I'm rewriting this entire post because my link did not work. I replaced my Blum drawer runners with Heavy duty runners on my 36" drawers because my soft close stopped working & the drawer felt unstable (too much weight) when it was open. It took the installer about 10 min per drawer to make the switch. My HD runners are the 568H (110 lb dynamic weight/125lb static weight). The 568H is being phased out by Blum & is replaced by the 569H. The 569H supports even more weight -135lbs dynamic/150 lbs static. This post was edited by romy718 on Thu, Jul 24, 14 at 23:17

Great large space. Just a few thoughts: 1. I love my appliance garage. In case you're looking for ideas: Amanda's double-decker appliance garage 2. Suggestion to add in a prep sink to the right of the cooktop, near the DO. Because I usually prep/cook between a sink and a cooktop. This way the main cook can prep there. While helpers are at the island. 3. I don't see a problem w/ the oven at the end. My oven and cooktop are at opposite ends of the kitchen, because I mainly use the cooktop and DH uses the oven, so we're not in each other's way. The only time I wish they were closer is when some burns in the oven or something that requires the hood vent to be on. But I still run my vent and it gets the smell/smoke out fine. 4. So don't forget to include a powerful hood vent for the honking 48" Bluestar. 5. Just in case you might be interested: take a look at how often you go into your freezer. We have an all fridge, all freezer, and right now, our freezer is in another room. I'm in my fridge ALL THE TIME, but freezer, maybe 2-3 a day: to grab meat to defrost, and to get the kids' ice pack for their lunches. It's winter here and we hardly grab ice. So why give it such valuable real estate in the kitchen... If you just put a space for 36" future fridge, put the all-fridge there, then you can fit the DO between fridge and pantry. I would rather have the pantry near the window seat, more out of the way for people to grab stuff from there, like cereal or bread, snacks. just thoughts, good luck, Amanda

My first reaction was to location of dishwasher and stove. Conflicting possible doors when open are to be avoided so put dishwasher on right side of main sink. No sink in island. I think if you must have sink for coffee station ok but seems unnecessary. I think a better investment would be for pull out garage can next to coffee station. Messy grounds etc. the refrigerator is too far away from everything. Reverse location of coffee station with refrigerator. Put drawers in island and most lower cabinets. Some are designed specifically for dishes. Easy to get to as well. Drawers are sooooo much more functional than doors or doors with pull outs which are the worst. Get a good kitchen designer soon because it will help define the locations of key items.

One of your layouts shows the top (North) wall at 28'. However, based on the actual "squares", you only have 26'. I used the 26-foot measurement. (It's the "November 3, 2018" layout, 5th comment.) ( Yes I made an error on the width of the addition although we can alter the width up to a certain amount, ) You did not account for wall thicknesses for the bathroom walls. So, I assumed that the bathroom is: ( I measured the actual floor space in the bathroom so we have exactly 6'x6' of floor space in the bathroom) -- 6'0" wide (East/West), including the bathroom walls -- 6'3" deep (North/South), including the bathroom walls – I took this from a note on one of your layouts It does not appear that you accounted for counter overhangs in your layouts (1.5" counter overhangs in front of the base cabinets) ( Yes I forgot to account for them , My plan was rough and just relies on whole 6" amounts LOL ! ) Between the bathroom walls and the counter overhangs, I think you have less to work with than you show. ( see above about the bathroom . I think it will be OK ) You're keeping the Dining Room, correct? I'm asking because a 36"D table is not really deep enough for dinner use. It's fine for a Kitchen Table used for quick meals or snacks, but it's not deep enough to hold serving dishes, etc., as well as table settings. It's also too shallow if anyone is tall or has long legs. (We learned both the hard way!) ( We have always had a 36" wide dining table . That's what we have in our " real" DR too. It's always been fine for 48 years so we'll be good with that. I guess it's just what you are used to . :) ) It also has tight aisles on the North and East sides.I added a 7" bumpout to the window wall. I originally had deeper counters overall on that wall, but the aisles were just too narrow. -- When there's a DW (or DW Drawers) on an aisle, IMHO, I think the narrowest functional aisle width is 45" to allow someone to pass between an open DW door/drawer and the island. It also might allow you to have the dish storage drawers in the island open at the same time as the DW Drawers are open. (More later.) (I will have to think about the aisles wrt to the DW. There isn't a time that we will be having the DW open and anyone will be walking back and forth so I think that won't be an issue. I will have the DW either one standard or the drawers open and unload to the drawers in the island as well as to the only open shelves above the DW . I am planning on all windows to the counter in the rest of the " L".....either side of the cooktop as well. This may change but it is something we are thinking of. As long as aisles are at least 36"-40" I'm good with that. That's what we had at our other house and it was fine. We like to pivot with a small step between the countertop and the island. We use the island as the primary prep space unlike so many that prep next to the cooktop. Will have to give all of this some thought with the new space !! You have given me SO much to think about !! ) -- See MamaDadaPaige's and ErikaNH's windows in this thread:[https://www.houzz.com/discussions/counter-height-window-pictures-please-dsvw-vd~2484108[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/counter-height-window-pictures-please-dsvw-vd~2484108) The cabinets and counters along the cooktop wall are 3" deeper than standard. This allows more workspace and storage. I added a 9" wide Utility cabinet between the refrigerator/freezer space to ensure you can open the freezer or refrigerator door fully. If you don't need it, then you can add the 9" to the 15" cabinet/pullout next to the sink and put in a 24" cab/drawer base instead. I added depth to the island – if you're going to be rolling out dough or doing other tasks that need a lot of space, I think you will appreciate deeper workspace. It also allowed the addition of more cabinet space – for the extra dishes and crystal. (You can finally get them out of the boxes in the basement!) With that added island depth, a seat could be added, so I added one seat to the island in case you want to sit down while working at some point. It's configured so it doesn't interfere with the Tea/Coffee/Beverage Center since the aisle between the Center and island is only 42" wide. ( I need the pantry cab area to be deeper so that I can have my mixer and grain mill sitting on a main shelf with 2 taller drawers below and shallower shelves behind doors above it. It has to be a 17" tall space x 18" deep at least to hold those. So the island can go back to 36" wide.) ( We are only 2 so we don't need but a short 4'-5' run of area for our mudroom. One bench and a few pegs is all we have now and it's fine.I love the idea of cubbies ! Will definitely do those. There should only be a 48" walkway from the " new " sitting room into the addition .) I also added an 8' row of 18" deep cubbies with seats/benches and drawers under the seats/benches. It could be just one long row, but I thought 2 to 4 cubbies might be nice for some separation for each person. I also thought the cubbies would look nicer than just hooks on a wall. You can add doors, if you'd like to hide any mess. You still have a 53-inch wide aisle (52" if you add doors) – I think that's plenty of aisle width. Oh, note that I closed up the 65" doorway by 13" to accommodate the cubbies. The doorway is still 52" – as with the aisle, I think it should be wide enough. Sliding door to the garden…I was deliberate in its placement. You’re a bit short on aisle space, but if the table and door are placed as I show them, there should be plenty of room to use the sliding door – there's approx. 48" of aisle space between the ovens and the table. If you want even more space, you could move the table against the East wall and add a bench for that one seat. It would free up over 30" of space. The aisle between the table and the North wall is tight, but if you put the sliding side on the left, then it should work. (I was having the ovens well away from the cooktop so that DH will be using that North wall all alone and I will have the ovens and the baking/pantry cab with island to do my thing, If you can think about how that can be made to work. ) . Other items: Coffee/Tea/Beverage Center: It has the under counter refrigerator you wanted. I added a sink since your layout said "wet bar". I recommend a prep sink instead of a bar sink so you can use this space as extra prep space – it has plenty of counter space and a water source. I added a narrow trash pullout (1-bin) since (1) it's always best to have some counter space between the sink and counter edge to minimize splashing and knocking things off onto the floor and (2) I don't think an 18" wide sink base is big enough for a trashcan underneath. (A third reason is that I don't like trashcans under sinks – but that's my personal opinion!) I added a shallow (9" deep) upper cabinet to give you additional storage for the paraphernalia associated with a Coffee/Tea/Beverage Center as well as add extra storage overall (in case the 61"W cabinet under the island isn't big enough for your extra dishes and crystal!). The aisle between the table and Center is only 46.5" wide. This is because of the items I mentioned above (bathroom wall thickness, etc.). It's probably fine when it's just the two of you, but you might consider moving the table back against the wall . Refrigerator/Freezer: I wasn't sure how much space the Twins needed, so I added some space. I know they're 32" wide each and you need 2" or so on each side plus you probably need a bit of space between them, so I used 71" total space. If you don't need that much, add it to the cabinets on the right! ( The TWINS don't have any space between them. So they are 64" with the allowance on either side for opening. I messed up on that at the last house and couldn't get the bins out of the freezer !! YIKES ) . Work Zones/Storage You have three or four Prep Zones: Primary -- between the sink and range Secondary -- to the left of the sink and in the Coffee Center. Both have direct access to water Tertiary -- in the island. There is no direct water source in the island. Baking workspace I think this is where the island excels. It gives you a large workspace for rolling out dough, decorating cookies/cakes, etc. Trash pullout I put it in the island so it's easily accessible from the primary Prep Zone, the Cleanup Zone, the Cooking Zone, and the Baking workspace on the island. ( I would rather have two wide drawer bases in the island for all of our dishes except what will be on the one set of open shelves on the wall above the DW . I don't need another trash pull out with one in the coffee area and one between the cooking and the sink. DH will kill me if we have that much trash LOL ) Cooking Zone: It has plenty of landing space and workspace There's room either to the left of the ovens or on the island Pot & Pan storage is under the cooktop I recommend storing pot holders in the top drawer between the cooktop and the ovens. ( I will have drawer stacks all along the North wall....one in the prep area to the left of the cooktop. one beneath the cooktop and then I had planned the equal 42" area to the right of the cooktop with another drawer stack. We will have a hanging long bar behind the cooktop for the skillets and utensils as we had in our other kitchen.. DH loves having everything right out there where he can see it. . Need to look more at your plans. Your details are SO much better than mine !! ) ( Cleanup Zone: The Dishwasher Drawers (DWDs) are out of the Prep Zone. Dish storage is in the island across from the DWDs Optionally, you could have one upper cabinet for storing glasses. It's offset enough that the DWDs won't be in the way of getting into the upper cabinet. ( OK>.....THANK YOU THANK YOU !! You and mamagoose have given me SO much to work with !! I really appreciate it and my contractor will too. I have leeway as to size of the addition both length and width. I need to print out the floorplans you both have come up with and spend time thinking about it all. The bathroom will open into the walkway /mudroom area. The new sittingroom/old kitchen will have builtins on the sittingroom side surrounding the door. These will be for display of my wood bowls and books. ) .