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title: Envision the Perfect Transition to Your Kitchen
description: Want to create the ideal transition into your kitchen? It's important that visible living spaces benefit from continuity & style, here's how to make it happen!
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# [Envision the Perfect Transition to Your Kitchen](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/envision-the-perfect-transition-to-your-kitchen)

 Written by [Kitchen Magic](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/author/kitchen-magic) | Oct 24, 2017

Interested in creating the perfect transition into your kitchen space? Open floor plans moved past the trend-stage, and have become a foundation of interior design. The importance of all visible living spaces benefiting from both continuity and style has become undenyably apparent.

Even if you aren't interested in going wide-open, we have transitions-into-the-transition, so to speak, to maintain an open concept with functional flow.

 

 

## Points to Ponder Before Wielding the Sledgehammer

Before you make any permanent decisions (or make that celebratory bash with the sledgehammer), consider:

- *Your budget.* The [kitchen budget](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/how-to-create-a-realistic-kitchen-remodeling-budget) will affect how many - or how big - your structural changes can be, especially when changing load bearing items.
- *Will you need more light?* If you're opening the kitchen to an interior space, or one without much [natural lighting](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/6-ways-to-tap-into-natural-light-and-brighten-up-your-kitchen-space) - such as a dining room - you may find you need to tap into more natural light and/or enhanced light sources.
- *Do you have kiddos?* Or pets? This might shape the design, ensuring you can [keep an eye on them during homework](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/how-a-kitchen-homework-space-can-expand-your-child-s-education), playtime and/or dinner prep.
- *Are there load bearing issues?* No point in blasting through a wall if the entire roof will collapse upon you. [Review architectural plans](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/kitchen-layouts-by-architectural-style-craftsman-home) to see what - if anything is load bearing. If so, you can work around them - adding beams, supports or columns - to create the look you want.

Expanding a doorway, removing the middle-portion of a wall, creating a pony-wall or converting a smaller door into an inviting archway are all options when structural issues present an insurmountable problem.

 

## Ideas For Opening Kitchens Into Other Living Spaces

Here are some suggestions and examples for [opening your kitchen up to other living spaces](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/are-open-floor-plans-a-thing-of-the-past).

 

### Use French doors to give yourself options

French doors can be closed - [with color-coordinated curtains](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/treat-your-kitchen-windows-as-you-would-want-them-to-treat-you) - when you want privacy and opened when you desire the long-view.

### Create an elegant archway

Artistically-rounded corners aren't used as much as they should be anymore. While you don't have to [go as wood-adorned](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/8-wood-detail-options-that-are-right-for-traditional-and-transitional-designs) as the example below, you can arch the entire transition between two spaces, or expand a smaller doorway/entrance and create an arched-effect for height and panache.

 

### Remove the whole wall

[If budget allows](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/7-reasons-kitchen-remodels-go-over-budget), you can break down entire walls - even if it means installing a support beam to take up the demolished slack.

 

### Downsize from whole to half

If you aren't sold on the fully-open aesthetic, choose a semi-open concept instead. There are multiple ways to accomplish this look.

 

You can remove the wall's top-half, creating a visual and physical pass-thru. This area is customizable to incorporate a breakfast bar with stools or a [small, kitchen office](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/consider-adding-a-mini-office-or-message-center-in-your-kitchen-remodel). Or, go ahead and remove the wall but add a kitchen island with [a raised bar, or a kitchen table](https://blog.kitchenmagic.com/blog/the-kitchen-island-vs-the-kitchen-table) and chairs, to create a border between both spaces.

 

The team at [Kitchen Magic](https://www.kitchenmagic.com) looks forward to helping you create perfect transitions throughout your entire kitchen design process. Contact us to start dreaming and scheming.

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