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Renovating Dining Rooms Kitchens

Kitchen/diner or not?

last year

Is the trend/desire still to have a kitchen diner or separate rooms?
Debating whether to knock through our galley kitchen which is adequate for 2 of us or not.
Thank you

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User
last year
Open plan kitchen/dining/living spaces seem to be very popular now. I live on my own and don't regret knocking through the kitchen and dining room.
Mo Reene
Original Author
last year
Thank you I have posted pics of our kitchen on the other post .
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Daisy England
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Knock through. We did this 30 years ago when we first moved into our current house and have never regretted it. So much more sociable.
Mo Reene thanked Daisy England
Sonia
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I did just that several years ago. My 1930s house had the teeniest kitchen ever, so we knocked through to the dining room and created a much nicer space. It’s not huge but it suits us. The wall was not load bearing and my husband removed it. We had a budget kitchen installed as well as new electrics, flooring and tiles. We blocked in the back door as we already had sliding doors and use them. Also installed a new kitchen window. This was 12 years ago and the whole thing, kitchen and all, cost £13,000. Obviously it would be more now. Although it’s not the huge open plan kitchen some people have, we love it.
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