If you have a sitting area in your kitchen …

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Please tell me the dimensions of the room.

I desperately want to extend and create a kitchen diner the full width of the house and I’m trying to work out if we can create a kitchen/dining/sitting area. We’d still have a separate lounge too though.

It would really depend on where your services (drainage, water pipes, gas) are in the room and so what layout of kitchen/dining/sitting you could have. Draw it out on paper, to scale, with the measurements of your kitchen cabinets or sitting furniture. Alternatively there are online software where you can design a room and add to-scale furniture and move it around in different configurations.

L shaped. 7m by 6m so the dining table is in one L bit, the sofas in the other and the kitchen is in the hinge.

I like dining tables attached to islands. I prefer lounge seating slightly away from the kitchen. The ease of moving food from kitchen to dining is much easier if it’s nearby and not furthest away from the kitchen. Ditto dirty plates. Do lighting so it can be zoned too.

I don’t know if this would work?

Mine is 11 x 4.5m. Kitchen in middle, dining at garden end, sitting area at front of house. Extends front to back.

I think for it to work we’d need to live without an island

@Logslogs ours would be half the length which is making me think it’s maybe just not a possibility

Ours is about 5.8 x 4.5 from memory and we have a small sofa at one end (135 cm wide from Laura Ashley - it was the smallest I could find) and then a round table in the middle - it extends so we had 8 round it at Xmas.
I was thinking of getting 2 x chairs instead of the sofa because I was worried it would be cramped but it works well. We don’t use it as our main living space though. Plenty of flats have a kitchen/ diner/ living room about 6m long.
I looked round lots of new build show homes when I was designing mine to see how they fitted it in.

www.dwh.co.uk/new-homes/dev000336-hunters-wood/plot-349-h7890349/
david wilson had lots of living/dining kitchens, this house style is 5.45m x 3.15m and it has a sofa in it. From looking at lots of floor plans it is about where the doors are positioned because you need to be able to use both ends of the room and really need the door opening into the dining bit in the middle.

Ours is a fraction over 5 metres square. It fits a kitchen, with a smallish island, a dining area, with a decent sized table and a small sofa. It's not a sitting area as such, just a two seat sofa and a little shelf to put a drink down on, but it's enough to make the kitchen a much more sociable space.

We considered a different floor plan which would have given us more of a sitting areawhere part of the utility room is. We decided this would actually be less good for what we wanted, which was a place for someone to sit in the kitchen and chat with the cook.

Thanks for the link I’ll take a look. You’re right about the door placement being the most important thing I think. Hopefully ours will be ok.

@CasperGutman your layout looks great and similar sized space just slightly different shape. Wish we could have a utility too but it’ll be one or the other I think!

Hopeful bump

Very similar to mine, I love it, I said when we moved .I wanted a Kitchen we could eat in. It’s a lovely open room that overlooks our garden. We have a separate lounge also to use in the evenings.

Roughly 7.3m x 3.3m. I have a 2 seater sofa and an arm chair as well as a dining table.

Have you thought about turning your dining table round the other way? Mine is extendable so I can seat more people if I need to using the length of the room.

What about a round dining table, to seat however many live in the house, but extendable so you can extend it if you need more table space? A round table will feel less obtrusive, especially with your door placement.

Yes perhaps round or the table rotated would work better actually.

We haven’t got this space yet so I really am finding it hard to visualise it!

I'd consider an oval table, or at any rate, one with rounded corners. It makes a big difference if you have to get round it. And chairs that don't have very high backs and tuck right in under the table when not in use. In our old kitchen we had a circular one that was great for navigating round- when we (rarely) needed to seat more than 4, or I wanted more space for doing a lot of baking, it split across the middle and we could put a rectangular section in to make it a sort-of-oval.