Show me your kitchen diner lounges!

[Freshair1]

Please!! I've developed a sore thumb from endlessly swiping! I've posted before with a floorplan and am seriously stuck on what to do with my ground floor. Two pics uploaded to show main area. There's a lounge round the corner. People have said to bash the wall down but I really don't want a huge 6m by 7m empty open plan box.

I would take the wall down and zone it with an island or breakfast bar.

Nooo! Definitely keep the separate smaller sitting room. When your kids are a bit older you’ll be so happy you did so you don’t have to listen to their endless shit tv/ YouTube.

mine is L- shaped so not v helpful but I love having sofas in the kitchen but also having a totally separate sitting room as well.

I viewed a house recently that knocked down the wall but had wooden bifold doors which worked a treat. They ended up with the study at the top end, then bifold doors, then the lounge, then the dining room, then the sitting room at the bottom end. I liked having the dining room between the two "living" areas.

Definitely keep a separate lounge. I would probably put the kitchen with an island where the proposed living room is, put the table in the proposed kitchen, and sofa area where you have your table.

Can you remove the wall between the proposed living room a kitchen? I would also lose the door into the proposed kitchen if you switch things round, and just have a door into the kitchen (where the proposed living room door is).

Can you remove the wall between the living room and the kitchen? There seems to be a lot of wasted space there.

But yeah definitely keep the separate lounge!

I've read this twice and still don't get it. To pp, I really don't want a fully open plan space. Literally looking for any visual ideas of a kitchen diner space. The lounge round the corner isn't separate. Hope the extra pic makes sense.

The space I'm mulling over is the bit at the bottom, NOT the separate lounge at the top.

Keep the lounge. I have a similar set up. Having the two sitting rooms is great.

Knock that little bit of wall down and replace it with open shelving that'll act as a divide while making the kitchen feel like like a corridor.

It'll try and hunt down a photo

Like this

I think people think you are knocking all the walls through.
So you're keeping the separate living room.
What is opposite the cooker? An island?
I'd keep all walls but scrap the island and have a breakfast bar coming up from the end of work too by the sink.
The rest looks ideal.

Read the OP! She’s not asking about knocking through to the separate living room, she’s asking about the layout of the bit I’ve outlined in green.

OP - several responses saying to take out the bit I’ve marked as blue zig zag.

Cross post @House4DS 😁

I think the kitchen is abit awkward as is with lots of wasted space - id knock the wall and rethink kitchen to make better use of the space

I would swap the kitchen and sitting areas. Possibly open the wall up in the middle even partially. Definitely keep separate sitting room maybe even make bigger

This! But I don't want to knock the bit of wall down. I've seen open plan squares and i don't like it, would prefer cosy.

The kitchen has to stay on the right side.

My thinking is this sort of thing with dining table where the French doors are.

I don't want to remove that bit, preferably.

so don't knock it down then? But from
my perspective it's making the kitchen feel cosy not the living area

could you run the units right to the entrance and put in one of those hidden doors which looks like a kitchen tall cupboard but actually opens into pantry?

I don't think the space you've got is wide enough to get away with this. You'd struggle with opening doors on cupboards and appliances.

I remember this one.

I still think that if the wall stays it would be easier to swap the dining and kitchen areas

Have a run of kitchen units with the oven etc on the back wall (green) and a massive island. You could extend the wall a little (blue) so the end is tucked behind it.

Then dining where you have kitchen in the plan, possibly as a corner bench seat? Purple

If you want the living space more cosy orientate the sofas the other way so back is to kitchen area.

or block up entrance to the living room part so sofas can be moved more into that corner - u could perhaps then take the wall back abit but not fully allowing you abit more room for your preferred layout and less of an unused corridor feeel?

I think your kitchen area is quite small in comparison to the big space you have.

I would put the kitchen in an L shape against the left and rear wall where your sofas are at the mo. Or swap kitchen and dining areas.

but you’ve said the kitchen can’t move, so you are left with a small kitchen. Where is your fridge going? How many cupboards will you be able to fit in?

So this basically the layout I wanted for my house !!!!

I think it flows so nicely no way would I remove the wall!!!!
I would put pocket doors (or crittal) where @Calmdown14 has marked in blue of your floor plan so you can have the option of a separate kitchen dinner and cosy evening living room or open it up.

I like the idea of swapping kitchen and dining area too... could be expensive if you need to move gas and water pipes...