Here are two ideas for you: Both plans use compact appliances, an 18" DW and a 27" or 24" wide, CD fridge. This allows me to place them along with the sink cab into the L portion of your kitchen, which opens up the center of your kitchen. I swapped out the slider for a 36" swing door with 12" side light (or door plus separate window). If you can do an out-swing door in your area, do that to avoid having a door swing into your space. You still keep a place for your pets to sit and peer out but this frees up wall space for a floor to ceiling pantry/flip-up work table/stool storage cabinet that shouldn't interfere with a radiator (if it's still in that corner, can't quite tell from your posts above). Think of this as a merge of the rolling island idea that live_wire_oak posted above (but make it fixed) with a wall cabinet sitting above or on top of its counter. Swing the table up to get more prep space or a mini bar area. You will need to - and hopefully can - widen the doorway so that you can open a right hand swing door fridge. If you can't do this, you'll need to choose a left hand swing door (or else the fridge door will bind on the side wall). Even better would be to remove that bit of wall because you would gain 4.5" of space you can use for a larger fridge. The 1" spacer between DW and fridge is for counter support. Specific notes for Plan A: I removed cabinets from above the corner sink. It would be close to impossible to access storage in the cabinet in the corner. You'd need a stool at the very least. The pantry cab should more than make up for the loss of cabinets over the sink. Specific notes for Plan B: There is not a cabinet around the fridge in this plan. There simply isn't room to add one. However, if you removed the bit of wall below the fridge, you could not only go with a 27" fridge but you'd be able to add a cabinet around it.

Well, 'Catalonia' is certainly handsome -- congratulations -- as is 'Condesa de Santiago'. I am a total sucker for gold/yellow reverses on orange petals. There is something to be said for vigor on own roots with this group. I loved the flowers of 'Duquesa de Penaranda', but the plant just would not get going for me (4 years of staying virtually the same tiny size), and was eventually killed by ants, of all things. 'Gruss an Coburg' is pretty vigorous -- bush in photo below, taken today, is 6' tall, own-root, and I cut it back regularly. Another great one is 'Etoile de Feu' (about 3' after 3 years) but it is quite susceptible to blackspot -- photos below from later in a previous season, as it is currently "indisposed" due to rampant blackspot (though blooming, as always, like a champ). I have a found rose, apparently a Pernetiana, "Lundy's Lane Yellow", that is very vigorous on its own roots (goes to 7' in a season) and hardly susceptible to blackspot at all, it seems. Sadly out of commerce and not quite in bloom yet -- I am planning to do a "study" of it on HMF when it is ready -- a very worthy rose. P.S. Pernetiana fever is a good thing -- they deserve some attention! 'Gruss an Coburg', today: 'Etoile de Feu', June 2014: Now deceased, 'Duquesa de Penaranda' 2013 (the flowers were large, 5.5"-- ridiculous on such a small bush)

Dorothy - if you're putting in a 2-bowl sink, then I don't see how you can possibly fit a decent-sized one in the corner and still only take up 42" (not counting the pullouts) on each side. 2-bowl sinks should be 36" wide to have decent sized bowls. If you're putting in a 30" single-bowl sink, then 42" is about right. A cooktop or range of 30" will take up around the same space as a 30" sink. is that a 30" in your plan? I thought it looked like 36" (it wasn't labeled). The difference is that you will spend far more time at the sink than the range/cooktop and it is very rare that more than one person needs to work at a cooktop/range at the same time. Kitchen work studies show: 70% or more time spent in the Kitchen is spent preparing a meal or snack - uses the sink 20% or less is spent cleaning up - and that includes not just sink work (hand washing a few items), but also non-sink work such as loading the DW (if you don't pre-rinse your dishes), unloading the DW, clearing the counters & table, wiping down the counters & table, and sweeping up at the end of the day. - uses the sink 10% is spent cooking - stirring, adding ingredients, watching food cook Based on the above, no more than 10% of your time will be spent at the cooktop while 90% or more will be spent at the sink - so it makes the most sense to have the range/cooktop in the corner where it's used much less and the sink out on the straight run where it's more accessible and easier to use and allows you to have a wider sink base & overall sink size. This is how a 30" range would fit. BTW...how wide is that "south" window and exactly where is it located?

I basically like what you're considering and am posting to underline my agreement with no angled sink. I have that corner in a tiny vacation kitchen, and if I could make one major change to that kitchen within its footprint it would be to sacrifice what minimal counter space I have to its right to set it in next to the refrigerator. Note that an angled sink removes inches from the front counter edge to stand and work at, making the entire space work smaller, and it shifts precious counter space to wasted area behind the sink. (I'm short, so it's especially wasted.) Go ahead and measure the counter edge inches with both layouts and see. Creating one very good, pleasant work space--which you do have in excellent position between sink and stove--would be my first priority. So I'd set the sink on the fridge run wherever you want it. And if the DW has to go under the prep run, oh well. Disadvantages would be offset by the real advantages of a compact work area which are seldom considered these big-kitchen days. Btw, I predict you'll love your spice and other shallow storage across from the stove. :) Addendum: I forgot to mention that I'd strongly consider effectively abandoning the corner space under the counter, instead running drawers right up to the corner on one or both sides depending on where the sink was set. My home kitchen has an 18-inch drawer-and-door to provide access to a susan, and even though I think building in a few deep knee bends is a good thing, I'd trade it out in an instant for a high-efficiency 18-inch drawer stack. (I do have a basement pantry for large, seldom-used items.) I'd also seriously consider putting drawers under the sink. that's extremely, extremely valuable space RIGHT THERE, and just a little kind of the custom attention you've given to between-studs storage would secure it for items you use right there. Most of the chemicals and whatever that typically occupy that space would be better off on broom-closet shelves somewhere else.