carol-well I CAN get to Canada from here quite easily...but I think it'd be easier travel with a snowmobile and that I do not have. ;) In our last home we had a fireplace in the corner and the TV on the adjacent wall with a sectional very similar to redroze. It did work out well but I think redroze's dimensions and your own being more square would make it all the better. Our 'TV' wall was much longer than the fireplace wall. I know that putting it in the corner does eat up more room and that is one negative but in our case it made the most sense and I really liked it. I felt like you could very comfortably watch the TV and get the warmth from the fireplace ("my" seat was of course the closest one to it). The TV wasn't massive and really didn't 'steal the show'. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of the fireplace and the tv in one frame and we have moved on from there. I like Senai01's window seat pic - that is awesome. Too bad your window is too far removed, that would really work well otherwise.

OK, I'm very relieved to read your encouraging responses! First of all, my apologies to anyone I erroneously cited as having condemned CPs in the Other Thread. (It was late, I was taking it all in one huge gulp....) Thank you all for taking my question so seriously, too. I almost hesitated to ask anything that might risk flinging gas on the embers. So this is what I've got planned: My new kitchen will be in a rectangular room with the main functional work counters along the long walls. Range wall on exterior wall because of vent fan access and the sink/clean-up zone on the opposite, interior wall. (BTW, don't get worked up over the lack-of-window-over-kitchen-sink thing. For many reasons it is not possible with my other layout/building contraints and in any case, sink windows are not a big attraction to me.) In between these two work counters is a narrow island (w prep sink), not intended for dining/seating, just standing and working at. I have 42" clear aisles between all the counter edges, and that works fine for me. I have two, long, largely independent, isoceles triangles rather than an equilateral or right triangle work zone. In other words food storage lies at the top of my kitchen and the food will, depending on needs, flow down either the sink counter aisle or down the range counter aisle to emerge at the end of the central island, prepped, cooked and plated, ready to be served in the dining room which opens off the bottom of the plan. (Reversed flow on return, of course; with perhaps more emphasis on the clean-up zone triangle at that stage.) So in short, my c.p. will block nothing as both aisles between the island and main work counters will have free access to fridge (and the adjacent c.p.) in my particular layout. One short end of the room is largely open (pair of french doors) to the dining room. The other short end houses the fridge and in one corner, the proposed corner pantry. I really prefer a separate, room-style pantry space to the other option of a bank of pull-out pantry cabs. And I found that the geometry of a corner of a corner pantry was better than the geometry of a straight pantry room. (By geometry I mean more running feet of shelving for the same interior floor space because the two adjacent, 90 degree shelf runs can use the same open space.) I still have an orginal pantry-entrance door and its frame which was taken out and stored in a barn many years ago, so that will solve Palimpsest's builder-grade issue, nicely. The old pantry door is exactly the same as the other mid-19th c doors throughout the house: heavy, old-growth pine, six panels with a morticed lock set and brown-swirly Bennington handles. Underneath more-recent coats of paint is highly stylized pre-Civil War grain painting, a decorative treatment which I happen to loathe, but will protect as I add a smooth paint coating. As it happens my layout contains no corner cab issues at all since each of my counter runs occupy only a single wall. That's something I worked hard on, but it is less any design skill than the fact that the room has four doors (including one exterior and one double-leaf interior f.d.)and two windows which strongly limited my choices. Still too many doors in my opinion, but considering the room presently has six doors and two windows - all in a roughly 13' X 17' space, I feel I'm making an improvement! (Fewer doors would also significantly impact the overall comfort and warmth of this house which has no central heat. There are only two wood-fueled stoves which rely on very generous open-door air flows to reach all the rooms.) I am actually hoping the eccentricity of a diagonal wall (the visible face of the c.p.) will add a welcome counterpoint to the otherwise very linear plan. My main regret is that the pantry must be at the intersection of two interior walls, not in an exterior corner. An exterior c.p, would be better from the point of view of using the considerable cool-th of my climate in a tradional pantry-esque way. I will have native bluestone shelves, at least on the lower ones so environmental cooling would work nicely if I can find a way to incorporate it. My stone shelves will be repurposed curbing that I've accumulated from a long life of attending farm auctions. For the present I've concocted a scheme to passively draw in cool exterior air and let it travel through the pantry as it warms; it's the best I've come up with to date. My vision of the pantry is strictly as a larder for food stuffs. I have toyed with other plans that incorporated a still-room function but have decided that simpler plans are better for my space. In my cellar I have the usual, enormous, 19th-c farmhouse (and still used) root cellars and cold rooms, so my larder will be mostly for dry, bulk and packaged goods storage. I have a niche in a nearby back hall for an upright freezer, and of course, have additional freezers in the cellar where the bulk of our stored-food lives. A small advantage I have over others' projects is that this room use is new and I can afford the time to build a actual-sized mock-up in situ. As soon as this room is cleared (it's presently a book storage room filled with boxes of books on shelves). I'll get busy and create the c.p. mock-up and bring my photos back for comments. No way I'll be accused of doing a drive-by reveal - you'll be seeing this kitchen so early that you'll see it when it is just cut-up and spray painted refrigerator boxes stapled to 2X4s. Many thanks for all the comments and to those who have taken the trouble to post pics and plans. I was quite crestfallen last night because in my mind the c.p. is something really cool that I saw first here on the forum and shamelessly co-opted from the wonderful ones here and on the FKB. L.

What do you not like about the current pantry location? To me, your biggest layout "issue" is the distance between the sink and the refrigerator. I would add a prep sink between the refrigerator and the cooktop, which would then be the exact layout I had in my previous home, and it was great.

I'm sure you have already decided what to do but I wanted to weigh in with some encouragement. Leave it and just do the crown molding with the odd angles. So what - no one will really notice and certainly no one will care. It does NOT scream "Mistake" - do not even think that! Leaving it is your best option - you get to keep a wider aisle (which would be much more bothersome on a day-to-day basis than funky angles in the crown molding) and you aren't spending more money and time re-doing something so minor. *You* and us GWers are the only ones who will ever know it is not perfect, and as you can see, almost all of us don't even see it as a very big deal or a mistake.