10 ideas and solutions to open the kitchen to the living room

Opening the kitchen to the living room by knocking down a wall is initially all advantages, since in addition to gaining useful meters and a feeling of spaciousness, lighting is also improved, allowing it to penetrate more, without obstacles.

But good planning is required to make the reform a process without headaches, and the hands of a professional. In addition to, of course, being clear about what you want, since there are many ways to open the kitchen to the living room, which will also depend on your preferences, the design and the floor plan of the house.

So that you can get ideas, we have prepared 10 ideas to open the kitchen to the living room, all executed by the Sincro architecture and interior design studio, which planned every detail with great care so that the option of opening the kitchen to the living room was the right one. for each dwelling.

fully open

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

The most effective option, and the one that entails the most radical change, is to tear down the wall or walls that separate the kitchen from the dining room and leave it completely open and integrated into the living room.

In this project, the studio installed a modern and minimalist kitchen with straight lines in matte white to create a feeling of light and elegance.

The furniture in the living room shares an aesthetic with the kitchen to create a sophisticated and balanced space.

Let's see more solutions.

Open and separated by a bar

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

In this four-bedroom house, walls were knocked down and a new layout of the rooms was created, which made it possible to gain enough space to install a bar in the kitchen, now open to the living room, which expands the work and storage space, at the same time that separates and defines the kitchen space.

Between the lounge area and the kitchen, the dining area was installed. All open and very bright.

separated by half a wall

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

The advantages are the same. The kitchen and the living room become brighter and visually larger, they share the same space, but each area maintains greater privacy.

Open and separated by a structure

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

To provide some independence in the living room and kitchen on this floor, the studio designed a central structure clad in wood planks to divide both spaces while remaining connected and open.

The structure also contains cabinets on the kitchen side, while on the living room side it acts as a television cabinet.

With this solution, storage space is gained, the two rooms are separated and an original element is added to the home.

Open and separated by a custom cabinet

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

In this other project, the team turned the kitchen into the protagonist of the house.

A modern and open peninsula kitchen, with elegant gloss black finishes and warm wood that is separated from the rest of the space by a custom-made piece of furniture, in which cabinets were installed in the part that overlooks the dining room to provide storage space and the television area.

Open kitchen but separated by the dining room

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

If the floor plan and layout of the home allow it, the kitchen can be left open, making it gain meters and light, and the dining area installed between the living room and the kitchen itself, so that both spaces, living room and kitchen, have some privacy.

Open and separated by the office. Together but not mixed

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

By knocking down walls and planning a new distribution in the reform of this house, meters and light were gained both in the kitchen and in the living room, being able to install a bar that acts as a dividing wall between the living room and the kitchen, but which also it is the element that connects the two spaces, making them both perfectly integrated.

Open it and install some dividing panel

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

For those who do not like the kitchen and living room to be together, but need the inherent advantages of this type of reform, this is your solution.

The kitchen is opened to the living room and a panel is installed, which can be made of wood, like the one that the studio designed and installed in this house, or glass enclosures with metal panels, which also let in light.

This option allows us at the same time to camouflage the kitchen as much as we want, since the panel that divides it can be designed more or less large, and maintain the advantages of an open kitchen.

Communicate the kitchen and the dining room, without opening it

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

Another option to open the kitchen to the living room is to make a hole in the partition, connecting both spaces, as the team did on this floor, but without opening it completely to the living room.

In this way, the kitchen remains open or semi-open, gaining light and accessibility, but both spaces maintain their total independence.

Large doors to the kitchen

Reform and interior design by Estudio Sincro

It is basically the same option as the previous one, but here the privacy of both spaces is reinforced by installing a double sliding door, with which the kitchen can be disconnected from the rest of the space by closing the doors, and keep it integrated and accessible with the doors open. .

As we can see, there are many ways to open a kitchen to the living room. It all depends on what we really need, the floor plan of our home and the resources available, but what can never be lacking are the hands of a good professional who adequately projects the reform for us.

Thanks to Estudio Sincro for offering the opportunity to publish some of their works.

If you have been left wanting more, here you can see 20 ideas to integrate a small kitchen into the living room