Floor plan design for bungalow with basement - 140 sqm - slight slope

Know both. Both are extremely inconvenient. I neither want a closed kitchen nor a toilet over the yard.
Open kitchens aren't that new. They used to be called eat-in kitchens. They had a dining table, a canapé, and the only radio and television in the house. The parlor was dusted more often than used.

But that's not an open kitchen, it's an eat-in kitchen. A kitchen is a workspace for me. And the question "who cooks?" in our family is often answered by whoever needs a break from the child who is destroying the living room out of afternoon tiredness. :)

It was called a living kitchen, but life took place in that room. The living room was almost never used, if it existed at all. Homework, cooking, eating, visitors, television—all were in the living kitchen. The function remained the same; only the term changed. Living rooms were unused rooms in my childhood. This only changed in the 1980s when new houses had living, dining, and cooking in separate rooms.

But you are comparing a poor/peasant lifestyle with a modern middle-class to upper-class lifestyle. The middle and upper classes have not lived in the kitchen. And the smell of food, the clatter of cooking, the required cooking utensils, and dirty dishes stayed in the kitchen and did not spread towards the sofa, TV, carpets, and the open stairwell. A Bora extractor in the stove does not remove cooking fumes from the oven (pizza, cake, roast, casserole?) from the living area. Additionally, the sound-amplifying acoustics due to the tendency to lay tiles throughout the living area and to forgo curtains...

We had a "wohnküche" in the terraced house - kitchen open to the living and dining area, the living room moved upstairs, instead a couch on the ground floor... that did not prove successful at all. Constantly going downstairs in the evening to get something. Lounging in the meantime was also not really right... cooking-sofa, which was neglected. Open-plan should be planned so that the view from the sofa does not fall into a working kitchen that looks like one. Anyone who is totally messy or only has loud machines running should build closed off. A machine, mill, or chopper doesn't run for half an hour, you can briefly coordinate or communicate. There is whisper quiet on the property. Odors, even with us it seldom smells bad, rather it smells pleasantly of spices, they also travel through the house when doors have to be opened. Fish, cabbage, and fondue go everywhere. A short cross-ventilation helps, but not everything. Even not with closed kitchens.

But that's not an open kitchen, it's a living kitchen. For me, a kitchen is a workspace. And the question "who cooks?" in our family is often answered by who needs a break from the child who is tearing apart the living room out of afternoon tiredness. :)

But that's only a short period in life. In 2, 3, 4 years, the child will play alone or with friends in their room, Paw Patrol will be out, the child will watch TV in their own room, and you will arrange your life according to your needs again... I wouldn't plan the house according to that phase if I want to live in it for maybe 40 to 50 years.

A kitchen is a workspace for me. And the question "who cooks?" in our family is often answered by whoever needs a break from the child, who, due to afternoon tiredness, is wrecking the living room.

Ok, but that rather describes intra-family and thus different situations. Do you really have to lock REiuch away from the child, or do you prefer to flee to the kitchen to work? :D Even that is only temporary.......

who, due to afternoon tiredness, is wrecking the living room.

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But you are comparing a poor/peasant lifestyle with today's middle-class upper-class lifestyle. The middle and upper classes did not live in the kitchen.

That's true. But I think back then it was mostly due to larger families and the topic of multi-generational living. I know people from the so-called upper middle class who like to have an eat-in kitchen, especially in stylish old buildings in the city where you often find that.

the necessary cooking utensils and dirty dishes stayed in the kitchen and did not spread towards the sofa, TV, carpets, and into the open stairwell.

Well.....that depends on the individual whether the cold pizza ends up hanging on the stair railing or the spaghetti on the antler on the living room wall.

Also the sound-amplifying acoustics due to the tendency to lay tiles throughout the living area and to do without curtains...

I understand that, on the other hand; you have to like it or not, it should suit your own life situation. In such a case, I would definitely have a small, separate "media room"! You are describing exactly what I often point out. People should build exactly WHAT fits their life, and because individual lives are different, I would expect much more diversity in the details.