Putting a wall back up?

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The previous owners of our house took down the wall between the lounge and dining room and had a lounge diner, we are redoing our kitchen and making it a kitchen diner so we will be left with a lounge of 3.5x6.5m. I think we should put the wall back up and have a seperate living room and playroom with double doors between them. DP thinks we should leave it and just have a big family space - DC are 4 and nearly 1. What would you do?

A friend had a local carpenter build a divider between her kitchen and sitting room. He did a brilliant job, and she’s got a lot of extra storage space with shelves and drawers in the sitting room side and cupboards and a breakfast bar on the other side.

We are in the middle of building works and dividing a lounge off from the lounge/diner was the first thing we did. The original layout apparently didn't have a dividing wall, but did have a second doorway which was subsequently blocked (and we have reopened) if that makes sense... We are knocking out the back of the house and extending to make a big kitchen/living/dining space, but I had to have a separate living room!

We only have one child, but feel this gives us room options for him having friends over as he gets older, OR DH and I can have a grown up space with no toys!! While he's small the front room is a no go zone!

Sorry, to actually answer your question, dividing wall! You have the family kitchen diner so it will be good to have a separate space.

We currently have a through double lounge and separate kitchen diner. Planning to put back the wall between the two lounges and take down the wall between the back lounge and kitchen diner. So we get one big lounge/kitchen/diner and one smaller separate lounge. We will have double doors in the wall between.

I would not have just one big open plan space for the whole ground floor, if that's what your DP is suggesting. You will want somewhere to escape to or somewhere to put them to watch my little pony.

Reinstate the wall. You'll never be able to get away from cooking smells, noise or each other otherwise.