Keep Separate Dining Room or Enlarge Kitchen?
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Comments (13)I am in a larger home, 1675 sq ft. It it that style of ranch where the garage is what you see when you drive up, and the front door is in an indentation next to the garage. The living room is in front, next to the front door, but the living room does not come out as far as the garage does. I have heard them called "snout houses" because of the way the two-car garage looks, sticking out past the rest of the house Like a pig's snout. Behind that garage, there is the stairway to our basement, then the eat-in kitchen, then the family room. The dining area is defined by a funky ceiling. Remember how in the late 70s, people lowered their kitchen ceilings and had recessed fluorescent lights behind plastic, so that the whole ceiling appeared to glow? Our kitchen ceiling has an oblong space like this, and the dining area has a square one. Along the way, someone took off the plastic and put in light fixtures, then put a wallpaper border print on the inside of the soffits. Now-a-days, people build these into very tall ceilings and call them tray ceilings and they add to the value of the house. Mine are so low that I can touch the soffits defining the ceilings without getting on tippy-toes. Other than the dropped ceiling, I love my kitchen with the dining area on the side. I have an antique waterfall-front little buffet, a kitchen table, and leather-cushioned chairs. None of the woods are the same color, but the pine table's wood tones can be found in the distressed finish of the chairs, and the darker colors on the chairs tie in with the quarter-sawn oak of the buffet. We can have the table set up to go north-south without the extra leaf, or east-west with it. When the table is north-south, the rolling island is between the sink and the table. When the table is east-west, the island sits on the edge of the 6 inch drop-off into the family room, below. The dining chandelier has a couple of hooks in the ceiling, so it can be centered over the table, depending on the orientation. We have the east-west configuration going now, it is nice because the table is right in the kitchen (and extends into the dining area) and it feels very homey. Country-kitchen style. The other configuration feels more modern, and I like having the island near the sink and fridge....See MoreHelp with floor plan - change keeping room to kitchen or dining?
Comments (15)I actually like the layouts. Friends of ours have a second home where from the front, it looks like yours - long porch with entrance to the house and the MBR set back with French doors to the porch on the left side. That part of the porch is hardly ever used, and when they're having guests and someone might use it, they just close the drapes to the MBR. Their porch is continuous all around the house. As for the master bath and closet,a I always thought having the entrance to the closet from the at broom made no sense...until I lived in a condo that had it set up that way and I loved it - it was very convenient to go right tp from the shower to the vanity to the closet and back to the vanity. I would personally eliminate the door from the master bath to the laundry, but I also don't see it as a problem if you think it would be useful. Re the coat closet, you might consider moving the powder room to where the vacuum closet is now, and put the coat closet where the powder room is and the broom closet where the coat closet was....See Morekitchen island lighting and dining room- no walls to separate
Comments (1)And how can we help??...See MoreSeparate Dining Room or not
Comments (32)Hi Everyone, Happy Friday! . Not sure if I should be keeping the same thread but since your suggestions gave a North, I decided to keep it here so you could see the progress or maybe more dilemma. Let me know if it will be better to start a new topic.. After gathering all wonderful suggestions recommended here, my husband and I discussed and decided to go with a open concept and after 1 year or so ( test run LOL) decide if we need to close the Kitchen, this way we could add some cabinetry ( as suggested here) to close up the Kitchen a little bit. So, now my dilemma... Where should the kitchen be located. I would like to ask for your help as I can't visualize it properly and I need to have it defined before submitting the plans for the building permit. ( I wish I could just have it as TBD and decide after framing is done. LOL) I am attaching the two option, one is the most current ( kitchen beside the bathroom, middle of the house) and the other option is Kitchen facing the rear of the house. I understand the most common layout is the Kitchen where is currently located. Everything will stay the same and the only change would be the Kitchen I really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience and helping us to decide....See MoreRelated Professionals
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