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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our rowhouse has kitchen --&gt; dining room ---&gt; living room.  Unusual, but I've actually seen a few others where the kitchen is in the front room.  I have mixed feelings about it.  We bought the house with this layout and even if we had strong feelings about moving the kitchen to the rear of the house, it probably wouldn't be worth it.

There are pros and cons to this set-up.  Pro: I really like having the living room in the rear of the house.  We have French doors that open right onto the deck and patio, and it's lovely to have the view of our garden.  The house faces south so the living room gets the best light.  Even though there are houses on other side of the alley, it's actually more private than if the living room was at the front of the house.  We live in a busy neighborhood that gets a lot of foot traffic at all hours of the day and night.  People are constantly strolling by and looking into the houses from the sidewalk.  We don't spend as much time in the kitchen as we do the living room, so the lack of privacy in the kitchen isn't too terrible.

Con: it's an unusual layout and I wonder if that will impact resale if we ever move.  Also, while we have a small foyer and a hallway leading toward the back of the house, the kitchen is the first room you see when walking into the house.  You don't immediately walk into it upon entering the house, but it's right there.

Our dining room is in the middle, which seems pretty standard.  In a rowhouse, I think you almost have to have the kitchen and dining room next to each other, regardless of where in the floorplan those two rooms are.  Otherwise you are forced to walk through the living room to get from the kitchen to the dining room or vice versa.   
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Oh, thats a very interesting layout, I don't think I've seen any in my neighborhood with the kitchen in the front! I'm on a quest for real estate listings with that layout now, just to see what it could look like. How/where are your stairs to the second floor? I've seen a few houses where the stairs have been redone "backwards" (i.e. when you're walking up the stairs, you're walking towards the front door). Like [url=https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/126-Bryant-St-NW-20001/home/10050296]this house [/url]. Looking from the kitchen at the back towards the front of the house, you can see they've flipped the staircase around:

[img]https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/235/mbpaddedwide/006/genMid.1003421006_6_0.jpg[/img]

I agree that having the living room not as visible from the street is nice. My street doesn't get as much foot traffic, and the basement is partly above grade (so from the sidewalk you can't easily see in to the front of the house, you can only really see in from the other side of the street). But I'm certainly guilty of trying to peer in to other houses when I'm walking around in the evening! [/quote]

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