Kitchen / Living Area layout

2 years ago

Hi.

I’m having a new extension built with the kitchen open plan living room area being 8.8m w x 7m d. Ideally i’d like the layout in the pic below and was thinking on the following spacing: Right wall kitchen unit 60cm deep, 1.1m gap beteen unit and kitchen island , island 1.2m wide with 4 corner seats, 1.2m between island and dining table, 90cm wide table, 70cm between table and sofa, 3.1m from back of sofa to tv wall. Will this be too cramped? Open to ideas

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siobhanmcgee90
2 years ago
I’m afraid this is just all too cramped. https://www.houzz.ie/magazine/10-essential-kitchen-dimensions-you-need-to-know-stsetivw-vs~77166332
Jags Singh
Original Author
2 years ago
Thanks for the reply and linking the article, some really useful info there. The distances I’ve listed above are all in line with your recommendations from the article apart from the table to the sofa. If I reduced the distance between island and dining table to 1m and increased distance between table and sofa to 90cm do you still think it would be cramped?
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Personally I think the fireplace is in the way. Because it leaves an area that seems to have no purpose. Furthermore when the hall wall is drawn in I think you will make the island about 90/100 deep so it would then be better to have it longer and again the chimney will be in the way. Given that you have a tv room right next door why not have this as the sitting area, put a bigger opening into this space with a sight line from the main hall and a good sized dining table in the kitchen. Since there is no dining table shown on this part of the plan I assume it is elsewhere- perhaps that area could be an additional sitting area instead. Separately you may decide not to put stools very close to the hob, an American style fridge is ugly and since you are planning such a big sociable space perhaps the desk area could be earmarked as a drinks area.
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@rinq thanks for the suggestion! Trouble is our sofa is a lot bigger than the one they already have in there which means it would pop out longer than the wall by quite a bit (so when you walk in from the hall, right to the left you will have a big chunk of sofa coming out). Then also the window is so big that the back wall is tiny so that's why the current owner has a tiny TV stand and even so it still covers the window a bit... Never thought it would be so difficult to arrange it when we fell in love with this house...!
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minnie101
2 years ago
i think the measurements are fine other than gap between table and sofa. The space beneath the sofa seems underused, plumbing permitting, could you make that a laundry/boot room? By eye it seems just about wide enough.

Is anything going on the island such as hob or sink as i assume it’s intentionally short so people can converse across it? Maybe your tall units could go against the shower room wall and have L shaped island instead?
minnie101
2 years ago
I forgot to ask, the tv wall is 4m?,does that mean tou’re having a huge tv?
Jags Singh
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2 years ago
Hi Minnie, our thinking was we would have double french doors linking the current living room to the back extension and that living room would become more of a children’s playroom and would like to be able to see them whilst in the extension - was toying with the idea of utility but opted for bigger living area. The planning drawings don’t actually show completely accurately what we’ve decided - our kitchen units will be L shaped and go against the shower room, also the island is 2.4m deep (with 1.2m between island and large sliding doors at the back and 1.2m between island and units on shower room wall) x 1.2m wide - do you think the island is too small? Also no the TV isn’t going to be huge just a 65” but thinking about how we’ll decorate that wall eg panelling

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