Kitchen: closed or open? What room layout?

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What I see in the pictures and also see among acquaintances is that the TV can be switched almost without a remote control.
I don’t understand how you can have 60 sqm and then have a sofa corner like in a 2-room apartment?
Overall, I find it visually uncozy. But only visually. Living there for a month...

I found the design of the house (terraced house?) by Willo good and sensible from the start. The seating area doesn’t seem too small to me now either, although yes, it is small. But sufficient for watching TV [emoji2]
I think the color scheme makes it a bit uncozy – white is often a bit bare and stark, no matter how big the room is [emoji6]

Maybe it's simply the proportions that make it look small to me... No idea. However, we also have a different usage behavior. Our dining table is only used when we have guests. As a family, we eat in the dining nook in the kitchen and otherwise we sit on the sofa. There, the big one can build his pillow forts and my wife can lie down better with the little one. But as I said: trying it out by living there would be enlightening.

I am more a friend of open spaces. In the evening, we move back and forth between the sofa and the kitchen, any door would be disturbing. I can look diagonally from one corner of the house, from my sofa, into the other, the kitchen, thanks to the square semi-detached house floor plan. That also disciplines you to tidy up the kitchen before you devote yourself to the evening activity.

Open all-in-one room (approx. 52 sqm) and we never wanted it any other way. The sofa and armchair are around the corner. The table and the kitchen are our central place. I hate it when dishes and stuff stay around long after cooking. For me, it’s even the case that the kitchen is completely clean when the food is just placed on the table, all without stress and hustle. I like to chat with friends and such while cooking and don’t like having to say "I’m going to the kitchen now, does anyone want to come with me so I’m not standing there all alone?". I also find the view strange that it shouldn’t smell like food when I cook extensively for friends. It’s allowed to smell and be fragrant!

Of course it may smell like delicious food. Before and while eating. Not afterwards.

Open all-in-one room (about 52 sqm) and we never wanted it any other way. Sofa and armchair are around the corner. The table and the kitchen are our central place. I hate it when dishes and stuff are left standing around after cooking for a long time. For me, it's even the case that the kitchen is already completely clean when the food is just being placed on the table, all without stress and hectic I like to chat with friends and so while cooking and don't want to have to say "I'm going to the kitchen now, would someone like to come with me so I'm not standing there alone?". I also find it strange that some think it should not smell like food when I cook elaborate meals for friends. It may smell and have a fragrance!

I don't understand the arguments against separation here, because in a 30 sqm kitchen I can do all that too, only that I/others could additionally go to another room for more quiet/less smells/more cozy light etc. And from the cooking island you don’t talk while frying, bubbling and with the extractor hood on to the people 10m further away on the couch anymore.... Especially not when it’s around the corner. Here a partition makes no big difference, without extending walking distances.
My kitchen is tidy either way, so that wouldn’t be an argument for separation. But for example, after eating you can change rooms and no longer enjoy your drink/evening in cooking smells. I also can’t imagine having everything cleaned up with elaborate dishes. At least I need more than just a pot and a pan that fit into the dishwasher for that. And I don’t want to just pile everything on the plate and then wash immediately...

Furthermore, but that depends on the person, I would miss walls and storage space. That way I have two more for cupboards/sideboard/dresser etc. At least in our place there are toys in the kitchen and living room at the moment, which I don’t want to constantly carry up and down. But I also have a large office on the ground floor, which is still so full of work stuff, paperwork, PC, printer/copier etc that there is no storage space for the kids, but not everyone has that.