Talk to me about lounge/kitchen/diner rooms

bylromarha

Currently having an extension built. We've had to amend our plans as we've gone as lintels/joists etc.

We can no longer have 2 sitting rooms separated by bi fold doors, so we're thinking about a sitting/dining/kitchen with a separate sitting room. Do any of you have these rooms? Positives and negatives please? Thanks.

Doozergirl

I have that. Have had it in the last six houses. No one sits in the second sitting area.

In this house I put a wall up in the kitchen/diner/lounge and made a separate office. Then I took the wall down and moved the dining area to have a different open plan style kitchen/diner/lounge. Again, no one sits in it yet, but it needs to be decorated. I still don't think anyone will use it.

DS wants me to make it a home cinema. Too much money and we have enough TVs!

We are building our own house next year and it will have a kitchen diner and a separate lounge.

In different houses, the unused area has changed between the open plan and the separate.

In the first and second, the kids were small and would watch DVDs or CBBCs in the second one. Now they are bigger, they are in their rooms.

I think as families change, needs change.

missbiggles1

I'm about to put a wall up between the sitting room and the kitchen (too much like living in a bed sit for me) but I may then take down the wall between the kitchen and the adjacent room (old kitchen) to make a big dining kitchen.

On a recent thread, the consensus was in favour of dining kitchens but thought that all open plan was a step too far.

DRP

bylromarha wrote: »

Currently having an extension built. We've had to amend our plans as we've gone as lintels/joists etc.

We can no longer have 2 sitting rooms separated by bi fold doors, so we're thinking about a sitting/dining/kitchen with a separate sitting room. Do any of you have these rooms? Positives and negatives please? Thanks.

As long as you also have the separate living room, i don't see any issues or compromises with open plan kitchen/lounge/diner tbh.

jackomdj

We have 3 rooms downstairs. Officially a large living room, large kitchen and a dining room. In reality we use the kitchen as a kitchen diner, we often sit at the dining table during the day. The living room gets used. The dining room we changed into a playroom for the children, and as they grow they will have it as a den for them and their friends.

bylromarha

We have tweens, so the separate sitting room will be used by us as they get older. Plus we have lots of people round to talk through emotional stuff, so the sitting room is also a place to chat with them where they can cry without kids walking in.

Tigsteroonie

bylromarha wrote: »

We can no longer have 2 sitting rooms separated by bi fold doors, so we're thinking about a sitting/dining/kitchen with a separate sitting room.

Colleague of mine was showing us the brochure for her sister's new house (sister is loaded). That had the same arrangement, but the former was described as the "Family Room" and the latter as the "Drawing Room"

hwalkerh

We have a kitchen dinner and seperate lounge. i like them seperate as you can sit in your lounge if someone is cooking without smelling or hearing it

bylromarha

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Colleague of mine was showing us the brochure for her sister's new house (sister is loaded). That had the same arrangement, but the former was described as the "Family Room" and the latter as the "Drawing Room"

So many posh names for these things.

SR1/SR2 will do us fine

casper_g

bylromarha wrote: »

So many posh names for these things.

SR1/SR2 will do us fine

Developers have always liked coming up with ridiculous "aspirational" names for rooms. My parents live in a 1920s semi and the original plans show a walk-in cupboard labelled as "Butler's Pantry" !! It's very pleasant but hardly Downton Abbey....