If you want to create easy decorating ideas for living rooms and a more welcoming entertaining space. Improve the connectivity between kitchen, living and dining or just want to bring your home bang up to date, short of starting from scratch, you need to knock down some space-restricting, boundary-limiting walls! Such wisdom has been shared for quite some time by Location, Location, Location’s animated Kirsty Allsopp advising on, first things first, to knock down a wall or three.
Achieving this free-flowing layout will transform, not only how you perceive your interior, but how you live in it. No more missing out on the fun while you cook in an anti-social compartmentalised kitchen. Today’s welcoming spaces invite interaction and fluidity between relaxation, dining and entertaining zones to breathe a whole new way of life into your own personal spaces. Super sociable and multi-purpose, open plan living is more than just a trend, it’s functional living at its most stylish.
Whether you’re keeping an eye on a toddler at play while rustling up dinner at an island hob or making sure you’re part of the conversation while entertaining friends, the easy-going appeal of open plan is unrivalled.
Depending on the footprint you have to work with, open plan ranges from kitchen-diners to cavernous rooms with sitting areas, dining spaces and kitchen, the overall shape and layout depends on whether you take Kirsty’s advise and knock dividing walls or you’ve got a totally new structure to play with, be it a new build or an extension.
Large open spaces can easily be zoned to define areas and create points of interest, and this is where your kitchen designer’s creativity will really come into play. Designers of bespoke kitchens will also craft furniture to complement your kitchen: think about media units, bookcases, designing a kitchen island with seating, dining tables, even dressers or chests of drawers. Incorporating this into your scheme will build a cohesive, well-put-together-look, while giving each area its own identity and purpose.
Regardless of the size of the house, or number of other reception rooms you have, once you invest in an open plan kitchen, you’ll find you rarely use the rest of the house! It is amazing just how much time we do spend in our special kitchen designs, so what better time to really focus on the most important room of your entire home.
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