| Bob did some quick sketching of the idea of swapped kitchen/family with eating area in the kitchen. He preserved the definition of two rooms/two functions. As he said: it was quick and he had not put a lot of thoughts into whether there should be walls between or not. |  |
I decided to play around with the "alrum" idea, staying within the parameter of using the 4 bays for kitchen&family with space for eating in kitchen:
A: Make the family room and kitchen be one big room; use the west wall for floor to ceiling cabinets, and provide an eating area in connection with a large multi-function island. |  |
B: Make a pantry in the west-most bay, and provide an eating area in connection with a large multi-function island |  |
C: Use the west-most bay to create 2 niches into which the most messy part of the kitchen stuff goes, leaving one "clean" profile for the open kitchen. The island could be the multi-function as in idea A and B, or just a large cooking and food prep island. |  |
