Where is your kitchen?

Technically, mine is now in the front/side, although we use it to access the back yard, LOL! When first built, the kitchen ran from the front porch to the back porch, along one side of the house, but there have been additions put on since that now have a hall, bathroom, and mudroom/laundry between the kitchen and the back yard. However, you access the back yard through that mudroom, which is really only a few steps from the kitchen. So I think of our kitchen as being "in the back"of the house, even though it's technically not.  If I'm working in the kitchen, I can easily look down the short hall to the back door in the mudroom.  And I like that because people who know us always use that back door when they stop by.

My absolute ideal is a kitchen that is truly in the back of the house, with a window that overlooks the backyard. Oddly enough I've only actually had that set up in any place I have lived for about 7 years of my life!  If I were to build a house, I would like a kitchen in the back corner of the house, with a mudroom coming off the side of the kitchen, so that the mudroom was also in the rear of the house. But I prefer old homes to new construction, PLUS too many choices pretty much paralyze me, so I highly, highly doubt that I would ever build a house.


I will say, that a kitchen that runs from the front to the actual back would be pretty great, because I do love sitting at the kitchen table and looking out through the front porch to the road in the morning.   I just miss being able to look out into the back yard from the kitchen.   (Even though I haven't had that in 30+ years.  )

I’m traditional and like my “formal areas at the front if the house. That said, my kitchen is now exposed after our remodel. My house is not huge and my options were limited. We opted for more kitchen space since that’s where we live. My house is a square with a vestibule (winter lifesaver). Once you walk in the stairs are directly in front of you. To the right is our living room which runs the length of the house, so 22’x12’. To the left is the same size space that is dining room in the front, kitchen at the back. They used to be separate rooms but we removed the wall between so we could add a big island for more storage and counter space. The thing I don’t like about the big space is that noise carries not being blocked by the wall. The back door and stairs to the basement are under the stairs going up. It’s a very efficient design.

In the back middle (between the dining room and the family room.)

Our last house it was in the front and I hated it, although it was convenient when unloading groceries and taking out the trash because it was less than 10 steps from my driveway...

My kitchen is in the front which is our best view. I can see the mountain when I am washing dishes. Kitchen is right next to the garage. I do wish I'd put in a mud room, not so much for mud but for all the junk that seems to end up on the kitchen counters rather than going further into the house where it belongs.

Back center of house. Location doesn’t really bother me other than how it integrates with the layout choices made when the house was built.

My main complaint is the stove “feature wall” means it is is 10 feet across from the sink, right in the traffic pattern. Horrible with small children and pets when you are trying to use the oven door or carry boiling hot pasta.

And the amount of openings limits useful cabinet space - you can access it from the garage, basement, front hall, dining room AND family room. Too many doors/openings!

Toward the middle of an open floor plan

Walk in door, down the hall, stairs and living room on the right. Kitchen and dining room on the left.

We bought, didn't have built, our home which is an open floor plan. Our kitchen is in the front by the door and it looks out over the front yard. I don't care for the the kitchen by the door, however, there are other things that bother me more. This was our first home and we didn't really expect to stay in it. We probably will, but we don't have people over so the kitchen really isn't an issue for our lifestyle.

I've lived in so many houses. A good kitchen location is convenient for unloading groceries, has a door to your patio where you grill and entertain, and is hidden from the view from the front door.

It's in the back, with the sink window overlooking the backyard. We sit on a hill, so the view of the neighborhood is really beautiful. It's actually what sold me on this house.

We have what is called a center hall Dutch colonial. If you go through the double front doors there is the formal living room on one side and the formal dining room on the other.

Then you can either go upstairs or down the hall to the back of the house which has the downstairs master/guest room and bathroom on one side and the den on the other.

The kitchen is on the far side of the den and dining room and it runs the width of the house (front to back) with the window over the sink looking out to the front and the large window in the eat in area looks out over the patio/backyard.

The kitchen has its own door to the outside (we have a smaller side porch off of the formal front porch) and has entry doors into both the den and dining room as well as the utility/laundry room on the other.

When you walk into my house you walk into one big area that is the living room, kitchen and dining room. I kind of hate that there aren't more defined spaces but whatever.

The house I grew up in we all used the kitchen's sliding glass door as the front door so I'm very accustomed to walking into a house and walking into a kitchen. My grandma's house was that way as well.