28/06/2022
Open plan kitchens are one of the most sought after features of a modern family home, thanks to their light, spacious feel and versatile design.
They usually combine the kitchen and dining area of a home, though you can also include a living room zone as part of yours.
Bear in mind that once a kitchen is part of an open space it will impact on every other area – there’s no closing the door on noisy appliances and clutter left on worktops after preparing a meal.
Likewise, the cabinetry will be in plain view all of the time, so it needs to look stylish.
One of the biggest pros is that open plan kitchens really do bring the whole family together and therefore reinforces that the kitchen is the heart of the home.
Take time to think about how people will move through the open-plan room. Circulation space between zones needs to be unimpeded by furniture.
When you look across your open-plan space, you want it to have a flow, and for it to be cohesive. Here the dining table is next to the kitchen to make serving dinner easy.
An open-plan, live-in kitchen diner needs to have defined areas – seating, dining, cooking – even if they’re open to one another, so start by planning which zone the kitchen will occupy.
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