You cook your own meals. Your Victorian age predecessor didn't. Thus, your "servant's kitchen" is small, austerely functional, and strangely closed off from the rest of the house. This throws your floor plan off-center, a bad thing, given that you have two children creeping toward teenager-hood and you want nothing more than create a central space to enjoy them before they retract, turtle-like, into the pubescent crysilae of their rooms. What do you do?

Try this. Flip the family room and kitchen. This will provide kitchen access to the dining room and an inviting kitchen / family room suite that is ideally suited for companionable cooking, homework, and relaxing in front of the tube.

Add a rear entry to further increase the space's accessibility, and voila, you've forged a crucible of family togetherness.

Project: Foussard
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