Kitchen/diner layout dilemma
Catherine Wright
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Comments (10)Hi Ashley. I would caution against the design style of the apartment above. From what info there is, in the real world that kitchen layout would be painful to eat at. Assuming the width there is 3.0m (depends on where they measured the kitchen) then a benchtop of 600mm, a kitchen walkway of approx 1000mm, then a counter of 600 only leaves an 800mm wide passage/seating area. Even if the room is 3200mm wide you only get a seating/walkway of 1000mm and then you need to be careful of the fridge intrusion into the kitchen space. The failing of this design is trying to have 2 separate walkways in limited space. Oklouise's design is better because you are multi tasking the same open space ie it is both a passage way and the kitchen work area. It also provides a wall to enable the fridge depth to be part of the length of the room and not the width. Keep in mind in also that in order to do that design the people above likely needed access to your? apartment to relocate the drains. That is the biggest issue in apartments and needs to be reviewed and resolved before you can do any work. Cheers...See MoreCatherine Wright
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