Kitchen layout conundrum - combining kitchen and living room

2 months ago

First photo is current layout with no measurements. The top of the kitchen area has the breakfast table bur rarely use.

The "FP" is a fireplace and as it says, the walls are brick. Don't want to touch the bearing wall and leave the Sitting and Dining Room intact.

Trying to figure out the best lay out if I remove the wall between the Kitchen and Living room and create a big kitchen with breakfast area that I'd actually use. Would also remove the brick in the kitchen as that houses the oven/microwave

Have a 48" rangetop I just bought so that needs to be included but currently searching for fridge/freezer or may just use the current 36". Wanting plenty of counterspace for prep and possibly a sitting area that is built in. Was looking at making a large island countertop where the wall was and moving the sink to the island with seating on the other side but no good place to put the oven, fridge and rangetop without closing up windows. Now thinking of using the entire south wall of the living room and having a built in breakfast nook in the top left corner of the current kitchen.

I am decent at design but this layout is killing me as can't figure best use of two rooms to make a dream kitchen. Would live to hear any thoughts/advice/ideas

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Yvonne Martin
2 months ago
Tell us why you don't use the breakfast area. From the plans it looks as if it would/could be very pleasant. Does the peninsula intrude too much?
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rockybird
2 months ago
I’d look at how much a beam would cost to remove some or all of the sitting and dining walls.
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wolterjwb
Original Author
2 months ago
Yvonne, the peninsula has upper cabinets that are on a soffit so come down extremely low, making the breakfast area seem almost as if its a separate room.
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thevm
2 months ago
I'm all onboard with opening the kitchen to the living room, but I think I'd keep the breakfast area exactly in the same area. Just remove the upper cabinets that block it off from the kitchen. Can you put an island where the wall once was located?
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wolterjwb
Original Author
2 months ago
thevm - that was my initial thought, having a peninsula come off the wall between the dining room and kitchen roughly the same length as the current wall between the kitchen and living room and possibly having it two tier with the side in the living room being higher to have seating while moving the sink to the island. The only issue is I don't have enough room to put everything else without covering up a window. The breakfast nook would have the double oven cabinet which would cover up that window. The breakfast nook could move over to the fireplace area but I'm still limited in space in the current kitchen due to windows.
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