ᐅ Living/Dining/Kitchen: How do you live or plan to live in these spaces?
Created on: 25 Aug 2014 15:01
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WildThing
Hello Forum,
I’m interested in how you currently live or how you have planned it in your new house. Are you following the trend of combining all three areas into one large space? Have you kept the rooms separate? (For example, with a sliding door.) Or have you only separated the living room from the rest?
I’m looking forward to your responses!
I’m interested in how you currently live or how you have planned it in your new house. Are you following the trend of combining all three areas into one large space? Have you kept the rooms separate? (For example, with a sliding door.) Or have you only separated the living room from the rest?
I’m looking forward to your responses!
Bauabenteurer schrieb:
... To keep the option open, I had to do without a kitchen island.... But why is that? You can also place the island in the center of the kitchen area instead of near the implicit boundary to the dining area. Even if it gets closed off later, you can still walk around it.
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DerBjoern26 Aug 2014 13:59We chose "a separate kitchen with a small dining area; living and dining rooms combined into one space".
Visually, an open-plan room looks more impressive, but we find it less practical for everyday life—especially now with a child. What bothers us most about open kitchens is the noise from cooking and tidying up. Since my wife likes to do everything herself, from making jam to preparing baby food, she uses the kitchen quite a lot. Now that both we and our friends have children, party nights and cooking together are mostly a thing of the past. At best, we grill together in the summer, or in winter, when we do meet, we usually order food.
Hosting habits, and especially how often you host, often change after having children—that’s something to keep in mind.
And even with a separate kitchen, you don’t have to give up a kitchen island or similar features. We have a long countertop run plus a kitchen island. The kitchen was simply planned to be a bit larger.
Visually, an open-plan room looks more impressive, but we find it less practical for everyday life—especially now with a child. What bothers us most about open kitchens is the noise from cooking and tidying up. Since my wife likes to do everything herself, from making jam to preparing baby food, she uses the kitchen quite a lot. Now that both we and our friends have children, party nights and cooking together are mostly a thing of the past. At best, we grill together in the summer, or in winter, when we do meet, we usually order food.
Hosting habits, and especially how often you host, often change after having children—that’s something to keep in mind.
And even with a separate kitchen, you don’t have to give up a kitchen island or similar features. We have a long countertop run plus a kitchen island. The kitchen was simply planned to be a bit larger.
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Bauabenteurer26 Aug 2014 14:02The floor plan didn’t allow for it; I could only have placed the island in the middle of the "opening."
Umbau-Susi26 Aug 2014 14:14We couldn’t decide either. One of us wanted a closed kitchen to hide mess and such, while the other preferred an open kitchen for better communication.
Our compromise:
A 1.50 m (5 feet) opening between the kitchen and dining room, and a glass sliding door with frosted glass and a print design that lets light through when closed but prevents a clear view.
When open, it becomes a decorative feature in the dining room, as it slides completely against the wall.
This solution satisfies both of us, and even (critical) guests like it. Our architect designed the whole thing.
Sylvia
Our compromise:
A 1.50 m (5 feet) opening between the kitchen and dining room, and a glass sliding door with frosted glass and a print design that lets light through when closed but prevents a clear view.
When open, it becomes a decorative feature in the dining room, as it slides completely against the wall.
This solution satisfies both of us, and even (critical) guests like it. Our architect designed the whole thing.
Sylvia
As I mentioned, ours is an open kitchen, but we never have a messy kitchen anyway. I’m generally a bit particular, so we always keep an eye on it. I can’t relax on the sofa in the evening if the kitchen looks bad. It was the same with the closed kitchen when we still lived in an apartment. And now, especially because we have a child and often have guests, we find it very comfortable this way.
ypg schrieb:
Elina’s concept is familiar to me: I once knew people whose main focus was more on computer games (two PCs side by side in the living room for gaming, the TV running in the background, and eating was also done alongside). That was not really my thing. Maybe that was us, although as typical computer nerd basement kids, we actually didn’t have acquaintances—unless they were named DarkRoxxor or Shadowkillah.
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