Kitchen plans

[aden3085]

We’re having the back of our house reconfigured to make a better family space/more modern kitchen. I’m looking for thoughts on the separation of current living room/new kitchen. Initially we thought doors so we had the option of opening it up but now thinking blocked off completely would look better and give us more kitchen space. Please share your thoughts and any ideas. Ignore the child like drawing 😂

I love the doors, we have them and it means you aren’t cut off from being in the kitchen.

I think the average home has about 8/10 cupboards - top and bottom - so you have plenty of room for ‘stuff’

Leave the doors!!

I would swap the dining room and snug and possibly knock though the wall between them. You will never use the dining room if it isn't next to the kitchen.

I love plans and reconfiguring layouts but I can’t relate your drawing to the original floor plan. Is it as an extension?
what is the middle small room on the new plan?

I also agree that you’re never going to use a dining room (other than Christmas) that is the opposite side of the house to kitchen.

id have the dining area, I wouldn’t have what looks like two sitting areas off the kitchen. Swap the dining space with one of them.

@MimiSunshine its the back half of the house upside down.

Another vote for moving the dining room so it's next to the kitchen as otherwise it will rarely be used. In your position @aden3085 I'd probably swap it with the snug (leaving the larger living room) and would knock through as suggested by @Geneticsbunny. Although if it were my house I'd forego the large living room and have the whole of that space as an eat-in kitchen.

We've taken the somewhat drastic step of moving our kitchen completely so that it's now next to the dining room. In that location we plan to use it daily.

Actually the kitchen and dining room are open to each other - we were considering glazed doors between but have decided against. Our living room is completely separate as this is our preference. Eventually there might be a snug/office too (other side of dining room) if we convert the garage.

I'd put dining table where your new kitchen is shown and combine existing kitchen and dining for a large kitchen with the chairs. Every day use will be here and dining table is near enough to use when needed

I would make the living room separate. If possible I would move the toilet more under the stairs and then ditch the cupboards and take a bit of hall to enlarge that middle room so more in line with the new kitchen and I would then have the whole back of the house as one big room as kitchen dining room with sofa, separate living room and then you have the study.

We have a peninsula separating the kitchen from the dining room. It gives more kitchen units but we still have that open feel.

Looking at your original plan, I would knock down the wall and create an open kitchen diner. We have double glazed doors between the living room and dining room. This gives a dual aspect, so more light and is lovely when we have visitors.

I love the doors, we have them and it means you aren’t cut off from being in the kitchen.

I think the average home has about 8/10 cupboards - top and bottom - so you have plenty of room for ‘stuff’

Leave the doors!!

Thank you

Looking at it again. Id make the kitchen and dining area into one area in the largest space which you have marked as kitchen / living area.

that will be the place people gravitate to in the house, it’ll be more sociable and you could keep the small space as a snug, sitting area off the kitchen. I’d put sliding doors or pocket doors there so you could close it off from the kitchen if you wanted to and it would provide flexibility in the future as it could be an office space / playroom etc.

id have a solid wall between that and what is currently marked as a dining room and have that as an entirely separate living room.

I would square off the small room by moving the WC and hall cupboard if you can and have a large kitchen diner across the whole back of the house. But this is a lot of structural work.
Alternatively if you don't want to move too many walls. I would make the dining room the kitchen and remove the wall to the small room / snug with the patio doors to access the garden and have the dining table in the lounge.
If you do decide to go with partition doors Ikea Skytta range are great value, we have just installed some.