Open plan kitchen - is island unit too big for space?

[BugEyedBeans]

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Do give me your opinions! Especially those with experience of living open plan.
The pictures are lovely, but there isnt much space left for a table as the island unit is so big.
And open plan living - noisy washing machines, cooking smells etc - What do you think?

Room sizes are pretty typical for the 30s semis round here. With these sorts of houses I think a 'broken plan' works a bit better so that you can divide up the space again should you wish. You could reinstate part or all of the wall between kitchen and diner (and fit in a utility too).
It's very easy to add stud walls

I also love an island, the bigger the better, but this one doesn't work. The reason being is it has its sink in it, so of course it can't easily be used for dining if you have guests, no one wants to sit round the dirty dishes,

So if the sink could be removed and moved elsewhere, and it was just an island you used it as a dining table it would work. But the sink ruins it basically.

I’ve had a big kitchen (sofas etc one side, kitchen the other) with an island and the same but with a table. I MUCH prefer the table. It’s comfier, more sociable, easier to eat at (on the island dh and I sat each end with the children down the side) - passing the ketchup to one and other involved a sort of chain gang passing from person to person or a western style barman slide from one end to the other which never really worked as it was wooden and not slippy!

Having said that, you could remedy the kitchen problem without too much drama but would also lose quite a lot of storage space.

I’d have the Cuprinol out 5 mins after we moved in though, that blue fence was certainly a bold choice! Love the garden blackboard though.

Just looked again at the photo and you can’t even sit either end of the island, you have to sit in a row all facing the same direction, it would be like being in the window of Costa. Bloomin’ kitchen designers. Some of them are geniuses, others seem to not have an inkling about practicalities.

Yes, it is too big. I agree with a pp in that there should be a table there and a sitting area at the garden end. The bedrooms are small, and if I'd been spending all that money on an extension I would have put in a downstairs loo - more useful than an in your face island.

It is quite big but islands can be taken out / replaced.

I have an island and we use this as our primary place of eating. Our island seats five people.

We also have a dining table and use this maybe less than 5 times per year.