Making Homes Super-Roomy ; the Dining Room has Gone, Now the Kitchen Is Giving Way to the All- in-One Super-Room

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FOLLOWING the death of the dining room comes the rapid demise of the kitchen. Super-rooms - large open-plan spaces where families can cook, eat and relax together - are entering the mainstream of British house design. For some time now, forward-thinking architects have been challenging the traditional idea of the house as a box with rigidly defined rooms.

Modern lifestyles demand flexible interiors. Space is an increasingly precious commodity and wall-less rooms that integrate with each other are a clever and welcome design solution.

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Making Homes Super-Roomy ; the Dining Room has Gone, Now the Kitchen Is Giving Way to the All- in-One Super-Room

Surrey's stockbroker belt, where old habits die hard, is the unlikely location for this breakthrough. A scheme of 15 detached homes in Walton-on-Thames features houses with 660sq ft superrooms occupying two-thirds of the entire ground floor area.

Admittedly, the period-style redbrick facades of ...

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