Should I connect my living dining and kitchen area?
People have mostly been connecting the kitchen and dining
areas since many years ago. But recent trends have suggested that people have
also started to connect the living area with dining and Kitchen area. Should
you connect living dining and kitchen area? What are the pros and cons of
connecting living, dining and kitchen area?
In this blog article, we explain to you the pros and cons of
connecting the living, dining and kitchen areas with one another.
Pros of connecting Living, Dining and Kitchen Area
More Socialization
When you remove a wall between the living, dining and
kitchen area, you will interact more with your friends and family. Sometimes,
cooking alone in a kitchen can be boring. In an open kitchen, this will never
be the case. Even if you want privacy in your kitchen space, you can add focal
point to the open space where you can collaborate with your friends and family
while working alone in the kitchen.
Utilization of Open and Plenty of Flexibility in movement
If you make space open, it will look much bigger. You will
then have opportunity for a better interior designing. The open space will be
utilized in a much better way. For example, if you have separate rooms, you
might not have enough space to have a tea table in any of the rooms. But if you
connect dining, living and kitchen, you will get enough space to add tea table
and even a mini bar.
There will be plenty of flexibility in movement. Moving in a
congested space is a bit dull than moving in open space. Easier movement means
a vibrant and energetic home with full of activities that enhances your and
your children’s creativity.
Multiple Functionality
As already stated, there will be more space and more space
will help you add many things. You can add mini bar for hard and soft drinks,
you can add an extra sofa with coffee table, you can add plenty of decorations
to make the room look really majestic.
Plenty of Natural Light
If the rooms are very small and have a lot of walls, they
will have low natural light inside. The more open the floor plan, the more will
be the natural light inside the home. Plenty of natural light is often times
good for kitchen and dining space because it will make the living space fresh
and have little to no growth of fungi and other bacterial microorganisms.
Looking after Children
It is a problem of parents that they need to look after
their kids while managing their kitchen and stress of reaching to office on
time. If the kitchen dining and living rooms are open, they can make their kids
do their work or play in the living space while they are cooking food for their
family. They can ensure that their kids are doing their homework instead of
watching television.
Easier to Clean
When you have more corners at your home, it will take you
more time to clean. A lot of rooms will have a lot of wall and more corners.
But having an open living dining and kitchen will have less corner space and
therefore little time to clean the space.
Cons of Connecting Living, Dining and Kitchen
Noise
Having an open dining, kitchen and living space will have
much enjoyable parties, but there will also be a lot of noise because people
gathering at such spaces have tendency to become more ecstatic. If you enjoy
party but don’t enjoy the noise, you should not consider building the kitchen,
dining and living room with open floor plans.
No space for storage
You will have a lot of items that are seldom used, but are
important at times. You need to put them in your store. But there will be no
place for storage in open space because it will look too ugly.
Increased bill for maintaining temperature
Heating small rooms is easier than heating bigger rooms. Walls act as insulation between the rooms. Not having walls means rooms will have more exposure to outer atmosphere. And the bill of your air conditioning will be bigger than having separate dining, kitchen and living rooms.