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Front door entry right into kitchen..looking for kitchen layout advice
Comments (14)If you want an entry area, put up a wall and have one. We have a home now where someone knocked out the wall between the nice entry and the living room and we basically put the wall back with a shoe bench and shelf arrangement (freestanding because we didn’t want to do construction work) because it just flows better that way. We also just looked at another house which we decided not to go for after much deliberation in part because if we opened it up to get much needed space, we’d end up with a big box with the front door entering right into everything, like a small apartment layout. Houses, especially houses with kids and lots of visitors, need some way to control the flow of traffic and direct people to where they should take off coats and boots and what have you. If you have room for a mud room, great, but if not - entry area is a necessity, IMO. And people are going to be beyond bored with HGTV style everything probably sooner rather than later - next year or the year after it’ll be some other designer and they will be putting walls up because everyone is sick of open plan and always being on display while cooking. If this is your forever home then do what you like and what feels good to you, not what’s popular on HGTV. (If you were going to flip the house then I might be saying something different.) Personally, if my front door were that close to my kitchen, I’d really really really want some kind of wall for privacy. Who wants all your mid-meal cooking mess to be on display to anyone who comes to the door?...See Morekitchen layout advice?
Comments (1)I would put the DW to the right of the sink, out of the prep space, and put the trash pull-out next to the range. Is the tiny sink next to the range a mistake on the plan? On the fridge wall, I'd use a side-loading pantry to the left of the fridge, to keep landing space to the right. Items on the shallower shelves will be more accessible than in the narrow pantry. Use an 18" drawer base to the right. You have 84" of cabinetry on the island, so the top will be larger by the depth of the overhangs--at least 1" on the sides without seating. Will you have seating? One side, or two? Seating overhang should be a minimum of 15" for comfort at counter height. The upper cabinet to the right of the range hood looks fine....See MoreLooking for kitchen layout advice
Comments (26)Something to consider is whether you really want a tall pantry cupboard. I have one and find it too deep to be really useful. If I ever re-do my kitchen cupboards it's the only thing I would remove, and I'd replace it with a regular counter top, with deep drawers below and the usual 12' deep cabinet above it. I really like long stretches of counter top. I shop weekly and don't like to keep food in my cupboards too long, so I don't need all that much storage for dry goods. Your odds are better to have a timeless kitchen if you choose white cabinets, and add the grey in something more easily changed such as the back splash or wall paint....See MoreKitchen Layout Advice Please!!! Is sink too far from refrigerator?!
Comments (14)Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to add their suggestions/thoughts! My husband is taking an entirely hands off approach to this remodel so it's nice to have others weigh in with their expertise and advice since I have no background in home improvement! HU- 187528210- I definitely see your point about moving the fridge to the left to make a tighter work triangle but I do agree with chispa that moving it to that location might interfere with the doorway to the laundry/mudroom. decoenthusiaste- Thank you for the diagram! It helps to see the triangle with measurements included. I did try moving the range and ovens to where the refrigerator is in one iteration of the design but worried that if I kept it there, it would be an issue if the oven door was open when one of the kids was running from the mudroom into the living room (behind the north wall). I also thought it would be nice if the refrigerator could be more easily accessed from the dining and living areas. palimpsest- You're right, a couple extra steps beyond what is recommended hopefully won't make too much of a difference! And as I said to decoenthusiaste above, you totally called it on the limitations of the range and ovens being relocated to the wall where the fridge is! kevin9408- now you've got me feeling insecure about my "kitchen desert!" lol Early on I had considered doing an island but, like I mentioned in my original post, I decided that keeping my kids on the perimeter of the kitchen while I cook might be preferable to having them in the kitchen while I cook. I've also seen so many gorgeous kitchens with islands but always think, "man, what a pain to have to walk all the way around that island every time you need to get something out of the fridge." Maybe there's an island solution to both of those problems that i haven't thought of but so far I haven't been able to make it work in my space :( Perhaps a mini island in the middle? Like a lone palm tree on my desert :) H202- Thanks for keeping it real. You are also right, it is so easy to get caught up in these details during the design process that become complete non-issues once the job is complete! I probably won't even notice the extra few steps to the fridge! But I gotta say, now I don't know if all of the wasted space in the center of the kitchen that kevin9408 pointed out will be something that looks particularly odd and bothers me when it's done. Will try to keep your wise words in mind though and move on:)...See More- last month
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