7 x 4.5m Kitchen Diner - How to lay out?

[AngryFeet]

We are planning an extension on our bungalow and the finished room will be approx this size. There will be a door in each corner at the top left and right of the room and the other end is by the garden so ideally would have a bifold door or double doors although it could just have windows and the doors to garden could be in lounge next door.

Any ideas how to lay it out? I would like it to be quite a social family room but am struggling to imagine what I could actually fit in it. Anyone have a kitchen this size?

The kitchen in this link is a similar size although a meter wider and half a meter shorter - it has the doors in the right place too. I would ideally like to get the table in the bit where the island is and have a sofa seating area at the end. Possible? Or squeezing too much in?

Sorry, I can't really advise but have you tried graph paper? You can then see whether the table (don't forget the chairs) sofa & units will fit.
I was advised 1.5m space around units.
I would be tempted to have the table at the end though.

I'm not confident I've got your layout fixed in my head...you've got two (internal) doors on one of the 4.5m walls? And the opposite 4.5m wall is where you want the bifold door? Or would that be on the 7m wall?

To be honest, I don't love that kitchen island in the link. I think it makes a generous kitchen look a bit cramped, and putting the table there would be worse. If you want kitchen and table to be at the same end, then I think you should only have units one side or the other, which should leave room for people to pull chairs out and lounge comfortably. I do like how the kitchen units on the door end are recessed into an alcove, so he fronts are flush with the doors. It makes it look a lot more streamlined, and I would seriously consider shifting the doors 60cm into the room to achieve the same effect.

If the bifold doors are on the long wall, I'd probably have a long run of units down the opposite wall, and table would be pretty central, in front of the bifolds. Sofa would go on the short wall opposite the internal doors. I might continue base units all the way down to this point, but not wall units.

If the bifold doors are on the short wall, I'd separate cooking from living spaces. Kitchen would be more like in the link (minus the island). Sofa would be against the bifold-door end of the long wall, and table would take up the rest of that end, again in front of the bifold doors.

I'm not sure I can fully visualise your layout but my kitchen is a similar size and I'd find it difficult to fit a sofa in as well as the kitchen and table (an 8 seater one) without it being cramped.

I'd suggest using the free ikea kitchen planner as this will give you a vague idea of how things will look even if you don't use their products.

Put it all into the Ikea kitchen planner - lets you add doors and windows and tables and chairs and you can see it in 3D.

Woops just seen previous poster already recommended.