Explanation of the hype

and you're worried about microwaves and cancer?

If you cook like that, or don't have a functioning extractor hood, then your dear husband is sitting in a nice fine dust cloud. And since the room is small, the concentration is higher than with an open kitchen including a functioning extractor hood.

With stuffy air, normal cooking odors are probably meant, and usually even a hood can't extract 100% ...

I agree with kaho, the smell of food in the living room disappears quickly, since it is usually eaten [emoji14]
In the kitchen, during cooking and depending on ventilation, it can sometimes smell like frying or, in kaho's case, steamed vegetables

What honestly discouraged me from planning an open kitchen / living room / dining area is the fact that I always have to tidy up the kitchen again right away to make it cozy. So I am anything but a good cook. And when there are guests at Christmas and you cook and carve more than 2 courses, I can never manage to clean everything up at the same time. I don't have that much dishwasher capacity either. I'm always glad when I can simply close the door and just start the festive meal.

You save a wall. Good. Plus an interior door, good. In return, you have a kitchen island standing in the living room with faux leather bar stools in front of it, like in the GZSZ studio. Then there’s! that huge exhaust hood hanging in the living room, you look at the glossy foil-covered kitchen cabinets, which scream bright red against our cognac leather and the old teak table. Even the wife’s old oak cabinets, originally inherited from grandma with glass windows, don’t fit at all with Alno. Nope, kitchen in the living room, then I also demand the workbench and the vise to be integrated into the living ambience. If the woman is allowed to eye the Thermomix, the man can also keep an eye on the jigsaw... along with the Würth Glue and Seal workshop calendar, every month new and busty with a cartridge in hand...[emoji1]Karste

... I also demand that the workbench and the vice be integrated into the living environment. If the woman is allowed to admire the Thermomix, the man should also be allowed to keep an eye on the jigsaw... along with the Würth glue and seal workshop calendar, every month newly busty with a cartridge in hand...[emoji1]Karste

What now? You’re supposed to cook! Or what did you think?

You save a wall. Good. Plus an interior door, good. In return, you have this kind of kitchen island standing in the living room with faux leather bar stools in front of it, like in the GZSZ studio. Then in the living room! there’s this huge extractor hood hanging, you look at glossy foil-covered kitchen cabinets that stand out screaming red against our cognac leather and the old teak table.

Open does not automatically mean kitchen island; it also does not require any kind of faux leather stools.

We have an open U to the "dining area" without that fuss. Besides, the kitchen also matches the color of our old solid wood display cabinet that stands just a meter away from the kitchen area.

No no, kitchen in the living room, then I also demand integrating the workbench and the vise into the living atmosphere. If the woman is allowed to look at the Thermomix, the man can also keep an eye on the jigsaw... along with the Würth Glue and Seal workshop calendar, every month newly busty with a cartridge in hand...Karste

Haven’t seen that calendar for a long time, have you?
I can’t even remember when there were ever tools pictured on the pages.

But I am probably too young for the idea that the kitchen is only a place for women.

don’t fit Alno at all

And I thought you went to Ikea?