First thing you see from front door is 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.

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.

^ and temperature control!

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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.

No, I don't need to know anything from incompetent designers.

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Idk, does anyone follow the design blog Chris Loves Julia? They are designing their new house to have the kitchen in front, off the foyer.

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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.

No, I don't need to know anything from incompetent designers.

We don't need to hear from the design-ignorant such as yourself.

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My neighbors renovated their homes and put huge wall windows. So now you don’t only see the kitchen as you enter the front door, you see the full thing from the street. Though I never see them use the kitchen, so it’s in an ideal condition - design magazine pristine.

Like you, I like having nook or entry that separates the entrance from the rest of the space. So I’d also find it weird just entering into a huge open floor.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk, does anyone follow the design blog Chris Loves Julia? They are designing their new house to have the kitchen in front, off the foyer.

You want the most $$$ spaces front and center if you're literally trying to sell everything in your house.

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Anonymous wrote:My neighbors renovated their homes and put huge wall windows. So now you don’t only see the kitchen as you enter the front door, you see the full thing from the street. Though I never see them use the kitchen, so it’s in an ideal condition - design magazine pristine.

Like you, I like having nook or entry that separates the entrance from the rest of the space. So I’d also find it weird just entering into a huge open floor.

They might have two kitchens.

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We have a front door that leads to kitchen too. It was the only way to open kitchen dining room so we ran with it. Love our new kitchen it’s center of everything 😊

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Anonymous wrote:Keep some walls to hang coats, paintings, and very importantly to block and absorb noise.

Contractors are not normally good designers.

This. And yes, seeing the kitchen from front door is not great. I wouldn’t knock walls to get the view.

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I added a wall (actually closed off a doorway) that allowed a view of the kitchen and dishwasher from the front door. Really bothered me.

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I would not knock down walls in a 1960s split-level. I have seen several of these. Often, but not always, removing the walls actually makes the space seem smaller.

That said, one PP noted that she added a door so the initial view from the doorway was not the kitchen. That often does make sense. It means the person’s view gets shifted to the side towards the LR.

A whole lot depends on the specific house and specific floor plan, however.

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My neighbors renovated their 105 year old bungalow (went back 10 feet and added a full second story) and you can literally see every corner of the entire first floor while standing in the doorway. It's like a door to a gymnasium. I hate it.

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I agree with keeping the walls. I don't care for the fully open look- not a fan of seeing a kitchen from the front door.

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Is it like this?

https://www.fourgenerationsoneroof.com/cute-split-level-house-remodel-project/

I saw another remodel where they hollowed out the pony wall to provide storage (see bottom photo)

https://www.happystartsathome.com/client/split-level-home-gets-a-gorgeous-open-plan-kitchen/

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When we renovated in 2016, I talked myself into a large open space kitchen that was the first thing you saw when you walked into the house.

I grew so tired of that. I just paid 120K for another remodel project that moved the kitchen to the back of the house. Now what you see when you walk in is a set of glass doors into the dining room. Off the dining room is another set of glass doors into the kitchen. It is SO much better, I almost don't begrudge the money. It was my own stupid plan after all.