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dining room is a bit of a hallway
This is a common problem that I have spent far too long thinking about. Looks like your place is the same as mine (i.e. 15 foot wide terrace). Basically there are two options to avoid the hallway / awkward middle room problem:
- Kitchen in the middle: efficient on space, nice room at the back but you lose the opportunity to have a massive food prep space with island etc
- Central "utility / WC core" with open plan kitchen-diner at the back and slightly enlarged front room. Lose the ability to close off the kitchen but can go more fancy with it. Get a slightly nicer living room at the front (rather than a snug) but most likely it will be dark.
- Kitchen in the middle: efficient on space, nice room at the back but you lose the opportunity to have a massive food prep space with island etc
NickCJ-
We swapped ours round so the dining/table area is at the front where the big bay window is and the living room area is in the middle. The sofas, coffee table and AV stuff seem to give the middle area a stronger "room" identity than the table did.
Our original thinking was we spent all our time at the table surfing/doing hobbies not watching TV so it we should have put place we spend most time where the natural light was. But after we switched we seem to spend more time in the living room area. Turns out we are just troglodytes.
brokenbetty
Yeah, in our case. Living room at front, dining room is a bit of a hallway and the side return and 1m extension can't really accommodate a proper place to sit. Just wondering if having the kitchen in the middle would be a good option. Would probably involve removing a chimney breast so may be unrealistic.
This is when we bought it, but we have taken out the wall between the front room and middle room.