bigger kitchen vs bigger living design dilema
Hey wonderful members,
my first post on houzz is a classic dilema of kitchen vs living.
I am designing a house and got dilemma of big kitchen with small living or small kitchen with bigger living. I know it can get bit subjective depending on lifestyle/personal preference but still interested in thoughts.
option 1: (wife's preference) bigger kitchen having walk in pantry but smaller family/living. also north west orientation not getting used.
option 1a:
In option 1, will having TV where current storage is be a better option? that could make family bit bigger as walkway will get used as space between TV and sofa
option2 (my preference): smaller kitchen but nice and bigger living/family
meals will have advantage of north west side sun and complete west wall can be opened up with stacker doors/
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3 years agoThe kitchen can have access to the courtyard. And the pantry will stop the hot west sun coming into the kitchen.
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3 years agoI agree with dreamer, I think it is preferable to have more windows in the living area rather than in the kitchen. Indeed, the south wall without windows could be used for a series of tall units, which would assure a good storage capacity.
The issue with the temperature on the south side can be probably attenuated by using some insulating material in the wall and by having the joinery built according to the Italian rules (the back of the cabinet must be slightly recessed, to create a gap which increases the isolation) or installing them a few mm recessed from the wall.
Also, being a kitchen & living, I would suggest to integrate the style between the two areas by using similar finishing / colours
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3 years agoHi guys, got another option post brainstorming. This effectively puts northern light in living area and also keeps northern light in kitchen. plus an added bonus of deck area (which could be covered in summers). kitchen can have serving window to outdoor deck area as well.
unsure on where to put tv though and should i keep west part of living also as retractable doors or just to the deck side.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago@Kate, here is my attempt on redoing the kitchen layout. made it bit larger to give it nice balance. Kitchen island is now more balanced. Outside deck in NW will be 2100X3600.
living + dinning will be now 8400 X 4400. Is that sufficient?
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3 years agoHi Rahul, looking great, . Personally, and this is for me not necessarily you as we all cook differently, I would remove the bench with the sink entirely and adding more storage in the pantry, shifting everything up. You could then have a sliding door to outside.. then move fridge to next to the new door so easy access from outside and from living for drinks. Sink next then wall oven on the side wall, Stove on the wall that has pantry behind.. try and keep the making cooking cleaning and fridge reasonably close,
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3 years ago@kiwimills, plan to reduce bench to 1200 by 1500 (leave 300 for the stools). also plan to leave 300 as the overhang. hope thats comfortable for two people. If want to squeeze third person (either towards sink side) then will need to make it sliding benchtop (1200 X 900) that slides out to 1200 X 1500). Not sure if that is going to cost too much.
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago@Kate, will loose lot of space if I remove the sink bench. that wall (NW) will get sun so plan to use that for keeping herbs next to sink and also the bifold window doors to server outside.
having fridge at the NW end will make it accessible but also exposed to sunlight.
To increase pantry storage, I plan to add 300 mm of open shelves on opposite wall of fridge/W/o.
Just did calc, pantry would be 1800 (600 bench, 900 walkway, 300 open shelve). hope that is enough storage :). indicated in red rectangle
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