Homeowners can increase the footprint of your kitchen without breaking through the exterior walls of the home. Deciding to remove walls within the home to increase the square footage of the kitchen can include making the dining room apart of the kitchen expansion. In today’s culture, the dining room is a seldom-used space for many families and stands empty collecting dust until the next holiday event. Does yours stay empty most of the time? You can utilize rooms in your home to increase the size of a family gathering space, like the kitchen, much more economically than constructing an addition.

Our Eldersburg MD homeowner chose to increase the footprint of their kitchen by removing the wall to the adjacent dining room. The man of the house was also the chef and he wanted to prepare his delicious meals in an efficiently laid out kitchen with plenty of countertop workspace. The homeowners’ sizeable family gathered often for meals, so a dining room was necessary for their lifestyle. Owings’s solution was to remodel the living room open to the original dining room into the new dining room. The removal of the adjacent dining room wall enlarged the kitchen by 121 square feet and enabled the construction of a larger island. This kitchen dining room expansion provided room for the addition of a commercial size Wolf stove along with many more cabinets and counter space.
Our family chef chose a layout that would also enable him to move through the kitchen with ease and planned for the refrigerator placement and an additional trashcan at the end of the island. This enabled the family to move through daily functions without interrupting the chef in meal preparation. Their original kitchen plan hemmed the kitchen in by a peninsula and trapped everyone in the same area at the same time. Not an efficient layout for this cook and his family which is what motivated the remodel. The home was a relatively spacious one so adding to the footprint was not necessary and this dining room conversion was just the fix. Many homeowners find that staying within the footprint of their present home is doable and most definitely more affordable than constructing an addition.