Open plan kitchen living layout help
Hi all,
We are planning on a single level rear extension that is north facing and have an open canvas to work with. The space will be about 6m x 8.5m (roughly 51sqm). We are very new to this and would love some ideas on kitchen, dining, entertainment layout for the open space.
Thank you in advance.
Comments (8)
siriuskey
4 years ago
Sal S
4 years agoRelated Discussions
Need help on making open plan kitchen living room
Comments (14)I find it difficult to view your floor plan as it blurs if I enlarge it, so excuse me if this comment is invalid. Assuming the entry is from your living room and the home runs lengthways with the hall linking the bathroom, ldry and bedroom from the kitchen. The issue with this is that having two doors in the kitchen means you cannot form a working triangle for it to function well and don't have enough wall to fit out with tall storage. However, if you sealed up the door to the hall and opened access to the hall from the lounge as your plans seems to indicate in the top right of the lounge area, then you could widen the front opening into the kitchen rather than remove an entire wall, so integrate it into your living zone without lumping a kitchen in the middle of your lounge, you will improve your walk through flow, and gain a new length of wall in the kitchen where your fridge could go into the corner with a larger pantry flanking it, then your proposed layout t follow....See MoreHelp! Kitchen & Living Rooms in new house plan layout
Comments (38)One other comment. We have a bedroom off the great room but we set the door back by building out the wall with a fireplace. It helps with sight lines. We used built ins on the left to hide the TV when we have company, and the fireplace is a woodburning BIZ which heats the entire house (we live in a forest,,) the side is for firewood storage and we keep matches, batteries, flashlights in that area, but it does help when our guests are on the sofa from seeing right into the bedroom....See MoreLiving Room open plan layout
Comments (20)Wow! Absolutely awesome siriuskey - thank you for sharing this - your Architect's plan here is just on a completely different level and immediately demonstrates the value of professional design.......isolated room arrangement does not equate to architecture - architecture is about articulating the experience of space and sadly so many project opportunities are missed when it's not understood or recognised that this (spatial/living experience) is what it is all about and if approached/founded on this principle the concept will maximise the project/property value.....this principle can be applied to all types/scales of project whether new builds and renos/extensions or small fitouts.........what your Architect's plan (I think) shows is definitive consideration of and connection to site/context as well as balancing/blending creativity of planning with function, developing rooms of various scales and a multi-dimensional/layered but also relatively simple/streamlined set of both internal and external spaces. What people often don't understand is that this type of option/layout will actually feel more spacious and significantly more interesting than other options that are physically larger but not nearly as elegantly and sensitively resolved. It also doesn't necessarily have to be that more expensive....so good to see this - aren't you lucky! :) PD...See MoreOpen Plan Living Layout
Comments (13)From your photo the beam looks like it is supported by the wall. If you remove the wall then you will need to replace the beam with another beam which is longer and deeper, or replace the wall with a column to support the beam. I always suggest to new home owners that they live in their new home for at least 12 months before undertaking expensive alterations. You need to understand how your home works (or doesn't work) through the seasons. Moving furniture around is much cheaper than demolishing load bearing walls in the short term. You should also research the pros and cons of single open plan living for your household type. There are plenty of families with teenagers who hate their open plan living. Don't rush and best of luck, Dr Retro of Dr Retro House Calls...See Moreoklouise
4 years ago
Karen Seymour
4 years agoHi Sal, we are currently building and a must for us was the kitchen/dining/family leading to the outside. We like the laundry at
the back as we grow vegetables. Here is the copy of my plan that I designed myself. The dimensions excluding the laundry are 9.6 metres long x 4.8 metres wide.
Sal S
4 years agoThank you for your replies. As I said, we’re new to this :)
Here are a few photos of the current layout and the rear of the house where we want the extension to be. It’s a double brick house, internally there are floor boards and there is crawl space under the house. The land slopes down from north to south. We rarely use the front entrance and usually come in from the rear. The exisiting deck is relatively new and would be nice to have the extension open up to it and the northern aspect.
dreamer
4 years agodreamer
4 years agoThe layout that Karen has posted works well for 9.6 metres. But you said yours is to 8.5m long. Comfortable space for living would be 3-4m, dining 3-3.5m, kitchen 3m. This adds to 9-10.5m.
An option would be to put kitchen with island facing north, and cupboard, appliances along south and east walls. It depends greatly on where are you putting laundry etc. if demolishing existing rooms, at the back. So as said by others, you need to look at the whole home, not just an extension.
siriuskey