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[quote=Anonymous]My perspective is that a formal dining room that is open to the kitchen isn’t actually formal. I especially object when there is bar seating jammed in next to the dining table.

If it were my house I might eliminate the island/peninsula and do the kitchen around the perimeter with as much furniture or furniture-like cabinetry as possible, then put a large table in the middle of the room to use as food pre workspace/homework/etc most of the time  and treat it like a “chef’s table” for formal dining.

BUT, a lot of people like to have standing workspace (counter height) that faces the living area and they wouldn’t like my solution and would prefer a peninsula. Plus some people would say I “lost” the dining room and now just have an eat in kitchen. I disagree but yada yada yada.

I do think that no matter what, if you have a smaller home where the kitchen is visible, you MUST identify a coherent design style and make sure all of your interior architecture and finishes suit each other. This is not the moment to look at a jillion kitchen pictures and pick out the cement tile you loved in a glass house in a California unless you have a huge row house that you’re taking to the studs and redoing all the interiors/moldings/finishes in a new and consistent style. [/quote]

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