Kitchen/Diner layout advice
Hi all. Just finished (almost) our kitchen extension. Next on the list is to continue the renovation into the breakfast room which adjoins it. At present we have the kitchen table in the kitchen but we are wondering if this should be its final resting place once the breakfast room is sorted.
If it stays where it is then it leaves the breakfast room empty...... The only thoughts we have is to put a sofa and fireside chairs in there. We already have 2 lounges so this will create a third (first world problems). My wife likes this idea, mainly as she thinks the kitchen table is best placed in the kitchen for ease of serving and clearing away plates. I see her point but am keen to avoid "the house of lounges". My thought is to move the kitchen table into the breakfast room thus kind of extending the kitchen and also having an informal dining room. I'd then put some sort of small sofa or chairs where the kitchen table currently is as a seating area.
I think deep down my wife has the right idea but I'm just keen to avoid another lounge.
Thoughts on layout are much appreciated even if it's something completely different.
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Here is in the kitchen looking to the fireplace and the breakfast room through the 2 arches.
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5 years agoAnd from further back. Thanks for the thoughts so far. Photos late coming due to issues trying to upload
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI think you can get away with having a kitchen / diner and a proper formal dining room for entertaining, echoing the dark grey of the kitchen units
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5 years agoThink I’m leaning towards a library room type affair. Loads on pics online. Similar to this.
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5 years agoI’d have a library/homework room there with a desk with computer for the kids, convenient to keep an eye on them while you make dinner. I’d also have an armchair near the fire for cozy reading and consulting recipes.
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5 years agoI would leave the table in the kitchen. In the room with the fireplace I suggest you to insert poufs and two armchairs, they are comfortable and non-invasive and they can furnish the room with an elegant and minimalist style.
Examples of poufs
Examples of armchairs that can be transformed in lounge chairs.
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