Need help for my open kitchen, dining and living room layout design

8 years ago

Hello,

We're planning to build a new house for our family of 4 (with 2 kids, ages 5 and 9).

I attached the photos of the house view, current layout planS. (My kid changed the color of the house to green! Actually it would be white with some wooden decorations :) )

Our problem is that we have a rectangular space for the open kitchen, dining and living room. As the land is rectangular in shape and we have limited wall to the street, also considering the east and west directions (shown in the photos), we placed the house as seen. We'll see the roof, there's no ceiling on the right of the house, one-floor part.

We studied several options where the kitchen should be. Where should we put the kitchen? Near to the entry or near to the deck? I put layouts "ALTERNATIVE-1" and "ALTERNATIVE-2"?

If we put the kitchen near to the entry door(ALTERNATIVE-1), what do you think about the kitchen layout seen in the photo?
I need advices where I should put the devices and sink.

And if you have any other advices about general layout, I'd be appreciated to hear...

Thanks for your kind cooperation.

Regards,

Aysun

aysun.goksu@yahoo.com

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sebutaysun
Original Author
8 years ago
Is it also possible to make a play corner for the kids in the living area? How can we manage to make such a space?
tcufrog
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
It would be possible to put a play corner in the first two drawings but not in alternative 2. I would recommend a corner of storage furniture to corral the toys. I am usually a fan of built-ins but not in this case because eventually the kids will outgrow their toys and you won't need that storage there anymore. The built-in exception would be a window seat under one of those windows on the plans. Some of the storage could be cabinets or bookshelves for bins or toys underneath a window seat. I'm not a fan for toy box style storage because they either become a black hole or the kids throw everything out of them looking for what they want and then do't put the rest of it back.

As for the kitchen placement, near to the deck would be best in you like to eat outdoors on the deck or entertain on the deck. We entertain a lot and the kitchen is on the other side of the house from the patio. It's a real pain and a big part of my design brief for the architect was for the kitchen to be next to the patio. I even wanted a pass-through window from the kitchen sink to the patio for ease of clean up but unfortunately I wasn't able to work that out.
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Oaktown
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
You are asking about the house, but I don't feel that I could make any helpful comments without understanding a bit more about your site plan and program.

How will you arrive and enter the house? How will guests arrive and enter the house?

Are you planning to park a car in the garage? Your site plan doesn't seem to show a driveway?

Where will the kids play?

Is that a pool? Is that your preferred placement for a pool?

Do you want to be able to watch the kids outside playing, from the kitchen, or other room(s)?

Perhaps you already have thought through these and other questions. Good luck!
chelwa
8 years ago
Where should we put the kitchen? Near to the entry or near to the deck?

If you are looking for efficiency put the kitchen nearest the one you will be transporting food to (or from) most frequently. If you will use the deck more frequently than you buy groceries I would place it near the deck. With the kitchen near the deck it would be more difficult to have a large play area but you could easily have toy storage along the wall and maybe reverse the stairs and have a play house/cave under the stairs? My kids (almost the same age) would probably just play in the middle of the living room anyway even if I had a "play area" :).

I love that you have a place for bikes planned in your garage.

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I would move the toilet in the master bath so that it isn't right in front of the door. Is that a balcony off of the laundry room?
tcufrog
8 years ago
I was looking at the stairs and started to notice that they look awfully long. Is there any way to add a landing so that they switch back and take up a smaller footprint? You could then reclaim some space for a pantry.