Knocking though from kitchen to dining room but not entire wall. Will this look right?

[ApolloandDaphne]

We are planning a new kitchen and I want to knock through to the dining room to give a brighter airier feel to the rooms. There is a soils pipe that comes down which needs factored in so we can only take down some of the wall. I can't find any images to see what others have done. Will this look okay do you think? The size of the opening will roughly be equivalent to three units and a range cooker.

So about 3m? How much wall are you leaving? Will the opening be central on the wall?

We have to leave probably one intis worth on one side and one and a half on the other. On the kitchen side there will still be some sort of units. On the dining room side there is a tall radiator on the bigger part. It won't be central but I don't think that will be an issue. Basically we have to work with what we have.

It will have a slightly different feel to a full open plan but you can improve the cohesion with decoration and furniture style etc. as you say, if you don’t have any choice you just need to work with it but I think you can make it look good.

We ended up doing something similar, albeit not by choice.

We took the wall down between the kitchen and dining room but it turned out once the work had started the wall was a partially supporting wall 😬. We ended up having to get a structural engineer out who calculated how much of the wall needed to remain. It meant the island we'd planned to put into the kitchen turned into a peninsula.

I actually really like it as it's given us a "nook" where we have some seats which now feels like a little separate area and we also have more countertop as a result. The only downside is we can't see the TV from those seats.

The alternative would have been putting a beam in which would have cost thousands and we'd have been without a kitchen for months .

I think it'll work fine. 3 meters is a decent opening..

Yes it will look absolutely fine. We have a bit of a wonky opening as the dining room was a later extension so is wider than the kitchen, and I actually prefer it, I think it adds character. And it’s a 100% better than having two completely separate rooms.

Thanks @Logoplanter. We had a builder out and it's not load bearing so that's fine. We will definitely have room for an island and there won't be a TV in there so all good.

We have similar and I love it. All the benefits of a kitchen diner but still kind of like two separate rooms.

That's what i an hoping for.

I think it will be fine, we have an opening with an rsj in the ceiling and foot or more either side. The kitchen designers will have a good idea of what will work.
our dining area curtain is against one side and we built in a floor to ceiling bookcase on the other side.

We did that and tge extra corners in the kitchen bit were useful for extra appliances and cupboards.

Our kitchen and dining room are semi open plan - going from the external wall at the back there's a 5' opening between the two spaces, then a chimney breast and a recess the other side with storage.

The opening was already in situ when we purchased the house and date from when it was last renovated in 1965.

There was no way we'd remove the chimney breast to open it up further as this is about the only original feature remaining in the Georgian property! But actually it works really well as it feels open/sociable, yet there's also a bit of separation from the business end of the kitchen when you're sitting at the table eating 😉