Your kitchen is almost exactly like ours but our sink and range are flipped! I mean exactly! Wow - Looking at your plan, it's kind of scary! We put our prep sink across from the range top and tend to prep to the left of it, but I didn't want to push back into the core of the island any more than I had to so, so the soap dispenser on the opposite corner of the sink. It works really well for us b/c I find it's easier to get the pot to the corner for the soap then back against the center but it's just a personal preference. We had a 21" cabinet but the sink was 19 1/2" so it's really pretty much using every bit of available space. I'll tell you one unplanned advantage of them spread out - being able to sweep anything into the sink. Now, we have a compact disposal in that sink (which i highly recommend!) But, looking at your plan, if you do any prep in the back of the island (back to the stovetop,) you won't do it right on the edge of the island countertop, you do it comfortably in front of you. When we do that on the back of our island, when we finish prep, we'll move the cutting board or whatever over and sweep it into the sink from the "opposite" side that the sink is oriented. If your soap dispenser is there in the middle, you'll need to pull that cutting board or whatever it is to the very edge of the counter. Is that making sense to you? We push things over into the back center of the sink all the time, so I can maximize it from the side and the back, and I'm glad that center space is available and not blocked by a soap disposer. Since your sink is even bigger than mine, and right across from your stovetop is an open area, you may want to consider that? Incidentally, we put the disposal push button on the side of the cabinet instead of cutting another hole - I love that - it's in the perfect spot for my hand (pic below.) As an aside, our kitchens are not laid out like most with a long horizontal island. I was really fretting about that for the longest time in the planning phase. I gotta say - I love our layout now! The island orientation perpendicular to the sides of the kitchen allows folks to be working on all sides of the island, working on the long countertops on the perimeter, plus sitting at the end of the island. It really gives you so much working space that's all focused in on each other so it's very social - I bake with my daughters and love how we're all facing in. Anyway, here are some pictures so you'll be able to see how your kitchen is going to turn out layout wise - just squint and imagine your rangetop where our sink is and vice versa. And, hold a mirror up to it for your prep sink location. Let me know if you have any questions since we're living in it! ;) I put my plan in (it was actually marked for lighting but you can see the cabinets) below so you can see how similar they are. For the sink accessories, go with your gut. You use it - you know best!

gizmonike, you are not in the KFB either, could you post a picture? I changed my plans (again) with the GC this morning so the prep sink is in the corner of the island. I took the air switch out and put a standard but horizontal switch on the island side. I didn't want to accidently turn on the disposal when I was prepping. So I'll have the single hole faucet and a soap dispenser...and wide open space!! rhome: I am so excited to be getting wood counters and I see you have them. Mine will be lyptus on the side grain made and installed by my GC. He is also making me two butcher blocks on the end grain. I love wood. I also chose granite for the balance but I love your ss and how economically you had them done. Do I remember right that your island is 4x6?

Good point, bbtrix, but relying on the pendants isn't a big deal to us. We're re-using the existing pendants with 75 W halogen bulbs (will likely switch to LED when they burn out). They put out a lot of light. We started out with 100 W halogen to replace 100 W incandescent and they were waaay too bright. Anyhoo, I prefer a mix of lighting from cans, UCL and pendants and the ability to use all or only some of them, depending on what's going on in the kitchen. And dimmers for all, of course. I just talked to my KD. She had designed the cans to be 54" OC (wasn't marked on my plan so I forgot this) so moving those 2 cans to the other side of the joist is only about 3" beyond that, putting their final location closer to her plan than their current placement of 48" OC. We can get away with slightly wider placement between cans because we have 9' ceilings. I'd forgotten about that when I was stressing over this yesterday. = ) I'm happy with this decision. I really didn't like having the 4" and 6" cans so close together in that one spot, plus I know for sure that moving the bottom can out a few inches will definitely provide light to that side cab. It's because of "the wall is open, this is in the way, what do you want to do, we need to know now" situations that I planned and planned and planned all the other details so I'd have to make as few on-the-spot decisions as possible. So far, so good (thank you, thank you, kitchen remodel gods!). ... I've read this sentence several times and can't quite fathom your concern: "At this point though, it looks like the cans by the range are the concern." Is it because it's not centered on the hood? Or for another reason? But to answer your question, I am ok with it, as is hubby. I thought he'd have a problem with it because it's not centered on hood (he can be a little OCD about that kind of stuff) but he's not bothered by it in the least. My new kitchen will be lighted better than my current kitchen, which is lighted better than it was when built 21 yrs ago, simply because we switched from incandescent to halogen bulbs. When I think back to how poorly lit all my childhood kitchens were.... My grandmother's kitchen had a light over the sink, a light over the range and a central ceiling light for a room that was 18'-20' square. How on earth did we never slice off a finger while making a meal?

Nice layout! I'd put the 21" cabinet on the right, then the sink. You'd have a sight line through the doorway while prepping, the prep space is a quick turn to the range, and someone can access the fridge without crowding you at the sink. You might have addressed the following issues in previous threads, but I noticed the reveals one each side of the window, and on each side of the range will be different widths. Will that bother you? I'm generally function over form, but I like symmetry around windows. You could let the upper on the range wall die into the exterior wall, and use a 30" cabinet on the other side, or make the cabinet that turns the corner a little longer, and adjust the uppers on the range wall. It appears you are using 27" deep bases on the sink wall--are custom lengths in uppers available? The island is deeper than necessary, unless you plan to have seating on three sides. If you make the overhang only 16", you can split the difference between the two aisles. I'd also suggest placing the trash pull-out on the corner of the island where is would be under the primary prep space, but also convenient to the clean-up zone.