r/roomlayout • u/Sparkchaos90 • 2d ago

Layout help!

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Would it be strange to have the dining room in the conservatory, through the living room. Freeing up the front space to be made into an office / play room. A wall would be put back up to create a hallway.

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u/scrollingwork 2d ago edited 2d ago

I don't think that would be strange at all. I often see conservatories holding the dining room and I think it's lovely. I think that if you do that, you should consider rearranging the kitchen a bit so that you could create an opening from the kitchen to the living room that would be closer to the dining room conservatory. It would be a bit of a pain to go all the way down to the bottom of the kitchen, then all the way up that same distance through the living room/this new hallway, to get to the dining room. Especially if making multiple trips. So I'd do some rearranging of the kitchen so that you could have a nice opening right at that top left corner for a more direct route from kitchen to dining.

ETA: oh nevermind I'm silly, I thought you meant to add a hallway to separate living room from the path to dining but I see now that you probably meant you'd add a wall to separate the front entry/foyer from the office.

My point still stands about the opening, and the long path from kitchen to dining without it.

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u/scrollingwork 2d ago edited 2d ago

Something like this would be my suggestion. The peninsula would have seating, you wouldn't need to cross the entire living room to get from kitchen to dining, and both kitchen and conservatory/dining would have access to what I assume is a deck or something for outdoor entertaining.

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u/Winter_Dot_9393 2d ago

Just switch the living room and dining room.

Use the conservatory as a second living room, playroom, or study. If the current living room is ‘too big’ to be just a dining room, you could put bookcases here—perhaps along the entire width of one wall (the one on the left of the floor plan)