POLL: Open-plan or closed layout?
Jenny Drew
8 years ago
Open-plan
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Comments (6)Just moved into a new small house with an open kitchen/living area. I love it. I can be getting dinner, chatting with better half , watching news on TV. Just the two of us, so what's the point of isolating one of us in a separate room? If we entertain, we do most of the messy prep ahead of time and clear up. The rest gets shoved into the butlers pantry. That said, I can understand why someone who's into formal entertaining on a grand scale or who has a big family would want a separate kitchen, but for us open is great....See MoreNeed help with open plan living layout
Comments (6)the wooden floor makes it so much easier to consider moving plumbing and i'm wondering if moving the kitchen next to the laundry has been considered to enhance the indoor outdoor feel with a servery window and use the old kitchen meals area as a sitting tv area (with or without a means of closing off the area) and square up rumpus room and include the old entry to enlarge rumpus and create a new entry more centred along the verandah, having the new walls around the rumpus would allow for sound insulation and the two sets of doors between theh rumpus and living areas should improve separation without losing the separate study (guest room) and access to the other bedrooms and bath...accurate measurements would allow better consideration of this idea...See MorePOLL: What's the best kitchen layout?
Comments (35)Jacqueline Macho, I agree the sink between the two pantries would be too dangerous. I would check the measurement for your work area between the sink and cooktop. As you have a large cooktop and sink between the fridge and oven...is there enough room to do all the food prep? I love a clean island and have never liked the idea of having any cooktop on an island as it seems too dangerous. A large sink takes up too much room on an island, especially if you’ve forked out for lovely stone or granite. I have for my new build, which we have been in for a month now, put in a small round bowl. I’m glad I did as I use it for food prep, and it has filter water for drinking. It doesn’t compromise the look or use of our island. I have a large and deep sink in the butlers for doing the washing up. I only have one dishwasher...yes folks just one. As my benches are 950mm high I opted for an Asko xxl....they are taller than others. After renting a house with a fisher and paykel dish drawers, I swore never to have them in our new build. So I personally can’t recommend them. Others might like them. Kitchens cost so much that’s why we obsess over them....See MoreOpen Vs 'closed' kitchen - design help needed
Comments (8)@siriuskey - Brand new build. No house plan yet. This will be one 'pavillion'/box that contains living room, dining room, kitchen/scullery/butlers pantry, powder room, laundry,/mudroom/ storage and possibly wine storage/bar area. It will probably run north/south with the living in the north and mudroom/laundry in the south. Laundry needs to be on the south/east side as that is where our existing drying garden is and our sleeping pavilion/pod/box will be on the east. The mudroom needs to be on the south/west as that is the side we come in from the paddocks to the back of the house. We are a large working farm. we grow our own food and kill our own meat so we have several chest freezers and an extra fridge that will go in the mudroom/laundry area. The butler's pantry or part of the kitchen needs to attach to that. There also has to be access from the west from the garage either to the mudroom door or into/near the kitchen. I know what we want/need, I just can't visualise how to arrange it all so it works. I guess that's where designers step in. At this stage we're kind of working on a 7.5m wide box of yet to be determined length....See Morehowde1
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