Please show pictures of the other side of the wall.

A former owner of our home added on a very large family room to the backside of the kitchen - there was a window over the kitchen sink, so when the new room was built they simply removed the window and framed up the opening. They mounted a little ledge as you can see I have a small plant setting there.

Here’s a view of the faucet from my family room. I’m not a huge fan but I don’t hate it enough to wall it up.

Oops. I thought I did in the post. Here is the other side. You can see how high the countertop goes on the other side.

Thank you for the picture!! That doesn't look bad at all.

Well, no, it doesn’t look bad. I dislike it because of the noise factor and the informality.

DH’s chair sets about 5’ from the opening, and water running in the sink, the microwave operating, and various other kitchen noises bother him. I don’t like the view of all the kitchen stuff (things on the counter, pictures on the frig, dishes in the sink, etc etc) from the family room.

That's a great point. Thanks!

2000 will be a drop in the bucket if you have to have a big beam installed because of it being load bearing. You would be better off to have someone come and give an estimate so you are not planning on something that you may not ever do. Depending on beam size etc. It can be in the thousands.

That is good to know... I honestly had no idea what kind of money this would entail. Thank you.

You could just reopen the window area. I know people call that old fashioned, but you would not be looking at the wall.

Hi. im in middle of a kitchen redo also. i just opened my entrance way by 20 inches. You can widen it for more open feeling without losing all that cabinet space. By the way….its going to cost a lot of money!

We knocked down our wall when we re-did pir kitchen. We did it ourselves, we were quoted over 2k but this included disposal. Glad we did it ourselves.