Dining table in a small kitchen

Hello, we are still in the planning phase, and I would like to benefit from the experiences of people who have already gone through this.

A very central point in our considerations is the topic of the kitchen. Practically all ideas – drafts that we find in floor plans envision rather small kitchens, open, sometimes under ten square meters – with the dining area in the living room, which of course is sufficiently large.

Now, personally, I already don’t like the concept of the open kitchen. I want a closed one. And I want the possibility to have a dining table in the kitchen. It must accommodate 4 people. This dining nook doesn’t have to be large or spacious. But I want the possibility that we can have breakfast in the kitchen, so that I don’t have the living room in chaos every morning after eating with two small children.

But for that, a kitchen with 10 sqm probably won’t be enough.

If you have a dining table in the kitchen, how big is it or how big is your entire kitchen? I’m also happy to be inspired by photos.

Or am I totally overestimating the possibility of being able to eat in the kitchen?

Then you should maybe also think about a concept that separates the living room and keeps eating/cooking together, and then immediately with a proper table.

Eating/cooking preferably also on the terrace... in summer for grilling with short distances and as an extended living space, children come from the garden and want to drink, you yourself want to keep an eye on the children while preparing food, etc.

Kitchen I would also like one with a view of the garden. A design from the GU we favor would also allow that, the kitchen would be about 12 sqm here. Is 12 sqm enough for a kitchen and a small table with 4 chairs?

Dining table with 8 chairs 11 sqm (2.9x3.8). We have kitchen and dining room together 28 sqm - is pleasantly spacious.

8 seats, that would be too many for me in the kitchen. What I have in mind is more like a small table, bistro style, with 4 chairs. So that you can quickly have breakfast there in the morning, and that the children can eat something there together at noon...

Our neighbors have the Maxime 300 with a partition wall between the kitchen and dining room. This gives them a spacious cooking area of about 16/17 sqm instead of just under 12. You enter through the door directly onto the large table with 4 seats. Behind it, there was still space for a sideboard. The rest was a two-wing kitchen with access to a separate terrace. Ideal for a family that likes to work a bit more chaotically in the kitchen while the guests sit in the elegant living room. There is also enough space to pull the table further into the room to create room for 6-8 children while the parents occupy the dining area in the living room.