While an open kitchen should flow into other rooms in your home ... usually means the room is opening up to an eat-in area, dining room or living room, why not take the design outside.

Open floor plans that make it easy to move through primary living and entertaining areas have been popular for decades. Open ...

There are no walls or doors, allowing people to see the person cooking in the kitchen. The open design leads directly into the living/dining room. Even if there's a sense of openness, the island ...

Pauro, who is the founder of design-build firm Rebel Builders, reconfigured the layout, moving the kitchen into the dining room, where there was plenty of space for a island where everyone could ...