Kitchen layout

[ireneadler101]

Hi all,

Work has just started on our new kitchen (at demolition stage at the moment).

We're having second thoughts about the layout and wanted to canvas opinions. Plan attached (ignore the colours!).

As drawn at the moment, the plan is to knock through from our sitting room into the new kitchen, which will take you into a small hallway back door kind of area, next to the downstairs loo. It then opens out into the main kitchen. The main drawback of this is that it means that our loo is very small, and our utility room will mostly be taken up with boiler, uf heating controls, water softener etc, with almost no room to dry clothes etc.

If we were to get rid of the opening into the living room, it would become a much more usable space, with room for a bigger loo, more space for boiler etc.

What do people think?

Yes I think I'd prefer it without that opening. Even if you get rid, that still leaves the living room with 3 single doors and a set of double doors. That is more than enough if you want it to feel like a living room, not a hallway. The downside is that it would mean the loo is a long way from the reception rooms. I'm not sure why you are putting the loo and utility on that side at all, but I assume there is a good reason to move it from the right.

Where it's marked pantry, I wouldn't actually use that area for food storage, right outside the loo, but it sounds like you're not planning that anyway.

I agree, I'd close that doorway up and go through the hall from sitting room to kitchen.

Firstly, I love that you have library. Secondly, yes I’d close that opening. Thirdly, I’d close the second door from the living room to the hallway; there are way too many doors in that room even without the one to the utility and you’re in danger of it feeling like a hotel lobby.

I looked at plans before reading your post, and immediately thought that door 10 (sitting room to pantry area)was a waste of space.
Also doors 6 and 9 both lead to hall, I'd lose one and keep the one closest to kitchen end of hall.

Yes seems like the way to go.

However, I wouldn't like the pantry being next to the toilet, despite the door.

I would move the door from main kitchen to pantry area up so that it's in line with outer back door.
Extend length of loo to have door on short wall. Narrow wide basin on long wall.
Have corridor to blocked up sitting room door 10 as long walk in pantry with shallow floor to ceiling shelves along long wall , and deep shelces along back short wall

Oh and door to utility, swap for sliding door on outside . Not a pocket door.
It will give you more room inside the utility, you could have drying racks on wall backing on to kitchen