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Comments (4)In a room that narrow, you might like to have a bench that doesn't move up against the long wall, so there is no need for clearance behind both sides of the table. Make the seat at least 22 inches deep, and then you can make a long cushion and attach a matching or coordinating upholstered board to the wall to make it comfortable. You really need 42 inches (three and a half feet) between the edge of the table and the wall to get chairs in...so with this idea, if you restrict yourself to a 33 inch table width, you'll have enough room to fit in the chairs. Otherwise, you will never be able to walk comfortably around the table, even when nobody is there. This way, when you're not dining, you can push the table a bit closer to the wall where the bench is, and push the chairs up to it, and have plenty of room to move around it all....See MorePlease help review kitchen plans
Comments (27)Happy New Year! It's midnight as I'm starting this. I'm glad you are going to attempt to draw out my plan. Let me see if I can give you a little more help, using buehl's 17:30 p.m. plan from Dec. 30. You also may have to refer back to my earlier posts for some info. Using the cabinet depth as 2', her plan appears to be almost 17' wide, so you'll have to knock out 2'6". Take it out of the doorway straight up the aisle across the room, and I'll use the rest of the things on her design to try to help you substitute my plan. Left wall: get rid of 24" cab to left of cooktop, and move cooktop left into the space and on over a few more inches. You can adjust this after you get the whole plan generally in place. Ultimately, have matching cabinets on each side of the cooktop, and a hutch or some sort of special configuration for your dish cabinets on the right end to finish out to a few inches from the end of the 12'10" wall. Right wall: I have no cabinets where buehl has the 30" deep counter to the left of the pantry door, because since I have the kitchen 14'6" wide, I need that space for the circular part of the countertop. To the right of the pantry door are the ovens--same as she has them, and to the right of them is a large bar sink in a 30-33" cabinet. Lazy Susan in corner with skinny cabinet between it and the fridge. Completing the "L" is the refrigerator, roughly where she has the DW. (Remember, you lost 2'6" where she has the door.) It would be good to have as many inches of cabinet as possible between the Lazy Susan and the fridge, so that corner does not feel crowded. The only way to get cabinet space there is to move the kitchen door further to the left, or take more space from your utility room to widen the kitchen more than the 14'6" width I have, or bump into the Great Room. Traffic SHOULD go to the right into or past the "L", since people would be using the fridge, small sink, or MW if they're in the kitchen, or would be heading to the Hearth Room. Are your family members trainable? ;o) Get them to go to the right when heading for the Dinette, and stay out of your prep area! Island: Explained in my Dec. 31, 12:28 post. Using buehl's island, put a sink where she has a 33" cab, a trash cab to the left of this, put the DW where she has the prep sink, and a bookcase/12" deep shelving to the right of this facing where she has the main sink & DW. My island is shifted more toward the dinette than hers, due to the fridge and cooktop sticking out. The circular countertop starts on the left side of the chair where it meets the counter in buehl's drawing. Now I need to interrupt my circle to talk about size restrictions. My understanding is that most granites are a maximum of 44-54" wide and 7-9' long. There are also size restrictions on materials like Silestone, etc. My island looks great when the circle is about 5' in diameter, but that's too large for granite. The widest round table I've ever had was 54" in diameter, and it......See MoreCreated pass through to dining room from kitchen
Comments (6)Thanks, the house is a raised beach bungalow that was actually wide open(other than the completely closed off kitchen) when we bought it. We added the craftsman details ourselves when we first purchased including the bookcases that divide the living room from dining area as I needed a place for our homeschooling books to be stored. It is not a true craftsman home but it suits the style fairly well.. Yes the header can go. It's a truss frame and side walls are bearing. The kitchen table will be going and there will be an island but it will only be big enough to accommodate two stools. We are a large family with young children and teens and felt that having the island area and peninsula area for additional seating for quick meals and snacks would be beneficial, but mostly I wanted the peninsula for serving food into the dining room table. At first we weren't going to do stools. I was just going to take the cap part of the wall off and have granite extend over cabinets and wall to make a level serving area. Then we decided to do the shallow cabinets pulled forward to allow a recessed stool area for no back stools. I have an inspiration photo from pinterest but don't know if that is against the rules. Here's a couple of photo renderings but the peninsula wall is different on both and neither is accurate at the moment for what we have planned.(adding in regards to the peninsula, everything else is correct)...See MoreHow do we finish opening from Kitchen to Dining Room?
Comments (9)If you're removing the wainscoting and going for a more contemporary look, which is evident by your cabinets and you already have a crown molding in your dining room (or is that being removed as well?), , I would just drywall and paint. Putting a trim around it is a frou-frou that you don't need. It would crowd the cabinet on the right, and the wall at the end of the cabinet run in the kitchen wouldn't have anything which I think would make that wall look odd. If when you're all finished and it does look like it needs something you can always add it then....See MoreRelated Professionals
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