertaining AND a snug for watching TV which you can have a bit messier than the entertaining space. ((Dreams))

Well very split opinions here. People either seem to love them or hate them!

I'm pretty sold on the idea now I think, such a change to what I have now, and I like the idea of potentially extending in the future to give an additional dining space if needed. It would pretty much suit my needs for the near future anyway. Thanks all.

more that kind of set up I think!

I think it does depend on how much entertaining you do. Much better to have a seperate kitchen where you can close the door on the mess and smells for formal dining. But for family life maybe kitchen diner is better?

Depends on the size of the room. Our current house has a sitting / dining room by as it’s the only living space I find it irritating. Also I’d prefer to eat in a room without the tv in it so there is that.

My neighbours knocked their lounge wall to have an entirely open plan downstairs and hate it. They want to put the wall back up because it's just too open plan.

If never buy a house that didn't have a separate lounge.

&cresseybessey

What on earth makes you think the bin would be in the living room

I hate a lounge diner. We like cooking and I’d find it depressing to be stuck in a small kitchen alone because the leisure/dining/seating space is elsewhere. Those new builds are usually accompanied with small unsociable kitchens so it would be a no from me. I’d be down with all open plan though, no issue with the dining and seating space together so I’d buy your future house if I could knock down a wall or two

A lot of younger couples, without children, seem to like them. My DD (32) wants to knock her house through and her friends have the same POV. It's to do with entertaining whilst you cook.

I like separate rooms and how do you Bitch, in private whilst being lumbered with relatives at Christmas? I'd be subjecting my Grandchildren to far too much swearing .

It's the placement of the toilet that is crucial.

We are in a new build estate. There are two designs of house - small kitchen with big lounge diner and smallish living room with big kitchen diner. We have the kitchen diner. All my neighbours in the lounge-diner design moan about it and say that it's a pain because in that style of house the kitchen is really quite small and far (ish) away from the lounge so food has to be carried down the hall to eat. It's not sociable if guests are round and somebody is cooking and you can't really have carpet in your living room due to potential spills.

I wouldn't have bought that design and would never want a lounge diner personally.

So this is the floor plan for downstairs. Am I right in thinking it's big enough to put a small table/breakfast bar in the kitchen as well as kind of section off the lounge using furniture to create an eating zone? I'm thinking of Karndean type flooring so spills shouldn't be an issues

I'm new to this, this'll be the first house for me and DCs post divorce so I feel like I'm blundering in the dark really

almost that's the same floor plan as one we looked at last year and there was room in the one we looked at for a table with six chairs quite comfortably.

Oops hit post too soon.

Should also have put that there was no room for any kind of kitchen seating arrangement.

Ah that's helpful, SluttyButty. It's so hard when it's off plan.

Wouldn’t be for me. But don’t worry about resale unless you’re in and out in just a handful of years. Anything 5yrs + i day go for what works for your family and ignore future buyers.

I prefer a lounge diner in addition to seperate living and sitting rooms.

We have one. It's ok-you can sit in the kitchen too but we eat meals in the lounge/diner. Personally I would prefer a separate living room and dining room but I don't care about having the ubiquitous massive kitchen/diner as I hate people bugging me when I cook. Being alone in the kitchen? Bliss!

Having lived the apparent 'kitchen-diner-family area' dream, I'm not keen to relive it!

If that wall between the kitchen and dining area isn't load bearing, you could quite easily rejig the layout in the future if it turns out not to work for you.