Back of peninsula at entrance to family room
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Advice on moving entrance to family room?
Comments (9)Thanks for your feedback virgilcarter. I should have mentioned the house is already framed and drywalled it's too late to make a foot print change or move the wall entirely due to window placement (it is also a shear wall). My only option is to close up the wall entirely and move the entry to the hallway side (where the big chair is located). I would do this to give the Entertainment room more privacy and sound insulation but do you think a livingroom that is 15.5' X 17.5 is going to feel too small if I close the 7' opening that leads into the Entertainment room space? This change would mean we look at a wall (which I could hang art on or put a console table on) instead of an opening with barn door sliders into the Ent room. We are using barn door sliders on tracks to separate the spaces and I could use one of them on the hallway side instead. I sure wish I had consulted with people on this site before we began building!! Overall I think our layout is very good but there are a few things that I wish I had thought of and now it's mostly too late to make changes. Now that I have twins 18 months old I am realizing we will use the house differently than when we were designing it! SO should I close up the barn door entrance off the livingroom and move it to that central hallway adjacent to where the stairs to second floor are located? My contractor is pushing me to decide.....See MorePeninsula Open To Family Room?
Comments (7)Thanks for the photo and the suggestions. I will have to ask the kitchen cab guy how much money this will save me. Aside from $$, I think looks wise, fake cab doors in the color I want might not look that great anyway. I think the cab guy just wanted to load up my kitchen, there wasn't any wall space that wasn't covered with someting when he did the first layout...It looked like a cabinet showroom! hmm, maybe he isnt' the right kitchen guy for me!...See MoreWhat to put n the back side of the peninsula, facing the FR?
Comments (12)I don't have a great pic right now but we put false cabinet doors, that face our dining room, that match our kitchen cabients. This pic shows the dining room side, before we put the knobs on. It is on the back of a drawer stack that faces in to the kitchen. When you open the doors, I hung a cork board there and that's where we put all of our school fliers, calendar, etc. Next to that cabinet we have an actual functioning cabinet that opens in to the dining room and we put all our serving dishes in there. So we needed to match those doors....See MoreLooking for ideas to open up Entryway to Kitchen/family room area
Comments (13)damiarain: We use the nook just for group milling, and often flip the counter stools that live at the kitchen peninsula over to the counter on the pony wall... this works well for parties or TV viewing or casual just-us dinners... or laying out a buffet or appetizers. But I've always thought it was a waste of space... it's not a very big area though... not big enough for furniture other than stools. But the pony wall and the multiple entrances really break up the space. We were not planning on changing kitchen layout. It works well, just needs a serious cosmetic facelift... too beige & faux-Tuscan. I prefer contemporary and clean lines. Also the travertine floor tiles are super cold in the winter. So we'll install hardwood floors that match the rest of the 1st floor. I'm trying to talk my husband into painting the cabinetry (which we'll keep) but so far he loves the wood look. The bay windows are 22" from the ground on the inside. We can't extend the FR to include some of living room. These rooms are on opposite sides of the kitchen so not contiguous at all. Did you mean the nook area? The FR is sunken because of the dropped ceiling. so it's hard to integrate with / extend into anything else. The LR is a wonderful room in the front of the house with great light... somewhat of a large formal LR which is less practical these days but it's a very sweet space that looks out onto the view. We always try to move guests into that room but everyone congregates in the kitchen/nook area! Swapping the FR and DR is an interesting idea though I think the DR is too small for a FR... it's narrow, opens up to the LR and is dark. You couldn't watch TV in there, as no wall is far enough away for viewing... my husband LOVES his TV;) But it would likely make a really nice kitchen....See Moreineffablespace
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