Open kitchen: regret or the ultimate experience?

I hate open kitchens. Like, really. I want to be able to work in a kitchen but please not have to look at fruit bowls, kettles, toasters, etc. from the sofa. The trend of making all these things invisible for a hell of a lot of money until the kitchen matches the beige grey black lacquered TV wall sofa lounge combo, I die of boredom. We have a 22 sqm living kitchen and next to it a separate room as a living room. That way you don’t have to wipe kitchen fumes off the piano. And the dog bowl is far enough away and doesn’t have to fit into a design concept.

And, to still have a more "official and enclosed" area,

You can also use loose room dividers:

I cannot compare a Bauhaus or similar with Sanssouci or Schönbrunn.

OT: Regarding the openness of the kitchen, yes ;) At least the Masters' Houses in Dessau also have closed kitchens, in fact even with an extra workroom. Today's open kitchens, by contrast, are precisely due to the fact that there is no longer kitchen staff who should work invisibly, but rather to integrate cooking into the lives of the residents.

Today’s open kitchens are precisely due to the fact that there is no kitchen staff left to work invisibly, but rather to integrate cooking into the lives of the residents.

You let your partner out?:eek:


:p

Clearly a closed kitchen. We lived with an open kitchen ourselves for a good 10 years and on every vacation in DK we have one, and I just find it annoying. What bothers me is not the supposed mess or the smells. What really annoys me is, for example, when I’m sitting comfortably with a coffee and a book/watching a movie in the living room and just then my husband or the teens are starving and turn on the stove, sizzling noise and clattering of plates included, open kitchen, I’m honestly annoyed depending on my mood – closed kitchen, door closed and everyone has their peace ^^ Our kitchen is big enough that we can cook with friends or hang out together, but if you don’t want that, I close the door very well. Interestingly, in our circle of friends/family everyone is also cured of open kitchens, only one family consciously chose an open kitchen again when building their new house. So everyone does what’s right for them, you just have to be happy with it yourself, no matter what others say.

But it really annoys me, for example, when I'm sitting comfortably in the living room with a coffee and a book/or watching a movie and just then my husband or the teenagers are starving and turn on the stove, sizzling noise and clattering of plates included, open kitchen, honestly, depending on the day's mood, I'm annoyed - closed kitchen, door shut and everyone has their peace ^^

That may apply in vacation mode. In everyday life, very few can live like that so that everyone could annoy each other during the day ;)