Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: How are your great room and kitchen connected?

[Robert Heinich (robert]

> > At 02:01 PM 3/11/2008, Kristen wrote:
> > Does your kitchen completely open to the great room/dining room? What works
> > or doesn't work about this?
It sounds like our kitchen is like Shadowlake Village.  Our kitchen  
also significantly open with a large open passthru counters, cabinets  
that can be opened on the kitchen side and the great room side and one  
door.

Having cabinets that can be opened on the great room is very handy to  
get glasses and plates without adding to the kitchen traffic.   
Sometimes the cooks need to adjust how they prepare the meal as the  
noise from the kitchen can disturb a meeting.


> > Are you able to completely close off the kitchen from the great room/dining
> > room? What works and doesn't work about this?
Yes but noise is still a problem.

One day we will do an extreme makeover on the kitchen and then perhaps  
we could address the noise problem.


-Robert Heinich
 Eno Commons Cohousing Neighborhood
 www.enocommons.org
 Durham, NC
 where with the extra hour of sun in the afternoon with daylight saving time,
 we can watch the kids play from the deck of the Common House.