that picture is gorgeous! i wonder how that works from a "work triangle" perspective. there's not a lot of triangles in a straight line. :) would your sink/stove/fridge all be on the same wall? would your kitchen "stuff" all be on an exterior wall or interior? i love natural light in the kitchen! just the practical stuff to think about but from a prettiness perspective it's lovely. :) we're building an open concept familyroom/kitchen/dining room as well, and i think both the kitchen and the family room are sort of "featured" as they share an exterior wall. the kitchen has a huge 9' long window and the family room has a big fireplace and you see them both equally from the foyer.

Well, dang that chimney! ;-) Moving the DR door instead seems like a good alternative, if you're willing to give up the kitchen doorway. I can't decide if your cabinet maker did you a favor by mentioning this possibility or not. ;-) But since it's under consideration, why not look at all the possibilities before pulling the plug and going ahead with the remodel? At least this way, you'll know you've looked at it from all sides and the plan you went with was the best of the bunch. So here's an idea if you leave the kitchen doorway in place: And another if you close the kitchen doorway off. Both of these rely on a corner sink. You need 74 to 80 inches of wall space to install the DW (allowed 26 for DW and cabinetry), 12" cabinet between DW and sink and 36" or 42" corner sink cab to make this work. Corner sinks have their pluses and minuses but one thing I think they help with is fitting the sink and DW in an area you may not have thought they fit - that corner by the window in plan C. Moving the sink to that area allows you to move the range over to the fridge wall, which gives you more space on each side of the range, making it easier for 2 to work in the same space. I'm assuming that your windows on the wall to the back door are counter height, hopefully I'm not making a mistake with that assumption. In Plan C, if your fridge cab is 39" wide, the range is 30" wide and the cabs on each side of it are 20" wide, and your DW wall measures 80" (42" sink cab), you'd have 40" between the two runs of cabs. If you stretched the cabs next to the range to 24" each, you'd have 33" between the cab runs. If you shrank the DW run to include a 36" sink cab instead of a 42" sink cab, you'd have 37" between the two cab runs. Don't forgot to include an open DW door when considering clearances. You don't want an aisle so tight when the DW is open that you can't walk through the kitchen. In Plan D, you could have a 18" cab (trash pull-out?) between corner sink cab (42") and range before a 36" corner Susan cab. If you went with a 36" corner sink cab, then you have room for a 24" cab between sink and range. It's tight but it's a small kitchen. You haven't said but I'm assuming that your fridge is a left hand door swing (hinges on left) so that you can place it up against a wall as you've shown in your working plan. I'm also guessing on a few other measurements, including the size of your fridge and its cab so you'll need to check my measurements based on those assumptions to see if either plan fits in your space.

The front room that is going to be the bedroom is actually staying original. Only moving the original pocket doors to the hallway side. It's the living area now. We are only moving the bathroom bc it wasn't originally there. So your instincts are right that that should be a living area. But we have circumstances that we need a bedroom and bathroom on the first floor. And we can do what we want with interior walls, just not original doors windows, roofs, things poking out of roofs and sides. It can be done but it is a long expensive process.

Me and my spouse are about to furnish our new home. We have a nice Open Plan area which we want to be used as a Kitchen/Living/Dining space. A glass door (right) leads into the open area (closing it off from the rest of the house to retain temperature & sound). We decided to go for a large island to have a significant amount of working space and also have a breakfast bench. Kitchen wall units consist of the following in order: Full Fridge, Full Freezer, Sink, Small Work Top, Over/Microwave, Shallow Pantry, Pantry. The island features a hob, a dishwasher and some storage space. Two stone pillars lie at opposite ends of the room, one of which will be covered by a shallow pantry. The other may also be incorporated into a book shelf or some other wall unit. A six person dining table sits opposite to the island and 3/4 seater sofa sits around 2.1 m from a 65" TV. The room is connected to the yard via a double glass sliding door (top) and a window. Any comments or ideas are greatly appreciated! Keith