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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a 3k square foot center hall colonial. Classic layout- walk in the front door to a hallway and a center staircase. Left side is a long living room. Right side is a dining room. Straight ahead at the back of the hall is a powder room. Back room, behind the dining room, is the kitchen.

This is not open concept, there are French doors scattered around the downstairs from hallway to living, hallway to dining, hallway to kitchen, and kitchen to dining.

We are doing a renovation of our kitchen and , due to an awkward footprint of our current kitchen- which is also quite small- we are going to take out the wall separating kitchen and dining. We will keep up all the other walls so we will still have the classic hallway down the center.

Due to natural light factors, wanting lots of windows to look out into our backyard, and due to some awkward things about the kitchen footprint that can’t be changed, we are considering putting the kitchen stuff in the front of the house (current dining area) and dining stuff in the back of the house. It will be open, regardless, from kitchen to dining.

This layout makes perfect sense with the awkward footprint of our kitchen (weird alcove area can become a bar/ coffee station/ china display area for example) but my husband is hesitant because it does seem strange to have the kitchen in a “front room” as opposed to at the back of the house. He isn’t wrong, but I guess I don’t see the big deal. Due to the hallway, you won’t see “KITCHEN” as soon as you open the front door: and we come in through the garage 99% of the time regardless (which ironically brings us right into our current kitchen).

Sorry so long. Any thoughts? Has anyone seen a kitchen in a front room of a center hall colonial? Is my husband right that this is too weird to be acceptable?[/quote]

A neighbor swapped kitchen and dining in an older center hall colonial. Pros: dining looks out to backyard, when hosting groups or larger gathering better flow from dining area to deck and yard, plus a much more spacious open style dining. Cons: kitchen window faces street, maybe they wanted that or there wasn't much other option for the sink to go over window as opposed to placing sink on new peninsula. Nicely done not too flashy and more functional it seemed when they hosted parties. [/quote]

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