It would be a 36" stove Standard french door fridge I would like a 24" micro/convection oven in cabinet WD = warming drawer, in peninsula On the 156" wall I was thinking long counter with base cabinets. Pass through in middle with a wall cabinets on each side? Far wall full wall to wall pantry or a bar area in middle and a pantry on each side? I don't have any closets on this floor. So I also would need to store broom and step stool etc. just to keep in mind. Wall to wall to big of pantry? Would the other idea be enough of panty space? I will post a pic of the bar area that I got my idea!

I'm going to point out a couple of considerations about that layout. They are just in case you haven't thought about it. I'm sure you have as its just about the layout you have now. a. Using the cooktop will sometimes involve asking the person at the sink to move. (Anytime those drawers under the cooktop are opened). b. Using cabinet one will sometimes involve asking the person at the cooktop to move. c. Its going to be harder to get into the corner uppers with a modern hood that sticks out further - perhaps even more than today because the corner upper cabinets look like they might be smaller. d. Be careful about leaving allowance for fillers in the corners and up against a wall - particularly when using frameless cabinets. In a corner, the filler on both sides needs to be the depth of the door AND the depth of the handle plus a tiny bit - so that the cabinets on both sides can open properly. Up against a wall, you should allow for a 3/4" piece of starter molding - except that you may need more to clear your door casing. e. Be careful about wall cabinets with wide doors that open over counters and the amount that the hinge allows the door to open. Looking at the wall cabinet door arrangement over the dishwasher - it looks like you've skipped the first cabinet and put dishes into the second cabinet. You may want to rethink that. You could get brained by the cabinet door or left in the slightly odd situation where the door doesn't open wide enough to be able to pick something out of the dishwasher and put it away without first putting it on the counter to avoid crashing it into the counter. Or you have to walk around the open dw door to put stuff away. This is just my personal opinion, but I would move the dw back over to the left and put the main dish storage on the first cabinet to the right. f. Same wall cabinets - opening the center cabinet prevents both other cabinet doors from opening - certainly not the end of the world or anything.

What you will actually have: 15"D Base Cabinets: 30" - 1.5" counter overhang in front - 15"D cabinets - 1" decorative door/end panel = 12.5" seating overhang 12"D Base Cabinets: 30" - 1.5" counter overhang in front - 12"D cabinets - 1" decorative door/end panel = 15.5" seating overhang NOTE: The minimum recommended seating overhangs and linear spacings for short to average people are: Table-height (30" off the finished floor): Overhang...18" Linear space...24" to 30" per seat Counter-height (36" off the finished floor): Overhang...15" Linear space...24" per seat Bar-height (42" off the finished floor): Overhang...12" (but not deep enough for eating meals if it's raised above the counter behind it) Linear space...24" per seat If you go with table-height seating, then you need to add another 3" for the overhang and 3 to 6 inches for the linear space for each seat. If you're both thin, then 24" would probably be sufficient. I suggest you stick with 12" deep base cabinets and install legs and other support. However, if you do have legs, then you no longer have room for 3 people with a 6' wide island. You need room for the legs plus extra room for people to maneuver around the legs. Figure 3" for the legs and another 3" for extra maneuver room. So, you need Leg - 3" Counter overhang over leg -- 1.5" (if the leg is not flush with the counter edge - most I see are not, they're handled like the front of the cabinets. Maneuver room -- 3" Seat 1 -- 24" Seat 2 -- 24" Seat 3 -- 24" Maneuver room on the wall end -- 6" Leg -- 3" (you could probably put this leg against the wall or find another way to support the counter against the wall) 3" + 1.5" + 3" + 24" + 24" + 24" + 6" + 3" = 88.5" (7'4.5") This is just a quick response. What I suggest is that you talk with some professionals about your options. There may very well be other ways to do it that will allow you to keep all 72" clear for three seats. You might try a "call out" to Joseph Corlett, LLC. He's pretty creative! To "call out" to him, start a new thread with his name and a very brief statement of what you need in the Subject. E.g., Joseph C - need help with unusual island config! (If you can fit his full name in the subject, do so. You are limited in your Subject length though.)

Thanks for all of the suggestions everyone! I spent the long weekend debating all of these options with my husband and researching options. We came to a few conclusions and it was so helpful to have all of your suggestions to sort through. We definitely want the counter-depth separate fridge & freezer columns. Probably the Miele or Thermador models. We don't have space in the garage for a spare fridge or freezer. Right now we have one of each in the basement but the way the house is laid out it is a really long walk down there to retrieve anything. We generally have to go down there at least once a day so more space in the kitchen would save us that annoying trip. After much debate about moving the opening in the wall between the kitchen and dining room we decided this is our favorite layout. This layout means we could have people walking through the workspace. We tried to pay attention as we were cooking this weekend and we noticed that doesn't really happen. Since the kitchen is in the corner of the house, people don't really walk through there to get somewhere else. So that isn't a big enough issue for us to justify the expense of moving the doorway over to the right. Plus moving the doorway left us with 2 corners. We don't want 2 lazy susans and we want to avoid leaving a dead corner. I spent a lot of time trying to fit wider cabinet & drawer units in the space, as cpartist recommended. I was able to get 2 36" drawers on either side of the range, with a lazy susan in the corner cabinet. I am thinking the trash/recycling center would go in the 24" cabinet to the far right of the range. We definitely want the counter-depth separate fridge & freezer columns. Probably the Miele or Thermador models. We don't have space in the garage for a spare fridge or freezer. Right now we have one of each in the basement but the way the house is laid out it is a really long walk down there to retrieve anything. We generally have to go down there at least once a day so more space in the kitchen would save us that annoying trip. Right now we have 20" of fridge space and 15" of freezer. In the layout above there is 30" of fridge and 18" of freezer. Those fridge & freezer choices allowed us to put a 36" and a 30" drawer in between them. That should be plenty of counter space for the microwave & coffee maker and as a landing space for taking stuff in and out of the fridge. We decided we liked the 15" pantries in the eating area. We could fit the 24" ones but I am worried about losing stuff in the back and never using it. I think the shallower cabinets will be more functional for us. QUESTIONS: There is about 12" of space between the dishwasher and the wall. I was thinking that I could put a vertical storage space there for cutting boards, cookie sheets, etc. Is there anything else I should consider doing with that space instead? We decided to go with a range in this layout. Originally we wanted to separate the micro, oven & stovetop. Which is better: (1) the range pictured above or (2) a separate cooktop and under counter oven like this? In this layout I would exchange one of the 36" drawers for a 30" under the cooktop. And the 24" cabinet on the end that I was going to use for trash/recycling could be 30". Should the trash go somewhere else? The only reason I like this option is that someone can be cooking at the stove and not be in the way of another person getting something out of the oven. If it makes a difference I really want an electric oven and I am willing to have either a gas or induction cooktop. We currently have gas.