Accessing other rooms from the kitchen

[BoysRule]

We are currently remodelling our house and looking at options for the kitchen. The current design is a kitchen diner at the back of the house with a hall running in front of it to access the study and the playroom.

Having spoken to a kitchen designer today she has suggested we incorporate the hall into the kitchen diner to give us a bigger space - allowing for an island and more cooking room. However, this would mean you could only access the study and playroom from the diner end of the kitchen.

Would this annoy you? Does anyone currently have this set up and does it work? I am thinking if we have people over for dinner and the Dcs are in the playroom they would have to come through to access the rest of the house - toilet, upstairs etc.

I wouldnt fancy it, children running through the kitchen unsupervised / getting under your feet / burning. Depends how old and how obedient they are of course though.

Having a dining room accessed via a kitchen is fine, but two other rooms as well, I wouldn't be keen. Is there another option you haven't thought of that would you give you more kitchen space but allow the playroom and study to be accessed from a reconfigured hall instead? Can you post a sketch of the floorplan perhaps?