First thing you see from front door is kitchen?

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Anonymous wrote:Removing a kitchen wall might look good on TV but it doesn't live well. If you remove walls you are very limited with your furniture placement. Plus walls are ideal for privacy, sound control, etc. Don't fall for this fad.

This makes no sense. If you think furniture placement is a function of putting things against walls then you don't know anything about design.

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Keep the wall. I have to work so hard to hide the sliver of area in the foyer from which you can see a small part of my kitchen. I hate it.

If I ever build my own house, my kitchen would be in a corner of the house in the back.

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Keep the wall. I have to work so hard to hide the sliver of area in the foyer from which you can see a small part of my kitchen. I hate it.

If I ever build my own house, my kitchen would be in a corner of the house in the back.

Who are you hiding your kitchen from?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it’s weird to walk into a house and directly see the kitchen. I think of kitchens as private rather than public spaces in a home.

I don't think that's a very common belief these days. Kitchens are the showpieces for most homes.

Kitchens can be private spaces that are beautiful just for the residents. I’ve never understood kitchens being the center of parties, which is when they’re likely the most messy and disorganized and should in fact be the most private. And when they’re clean between meals, they not lively spaces.

Ahhh I hate when I am having an event and everyone congregates in the kitchen. Even when I lived in a a colonial people managed to make their way into the kitchen.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah a “private” kitchen makes me think of my grandmother who slaved away in one all day for holiday meals while the rest of us hung out or came and went and then after dinner the women would go in and help her with the dishes and the men would adjourn to the living room.

Ugh.

There is a big difference between a "private" kitchen (which sounds nice to me because I'm an introvert) and a kitchen that isn't visible from your front door. But the current trend in new builds is to have two kitchens: a big showpiece kitchen for entertaining, and a private one for actual cooking. Because people have realized that a kitchen doesn't look like a magazine when you actually use it, and maybe our ancestors weren't so stupid after all.

This is so stupid and wasteful.

The people doing this have $$$$. But what's more stupid and wasteful is tearing down walls in your 2000 SF house, making your home less functional because you saw it in a magazine.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah a “private” kitchen makes me think of my grandmother who slaved away in one all day for holiday meals while the rest of us hung out or came and went and then after dinner the women would go in and help her with the dishes and the men would adjourn to the living room.

Ugh.

There is a big difference between a "private" kitchen (which sounds nice to me because I'm an introvert) and a kitchen that isn't visible from your front door. But the current trend in new builds is to have two kitchens: a big showpiece kitchen for entertaining, and a private one for actual cooking. Because people have realized that a kitchen doesn't look like a magazine when you actually use it, and maybe our ancestors weren't so stupid after all.

This is so stupid and wasteful.

The people doing this have $$$$. But what's more stupid and wasteful is tearing down walls in your 2000 SF house, making your home less functional because you saw it in a magazine.

How does tearing down a wall make a house less functional? Seriously. Explain. And remember, I want to hear what functions the wall is responsible for.

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When my child was small I wanted a more open layout so that I could see him while I was cooking. I ended up with a very large kitchen that has a big dining area and we multipurposed that area. As he grew older, he wanted to hang with his friends in a more private area (and we wanted that space as well). I would say that it's hard to have all things at all phases in life, but a larger kitchen and walls to other rooms gave us more options.

I do like a kitchen that is in the front of the house and close to a driveway if that is where you enter with the groceries. Can you tell I'm getting old??

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When you walk in my front door it's all open space. To your immediate left is a small coat closet and then stairs leading upstairs. To your right is the kitchen. If you look straight in front of you, you are looking into the living room. I kind of hate that the kitchen is the first room you enter when you walk into my house.

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We had this, except that the view was a combo of our 1/2 bath and the kitchen. Ack.

We ended up renovating and only needed to extend a wall by a few inches to prevent the bathroom view. Maybe this would work for your kitchen?

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I wouldn't knock down all walls- I feel that has been dated for a few years. I don't like seeing the kitchen from the front door either- it is too informal. I also like privacy walls from the front door.

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When we added a kitchen to our small rambler, I let the architect and my husband talk me into a design where you see the entire kitchen from the front door. I hate it. No.privacy, always looks messy.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah a “private” kitchen makes me think of my grandmother who slaved away in one all day for holiday meals while the rest of us hung out or came and went and then after dinner the women would go in and help her with the dishes and the men would adjourn to the living room.

Ugh.

There is a big difference between a "private" kitchen (which sounds nice to me because I'm an introvert) and a kitchen that isn't visible from your front door. But the current trend in new builds is to have two kitchens: a big showpiece kitchen for entertaining, and a private one for actual cooking. Because people have realized that a kitchen doesn't look like a magazine when you actually use it, and maybe our ancestors weren't so stupid after all.

This is so stupid and wasteful.

The people doing this have $$$$. But what's more stupid and wasteful is tearing down walls in your 2000 SF house, making your home less functional because you saw it in a magazine.

How does tearing down a wall make a house less functional? Seriously. Explain. And remember, I want to hear what functions the wall is responsible for.

Privacy, sound mitigation, smell mitigation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Removing a kitchen wall might look good on TV but it doesn't live well. If you remove walls you are very limited with your furniture placement. Plus walls are ideal for privacy, sound control, etc. Don't fall for this fad.

This makes no sense. If you think furniture placement is a function of putting things against walls then you don't know anything about design.

...or you don't. I can't count the flipped homes I've seen that have no flexibility for furniture placement because they removed interior walls. While I'm sure you're fine with mounting your TV above your fireplace, most people want more options. Not everyone has an upright piano like I do, but many people have credenzas, buffets, hall trees, etc. that don't just float in the middle of the goddam combination kitchen/dining/living room. If you want to learn more about interior design and why partition walls are functional, Laurel Bern has an excellent blog that will explain this to you.

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Anonymous wrote:When we added a kitchen to our small rambler, I let the architect and my husband talk me into a design where you see the entire kitchen from the front door. I hate it. No.privacy, always looks messy.

Tell your architect that Philip Johnson didn't prepare meals in the glass house; cooking was done offsite by someone else. The kitchen as display only works for the very wealthy, or those who live on take out.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah a “private” kitchen makes me think of my grandmother who slaved away in one all day for holiday meals while the rest of us hung out or came and went and then after dinner the women would go in and help her with the dishes and the men would adjourn to the living room.

Ugh.

There is a big difference between a "private" kitchen (which sounds nice to me because I'm an introvert) and a kitchen that isn't visible from your front door. But the current trend in new builds is to have two kitchens: a big showpiece kitchen for entertaining, and a private one for actual cooking. Because people have realized that a kitchen doesn't look like a magazine when you actually use it, and maybe our ancestors weren't so stupid after all.

This is so stupid and wasteful.

The people doing this have $$$$. But what's more stupid and wasteful is tearing down walls in your 2000 SF house, making your home less functional because you saw it in a magazine.

How does tearing down a wall make a house less functional? Seriously. Explain. And remember, I want to hear what functions the wall is responsible for.

Spend a week in a yurt with your family and get back to us.