The right ingredients for creating an open and functional space

Kya deLongchamps gives ten tips to blending your kitchen and dining area in an aesthetic way, so that guests and family are not excluded from the action.

The close configuration of kitchen and dining space is something we Irish have embraced with a passion. Perhaps it channels something older and deeper when the fireside would have nestled alongside the farmhouse or cottage table in most homes in the country.

Throwing down the walls of the traditional kitchen allow not only an open, refreshing aesthetic, but the joys of socialising alongside the cook as they work —it just all makes such great sense.