Should we knock through between our living and dining rooms?

[fizzyelderflower]

We live in a fairly standard layout 30's house. At some point someone has opened up the kitchen to the dining room so we now have a really good size kitchen/diner.

We also have a nice front living room which is a nice grown up space. It all works most of the time except when we have people over. We have 3 dcs and if we have even a couple of adults either room seems really overcrowded. If we have a few friends it can feel really claustrophobic.

I think it would be a good idea to knock a large opening in the wall separating the two and have some nice concertina doors put in so we can have it open but also keep the cosy feel if we want.

Anyone done similar and love it or hate it? DH not convinced at all.

I definitely don't want one big room but like the idea of having a more open, flexible space so will keep thinking.

We won't knock the whole wall down, just have a double doors width which might give us the best of both worlds of two cosy rooms most of the time but more open plan when we need it.

Interestingly DH coming round to the idea just as I'm going off it!