Large Living Room or Seperate Living/Dining Room?

lumencreative

I have been looking on here at the various home improvement threads but wondered if I get could some opinions on our situation.

At present we have a living room with an opening that goes into a dining room area. There are no doors on at present (and no door frame in place) but it's about the width of a pair of French doors.

When we bought the house there was a door from the dining room into the kitchen but this has since been boarded up during a kitchen renovation.

We don't use the 'dining room' as a dining area as we have opened up the kitchen into the conservatory and have our dining table in there, so we're looking for ideas of what to do with the 'dining room'.

One thought was to remove the diving wall completely and have a large front to back living room, but my concern is whether this would lower the value of the house over having 2 seperate rooms.

Another option is to put French doors on the diving wall and make the dining room into a second sitting room/snug.

What would you do?

cte1111

For me, I'd prefer a large living room, as the separate room would probably just end up unused. Other people might well think of using it as an office they worked from home or a play room.

lumencreative

cte1111 wrote: »

For me, I'd prefer a large living room, as the separate room would probably just end up unused. Other people might well think of using it as an office they worked from home or a play room.

We've already got an office as the previous owners converted the garage and we don't have kids (yet) so you're right, it'd probably end up unused. As I said, my concern would be whether making one room out of two would affect the value.

lindsaygalaxy

I think it's a personal thing. If it's how I imagine Iwould have a kitchen diner and use the conservatory as an extra living space. Or like mentioned above I would use it as a playroom. I don't think by opening it up it would devalue it - it's just personal taste.

lumencreative

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

I think it's a personal thing. If it's how I imagine Iwould have a kitchen diner and use the conservatory as an extra living space. Or like mentioned above I would use it as a playroom. I don't think by opening it up it would devalue it - it's just personal taste.

Thanks for your input. The conservatory is quite large so spans the whole width of the house. The dining table is at the kitchen end and we have a sofa/tv area at the other end.

I like the idea of a play room for when we have kids but until then the room will be unused, and who knows how long it'll take for kids to come alone haha.