Kitchen diner, or kitchen, living diner?
We moved in last December to an older (late 1800s) house at it’s core, that was extended about 30 yrs ago.
In terms of downstairs we mainly use the kitchen and lounge with the dining room becoming a bit of a corridor.
We can’t decide whether to knock through kitchen to living room for a kitchen, living dining space. OR, (since the lounge currently works well) it might make more sense to go the other way and knock the kitchen and dining room together.
We‘re trying to weigh up what would affect costs and hassle (?) between the 2 options, as well as what would work best for us.
The wall between the kitchen and dining room is the old exterior wall which would also involve removing a chimney.
The front of the house is West facing so the lounge and that end of the house faces south and gets very warm. Whereas the dining room is quite cool in comparison.
The floor plan as it is:
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Laura Thomas
3 years agoLaura Thomas
3 years agoThanks for your ideas Architecture Unknown Ltd. Hadn’t thought about swapping the kitchen and dining over love that idea.
I didn’t include that much detail in my initial post so the dimension of the 3 rooms are:
Dining Room = 3.3m x 2.9
Kitchen = 4m x 2.6
Lounge = 5.5m x 3.5m
The fireplace between the dining room and kitchen has been blocked up so, at the moment isn’t in use (And I think it’s been a while since it has).
The current window in the dining room is just 2ft up from the ground and although could be changed does fit in with the other windows in the wold part of the house :
So, that’s us and it’s one house. The dining room is just right of the porch.
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