Browse Forums Kitchen Corner 1 Sep 04, 2008 8:57 am Hi we are having a new kitchen installed today. As part of the rennovations we have put a hole in the wall between the kitchen and lounge to open things up. The hole is 1m x 1.2m and on the kitchen side there will be cupboards under the hole.
They will be coming around today to measure up for the caesar stone bench-tops. The thing we can't decide is whether to have any overhang on the lounge side. We don't plan on making it a full breakfast bar with stools but would it still look better to have some benchtop coming through the hole into the lounge? Maybe 5cms or so? Would it be more appealing for re-sale? Sorry if this isn't clear, I'll try and post some pictures later this morning. Thanks! Re: Kitchen Servery 2Sep 04, 2008 9:30 am I think a small overhang sounds like a good idea. You need something to protect the walls on the lounge side and the overhang should do it, plates and cups etc won't bang into the wall as much this way if people are pasing stuff through.
If this is what you meant by overhang in the cutout. I would probably consider around 3cm as you don't want it to hinder anything on the lounge side if it is not to be used for a servery by potential buyers. I might rethink once you have photos, I might be completely out of the ballpark. Are you reselling straight away or is this for you to enjoy for your lifestyle now? Sounds exciting though, I look forward to the pics...... Re: Kitchen Servery 3Sep 04, 2008 10:59 am toshie, not sure if this is any help to you, but a few years ago we renovated our kitchen and at same time extended front of our house, the kitchen was previously an eat-in kitchen/dining but became just kitchen, there is a breakfast bar in it now but no table, old lounge room became a dining room and new room added at front to become new lounge room, all open space so we made large archway where previous lounge window had been and servery archway from kitchen to dining. We have a servery bench above the actual kitchen bench which I prefer as it separates the working bench of the kitchen from the servery itself and keeps a tidier look from the dining side, ie you don't see directly onto the working area of the kitchen. this servery bench is centred so there is equal overhang on both sides, the bench is about 30cm total, with about 5cm overhang each side. This is in a double brick house, obviously dimensions will change if your interior walls are not brick ie you would get more overhang or have a narrower total as the wall would be thinner.
the overhang from the dining room side Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and the servery viewed from the kitchen side, into the dining and lounge. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Kitchen Servery 4Sep 04, 2008 11:48 am Thanks PK, I think you are right that a 3cm overhang will look best and be the most functional.
We’re not planning on selling the place anytime soon but want to consider what might be best for resale/renting it out in the future. I think we’re a bit too late to have a raised servery Helyn but thanks very much for posting the picture, and the first picture of the overhang is pretty much exactly what ours will look like I guess so that was helpful. I don’t think I’m going to be able to post the pictures of the hole as it is now (I was relying on my boyfriend) but I’ll be sure to post the ones of the finished result. Thanks for your help! No. It's not original. Circa early to mid 90s would be my guess and maybe even as late as early 2000s 1 6626 2 4669 that will depend on the kitchen bench depth. you'll have to specify it so it allows for both the tap and the sink 1 7380 |