I sent off my notes plus the link to your kitchen, eliz, to the cabinet designer for a quote (she loved your kitchen, btw, big surprise, who wouldn't?). She also thinks an undermount, not an apron front is the way to go. I should hear back the end of this week or early next. In the meantime, I'm playing around with ideas. I did broach the idea of replacing the window to hubby in an offhand, oh by the way manner. He laughed. Got it. Make it work without replacing the window. Sooooo.... I started looking at the molding around the window. We already plan to redo some of it. They placed standard 2.5" molding around the window resulting in a ridiculously narrow strip (less than 1" of gap molding to molding) of wall between the two windows. Solution: remove the existing molding and replace with primed MDF flat boards so that the corners meet. That same molding is at the bottom of the window also resulting in narrow strips of tile only 1" tall under the windows along the counter. We're removing that molding and plan to replace with a sill-type shelf to allow for about 3" of tile here. But we can still do more. The builder's carpenter added fluted details to flat boards of MDF between the windows and French doors in our DR and nook, also between the side lights and front door in our entry. When we added a pair of windows to our DR, we repeated this detail. We plan to do the same for our LR windows. So why stop there? We can repeat the detail for our FR and den windows *and* the kitchen windows so that all downstairs windows and doors share the same design element. If we copy what we did in the DR, we expand the molding around our sink windows from 2.5" to 4.5". I also asked the cabinet designer if we can overlap the 2" spacer with the sink. They cut into our corner cabinet for our corner sink so it's possible they can do that here and cheat the sink as far to the left of the sink base as possible. If we can cheat the sink so that the bowl begins at the very left edge of the sink base, I can do the Franke Orca and perhaps come out okay. One 24" (blind corner cabinet) plus 2" (filler cabinet) plus 27.625 (sink) is 53.625. If we replace the molding, we'll have 54" from corner to molding edge. Talk about squeaking it! If we extend the sill beyond the trim detail, we can eke out another inch of wiggle room. Another designer commented that you were smart, eliz, to have space to the left of your sink for elbow room when you're facing the cooktop wall. This would prevent dishes and glasses piled on the counter from flying into the sink if someone turned quickly. But that's for an apron front. Maybe not a big deal with an undermount that sits 4" or so from the edge already? Dunno, have to think about that. Or I can just pitch a hissy fit if family members can't bother to put dirty dishes and such either in the DW or in the sink. ;-) Oh! Another thought just occurred to me. When the time comes to replace windows, I'll have an easier time installing larger windows if I put beefy molding around them now. I won't have to worry about tearing into tile backsplash and moving cabinets. Am I forgetting something? Am I deluding myself? That's always possible!

We were talking about this thread in another and I didn't realize cwalen had responded again! Sorry! lyfia - That's part of what the 12" between sink and DW is for. You step just a bit in front of that 12" drawer stack so you can pull the trash out, scrap, rinse, load. (I just tried it in my corner sink area to be sure!) cwalen - I think that placement is fine. Or, you could switch it with the cab next to it so it's a little closer to the range (in case one person is also prepping near the range - a little easier for them to get to). If you did that then you won't need to step to the side for the clearance during cleanup. But as I mentioned - I just tested out the side step and it was pretty insignificant! :)

That's a mid demo shot. I bought the house partly because of that corner sink. Some romantic housewife gene popped up and thought "won't it be nice to wash dishes and look at that view!" Mind you, she (the romantic housewife gene) and I, so rarely wash dishes that it was a goofy thought, but all of that light streaming into the kitchen, winter and summer, and the gorgeous view, just call to you to take a shot at dishwashing :oP In the new kitchen the sink will be in the same location, but everything else changes. We've also inset it 3 inches on each side. I can't imagine having lovely windows like that an not setting your sink there. With a view...why would you chose to look at a wall instead?

Thank you so much for the feedback, and photos of your beautiful kitchens. jakuvall, thank you for the photo of a recessed sink. I read your other thread, I was not sure how it looks, this photo helps a lot. I received quite a bit more information from Houzz.com by searching for âÂÂcorner sinkâÂÂ. Info from both sites make me think more from dish storage area and cooking habits point of views in addition to space utilization. We are planning to store dishes in bottom drawers of the island; it may be too far from new sink location. We both cook, I am concerned about corner sink may create congestion. Need to go back to the drawing board and rehash the design. Thank you again for the help.