How much space needed for an open plan kitchen/diner/sitting room?

nubbins

Floorplanner.com is good as well, you can add sofas,kitchen units/Islands etc etc

Doozergirl

ellie27 wrote: »

Looking to have some full length doors out onto the garden along the back wall so cannot really have the 2 walls with units on.

Be careful of cramming too much in to one room. Your list is the tick box of virtually every client and potential client we've been to over the last three years.

Full length doors look lovely, but effectively removing walls removes a lot of possible furniture options, especially when you're trying to fit several functions in to a space. Plan what is most important first - kitchen, dining and sofa placements before commiting to full doors. They are used for a fraction of the time but will affect the way you use the room all year round.

Full width windows with strategically positioned doors will still give a lovely outlook. They may not be what 'everyone' is doing right now, but we've put enough bifold doors into enough houses now and lived with them to know how they can interrupt the flow of even a very large room. And how often they are really used...

Just plan the living space first, not the doors!

ellie27

Hubby would love full doors taking the full wall opening onto the garden, and as lovely as it would be as the garden is beautiful, I have written that one off already and convinced him its not the right thing to do here.

Kitchen, dining table and a couple small tub chairs and just 2 or 3 doors opening onto garden would be magic.

Thanks!