If you are looking into remodeling your kitchen, you’ve likely seen open-concept living areas in home improvement magazines and websites.
While other trends in the home design industry have come and gone, open-concept home designs remain popular, and for good reasons.
Very few homeowners regret combining their kitchen and dining room. However, before the COVID-19 pandemic, merging the kitchen, dining room, and living room was a popular design choice. During the lockdowns, though, the drawbacks to an entirely open living area surfaced. Without any walls, sounds echo and quickly become overpowering. If you have multiple people in your home, you understand how necessary it is to control noise!
Though open-concept living areas have fallen out of favor with many homeowners, open-concept cooking areas are still a favorite. Combining the kitchen and dining room breathes new life into a home.
Like most people, you probably use your kitchen daily. But how often do you use your dining room?
Most families only use their dining rooms for formal meals or holiday dinners. For the majority of the time, then, the room is wasted space. Combining the kitchen and dining room into one open area expands the cooking space, allowing for an eat-in kitchen. With the appliances and table all within a short distance from each other, eat-in kitchens are far more practical for many families than the traditional home layout.
Besides being practical for families, open-concept kitchens are perfect for homeowners who frequently host. Without walls and doorways, space for islands or peninsulas opens up. This additional counter space provides plenty of room for food prep and cooking. Another perk to open-concept kitchens is that the chef is not shut out from gatherings by walls. So, even if you’re cooking, you can still enjoy the party.
Though extra counter space is a definite plus, perhaps the best part of the open-concept kitchen design is the floor space.
Kitchens often become magnets, especially during parties. However, very few things are as irritating as crowded kitchens, especially if you are busily cooking for many people. Open-concept kitchens take care of this problem, offering plenty of room for mingling and cooking.
To sum it all up, open-concept kitchens are both practical and popular.
This design invites light into a house, makes a room feel more spacious, and uses space efficiently. An open-concept kitchen will take your home from basic to magazine-worthy in no time.
Once dim and crowded, the cooking area in this Litchfield home became spacious and inviting thanks to the open-concept kitchen design. Photos courtesy of HTZ Construction.
