Serving hatch, am I mad?

[9millioncansofbeans]

Hello
I (hopefully) move house soon. This is my downstairs layout. I don’t fancy one big open place space, I just prefer being able to close rooms off.

I am thinking of putting my dining table in the living room “nook” which is a shared wall with the kitchen and I really like the idea of putting in a serving hatch. The kitchen will need replacing at some point once I’ve moved in and saved a little. Would I be mad?

Any better suggestions?

I like that idea, think it could be lovely.

I’m a serving hatch fan.
Saves carrying food through your hall, and it will let a bit of light into the back of your lounge.

I used to have one. I enjoyed shouting thought it very much.

I would lose the hatch, personally I find them very dated. Put your table there though.

I love a serving hatch; I think they’ve lost popularity but I lived in a house with one and it was great and saved a lot of stains from food being dropped as it was carried through.

I have a serving hatch in my ancient kitchen, use it all the time! It’s so useful when all the dinners are ready to pass them through to someone on the other side instead of walking out of the kitchen, down the hallway and into the front room and back again multiple times.

Had one in a student house. It was brilliant. Brews passed directly from kitchen to sofa! Plus we used to compete to see who could climb through it fastest. Excellent fun!

I love them and am now thinking how we can add one to our house 😄

It will be useful and you will love having it. It's also a very easy thing to undo in the future if you or a future owner wanted to. No brainier.

Do it OP. Start thinking of hilarious ways you can suddenly appear and interrupt conversations with precision comic timing.

Crrent house has one. It's brilliant. Passing stuff through. Keeping an eye on kids while cooking. Talking to people. Shame they've gone out of fashion.

I'd bloody love one.

But I'd also love a Teasmaid so may not be totally on trend.

If your doing a serving hatch may a suggest a big one. I used to have a little one and it was ok but if it had been bigger I would of preferred it personally.

I rented an old house with one for a few months and loved it. I'd have one again in a heartbeat.

Wow! I was convinced everyone would say “no way”. Unless Lockdown has made us all mad

I was thinking of having it as large as possible and either open or with Wooden shutters like this

I would take out the whole wall above worktop level. But I do like the look of the shutters you put up to give you the option of closing off kitchen mess!

I’d forgotten all about it, but my grandparents had a serving hatch. I used to think it was fantastic when we went. Used to save having to make so many journeys When laying the table. Some might think they are dated, but I think they are a really good idea! And would increase the light in that space. I can’t think of any negatives except that if you had guests, they’d be able to see any mess in the kitchen while they were in the dining area, but then you could shut the hatch, so they couldnt see anyway so actually o negatives at all.

I was also thinking of wooden shutters. That picture is fab, do that!

Looks brilliant OP. I don’t have a serving hatch because I have a kitchen/diner, but have stayed in a few holiday places with large ones like you’ve shown but with no shutters, and they were great. Shutters would be even better.

However I’m old enough to remember them the first time round and I care not a jot for fashion, so...

We have a serving hatch, when we initially viewed the house our immediate thought was that will go, when we change the kitchen. When we did change the kitchen and the designer said what about the serving hatch is that to go? We both looked at him like he was mad, we found the serving hatch so useful. 17 years on we still have the serving hatch!

I know someone with a large serving hatch and they've made it into a small breakfast bar with stools the other side. It's nice to sit and chat when someone is in the kitchen and also another surface for serving bowls etc when eating a big meal.

It wouldn't be my preference as I like open plan but it's a good compromise and works better than I thought it would.

I think that's a really good solution! You'll have the ability to shutter it off to keep your reception room cozy but open it up when you want to talk to people and also you keep the wall space to put kitchen units on.

Looks great with shutters and love the breakfast bar idea!

We have a serving hatch between our kitchen and living room/diner in our flat. We absolutely love it, can talk to someone in the other room, can watch see the TV through it while chopping veg.. would never get rid of it!

Definitely get a hatch! Ours saves me about a thousand steps per day, I love it.

The ability to close it with a door / shutters is a must for me, too. Ours was originally open and in the winter we lost loads of heat from the lounge (our kitchen is cold). It made the lounge noticeably warmer when we fitted doors. Plus you then have the option of closing the kitchen off to stop cooking smells / steam / washing machine noise / DH's shit music from seeping through into the lounge.