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Kitchen renovation, here we come! How to combine old and modern?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 557076" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>We live in the cold climate. It is easier to keep warm an open space than several smaller rooms. So in the older times our houses were mostly one big space. Idea of several rooms started to get more popular but still in late 19th's and quite a bit after that, houses were built to have that one big room and then smaller rooms in other part. And in fact now the idea is coming back. Many of our new popular house designs again have a combined kitchen, dining and living room, but nowadays the chimney and fireplace tends to be middle of it all and other rooms being around it or in upstairs/down stairs. In our house this big room is in the other end of the house, chimney middle of the house and other side has some smaller rooms and one bigger room, bedrooms are upstairs. In old times this big kitchen was where people normally were, other side of the house was more for 'showing', everyday life was more focused to this kitchen end of the house. And some ways that is how it still is. No one spends much time in our official living room, kitchen space is the heart of our home.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the picture. Yes, kitchen island seems to work well in it. And from the same site that picture is from I found this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]258[/ATTACH] It's not an island, but because of the door mine would need to be. But I really like how the space has been divided to kitchen, dining and living area in this. I just have to find out, how I could get that awesome light. Luckily the room is high, so some kind of lowered ceiling and modern lighting solution could be possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 557076, member: 14557"] We live in the cold climate. It is easier to keep warm an open space than several smaller rooms. So in the older times our houses were mostly one big space. Idea of several rooms started to get more popular but still in late 19th's and quite a bit after that, houses were built to have that one big room and then smaller rooms in other part. And in fact now the idea is coming back. Many of our new popular house designs again have a combined kitchen, dining and living room, but nowadays the chimney and fireplace tends to be middle of it all and other rooms being around it or in upstairs/down stairs. In our house this big room is in the other end of the house, chimney middle of the house and other side has some smaller rooms and one bigger room, bedrooms are upstairs. In old times this big kitchen was where people normally were, other side of the house was more for 'showing', everyday life was more focused to this kitchen end of the house. And some ways that is how it still is. No one spends much time in our official living room, kitchen space is the heart of our home. Thanks for the picture. Yes, kitchen island seems to work well in it. And from the same site that picture is from I found this: [ATTACH=full]258[/ATTACH] It's not an island, but because of the door mine would need to be. But I really like how the space has been divided to kitchen, dining and living area in this. I just have to find out, how I could get that awesome light. Luckily the room is high, so some kind of lowered ceiling and modern lighting solution could be possible. [/QUOTE]
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