Floor plan?

Can't really see what you're planning w/o one. You'll get more comments if you can add it. Doesn't have to be computer generated, just a simple sketch (with dimensions) on graph paper is very useful.

HTH

L.

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L.

This post was edited by liriodendron on Thu, Jul 25, 13 at 18:52

Liriodendron,

I changed the view to the floor plan. Thanks for the suggestion.

Lisa

P.S. Here's the original view, for anyone who'd like to see 3D version.

Hard to say how something would "feel" to you, but the upper cabinets would be glass-fronted and hold glass, and they'd be half the depth of the counter, like regular uppers, plus you'd be looking out the window and the counter while working there and probably not noticing them after the first day in any case. Do you worry that the larger, heaviermass on the end would loom? :)

As for venting straight out the wall--absolutely. Your suction would be that much stronger because the vent pipe the air is pushed through would be barely more than a foot long. We have that because our contractor forgot to do the "traditional" roof vent before the roof was finished. We ALL of us, family, crew, friends, literally gathered to admire it and remembered the stove vent--a month and a ton of construction late. The exhaust has never noticeably injured any plants below it, but their leaves flutter when it's on and I wouldn't choose to transplant Greatgrandma's special rose below it just on general principles.

Merci!

What are your range hood/venltilation plans? Island hoods are very prominent visual elements so you have to think about them right from the start.

I don't much like the hanging-down cab between the window, but I think the upper horizontal cabs, if very carefully scaled to work well with the overall proportions of the windows (width and height proportions of front faces having a rhythmic relationship to the fixed dimensions of the window opening) would be very nice. And good place to store and display your glassware. Are you planning on using the glassed cabs as a form of lighting as well?

One thing that might make them less looming is to have them made in some less-than-standard depth. At that height several rows (arrayed back to front) of glasses might look cluttered whereas fewer would not.

Since it sounds like you already live here, I would install a sturdy shelf above the windows and then mock-up proposed cab front widths/heights and put the glasses up there to see how you like them. (Beware if you have cats - mine seem to be able to get up to impossibly high shelves, apparently for the express purpose of testing whether the Law of Gravity is still in force. You could check how the glasses look by penning the pests up, or out, while you study the visual effect.)

One possible improvement would be to move the fridge to the other side of the kitchen to make unloading groceries easier: al your incoming food would be stowed from one central dropping-off point and going at once into the pantry or the fridge.

This is the biggest issue for me that I would really try to work on. You also have your work areas predominatly stacked towards the left of the drawing in a kitch where you have plenty of room to arrange them differently.

One question I do have is whether your scale on the drawing is correct. The called out measurements don't seem to line up with the graphed squares which is the usual convention (and one of the inherent advantages of using graph paper.). It will be easier to move stuff around if you decide on a common increment of inches for each square. Twelve inches per square is easy to work with, but six or three inches per square also work well, but one foot and three and three-quarters inches per square (15.75 inches per graph square) is a lot of unnecessary math!

If this were my kitch, i would want to do some more work on how the zones are laid out relative to each other, and how the food and utensils move around within the kitchen with an eye to avoiding backtracking while cooking..

HTH
L.

I'm sorry, but I don't like that little upper cabinet, between the two big windows. It looks like an after thought. I like cook tops on islands (at times) but with you window layout, maybe swap the sink and cook top?

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I didn't see your first post so excuse my remarks if they are not appropriate.

You have 21' of counter and everything squished into the corner. That corner is going to be one busy little corner with DW drawer (clean-up), fridge doors, microwave door and oven doors all opening into one little corner of the kitchen.

Move the sink to the right, put the DW on the other side of the sink. You need some prep space in the corner. You need some space for the MW, fridge and ovens to operate safely.

Failing that, center the cooktop on the out side wall and put the sink and DW on the island.