Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Aug 17, 2014 9:02 am We have belatedly realised that house plan is going to encourage people to walk through the kitchen instead of the dining area to get from one part of the house to the other. It's an island bench style kitchen facing onto the dining room, but the dining area is too narrow to have a clear walkway past the table at the moment so when anyone is seated, other people will likely walk through the kitchen. Currently the kitchen is 1200mm deep (between the island bench and the wall cabinetry). I am considering reducing this to 1100mm, which will give the dining room an extra 10cm. This combined with buying a slightly smaller dining table will HOPEFULLY help me encourage foot traffic through the dining area instead of the kitchen; but at the cost of the "optimum" kitchen dimensions. What would you do?? Re: Narrow kitchen vs kitchen-as-thoroughfare 2Aug 17, 2014 9:41 am can you put up a plan for us? can you swap the dinning and kitchen around? so you walk through the dinning to get to the kitchen? Re: Narrow kitchen vs kitchen-as-thoroughfare 3Aug 17, 2014 10:37 am Sorry, I don't know how to put pics up... Basically, as the house is already underway major changes are probably not an option. Also, two walls of the dining room are three-panel stacker sliding doors, so there are no suitable walls for kitchen cabinetry if they were to be reversed. The stackers are opening onto a deck, so guests using the master bath will pass through the dining room or kitchen from the stacker doors to the bathroom. Re: Narrow kitchen vs kitchen-as-thoroughfare 4Aug 19, 2014 9:25 am Reduce the Kitchen width, you dont want the kitchen as a thoroughfare in any case scenario. 1100mm is still quite wide and easily used with people back to back. Kitchen in galley style designs can be down to 900mm providing appliances are placed in correct positions. Re: Narrow kitchen vs kitchen-as-thoroughfare 5Aug 19, 2014 9:30 am Depends I guess. Your kids will walk either way. Guests will normally walk the obvious way - which is the wider I'd say. I'd look at reducing the kitchen - within reason - 1000 would be a minimum I'd say. Re: Narrow kitchen vs kitchen-as-thoroughfare 7Aug 19, 2014 8:42 pm Galley style kitchen is the worst. I have one and absolutely hate it. (Just my experience sorry) In the next house we will be going open plan ! Thanks again for this information. If you do hear anything different, would be great to know 4 8182 dimensions on your original plan are inconsistent and with accurate dimensions (including site plan, upstairs and down) i could make a proper scale drawing with furniture… 3 7487 A quick update, we didn't have site start before Easter. Summit can't seem to give me a day when they are scheduled to begin, so I'm left with a vague "within 10-20… 4 26733 |