Explanation of the hype

what exactly don’t you understand?

You currently live with an open kitchen, but you will be very glad when you have moved. So you want a closed kitchen. Correct? At the same time, you write that an eat-in kitchen (i.e. an open one) is a must. I see (!) a contradiction there and wonder ...

Of course, in addition to our large cooking/living/dining area, I would have liked a separate living room ("salon"), but the money simply wasn’t enough for that ...

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Of course, in addition to our large kitchen/living/dining area, I would have had a separate living room ("Salon"), but the money just wasn’t enough for that ...

In most floor plans, you see a large living/dining area with a separate kitchen. I actually think that’s wrong. In my opinion, it’s better to have a huge kitchen/dining area on the chocolate side and a small Salon as a living room. Especially since open-plan kitchens no longer differ from living room furniture. I will definitely do it like that in the next house.

In the past, a large kitchen was built where the whole family could eat. With a table and everything. Next to it was a pantry. There was a living room, but it was not used for eating. In some upper-middle-class households, there was even a separate dining room. Then the trend with dining rooms started in the 60s, the kitchen shrank, and there was a pass-through to the dining room. People no longer sat in the kitchen but only prepared food there. The next step was/is: We dispense with the pass-through, even with the partition wall, combining the cooking/dining area with the living room. An open-plan space. For me, this is a wrong development. The ideal is the old solution: living room and dining room for the formal table. In this area stands the Vertigo with display cabinet, where behind glass Holmgaard and Rosenthal please the eye of the beholder. For everyday use, we take the kitchen table. And the kitchen as a room must be sufficiently large for that. Next to it is the other utility area with a sink, with washing machine, freezer chest or cabinet, pantry cabinet. I built that for us on Sunday. From a 202 by 80 by 40 Billy office shelf with two Ottebol doors for it. Super cabinet for under 100,- Karsten

We also put such a Pax from Ikea into the pantry. Nice, cheap and practical. Yeah, right! That junk can't hold anything. Three packs of pasta and a jar of pickles and the shelves bend so much it’s scary. I’ve now ordered a new Tego metal shelf for €420. Ok, it might not look very nice. But even the beverage crates fit in there without any problems.

... where behind glass Holmgaard and Rosenthal delight the viewer's eye. Karsten

And anyway, if at all, then of course Meißner.

, now I understand. I must have expressed it wrongly because for us a "Wohnküche" is pretty much exactly what Karsten describes. That means a large kitchen with an attached pantry/laundry room with its own entrance. This is where everyday life happens here: eating, talking, drinking coffee with a friend, etc. There is also a dining table in the living room, but it is actually only used on holidays or special occasions. I hope it makes more sense this way, that I am happy to have this "Wohnküche" closed off in the new house and not as open to the living room.