I have to ask...How many is 'mne?' My user name is pronounced "Our home for ten," since we have 8 wonderful kiddos.

Do NOT make 2 storage areas for dishes and silverware on each side of the dishwashers! :-) Been there, done that... I made the mistake of doing something similar in our last house, and it was a pain. Things were never in the place I needed them or first looked.

Why is your warming drawer on the other side of the island from the range? It seems that would be very inconvenient.

Trash: In cabinet #20? It'd be close to the sink, the prep area, and the stove. Otherwise, maybe something on the cooking side and something on the other side...Is your dining area to the left?

Is that a pass through or other kind of open bar on the left side? Ideas for using that side:

1)baking center...Maybe consider adding an oven? You didn't say you'd purchased the range...Have you considered a rangetop, cooktop, (or even a range) and separate oven(s)? The problem with having all the important working things on one side of the kitchen is that all the people helping need to be on the same side, too. Think of work zones for multiple cooks. I want places for someone baking, someone making salad, and 1 or 2 people working at the stove, and I don't want them all on top of or having traffic jams.

2) snack/breakfast/sandwich making area. Maybe keep your beverage cooler over there, or a microwave

3) a beautiful hutch or special cabinets for dishes...It's not really that far from the dishwashers. You can try to wash dishes in the left dishwasher and cooking utensils on the right.

Now for the opinion I feel I must share...Big can be good, but too big can be a problem If your cabinets round into the curve, they are a LONG way from the island. Because your island is so deep, you have lots of real estate to cover running from one side of the room to another. I would really work on arranging it into task zones, and/or designate a certain portion of it as 'kitchen' and use the rest for storage, so you're not covering the whole area to make one meal. I know that's part of what you're trying to accomplish with having everything on the left, but make sure that arrangement will actually work efficiently for you.

Best wishes!

Hello rhome410,

I have five children so not as many in my house as yours!

Thank you so much for answering me. I am not experienced at all in kitchen design and I want to make the right choices~

We already have our range; although what a wonderful idea to make the left side a baking area. (I want to buy a wall oven now which we had in the first design, but DH won't let me.) Even without an oven, it might work with a bread maker and all the baking supplies housed there or we could move the GE Advantium microwave to that side. Currently it is planned for the right corner counter cabinet since it is a convection oven too.

That is an open bar on the left and our dining room is past it. The island really should be arranged efficiently. But I do like the idea of pretty glass cabinets to display crystal or something.

I like the trash idea too~it really helps to have another pair of eyes with this.

Thanks again!
Amy

Now that you've moved this back to page 1, I hope someone else will weigh in for you, too!

Some ideas to consider since we have a 16'x 20' kitchen.

Put one dishwasher and a pull-out trash in the prep area. Store all prep equipment in that area. When those go in/out of a dishwasher, it's convenient. Try to make your prep sink large enough to rinse out your large pans.

Put the other dishwasher and another pull-out trash beside your main sink. Put cabinets for all tableware (plates, glasses, bowls) there. Put your flatware door right beside that dishwasher, too.

Put your warming drawer near the range, but not underneath a cooktop. You want to be able to food into it from your range, but have it out of the way for others to get food out of while you are cooking.

Have a pantry for ingredients that you use for cooking that is separate from things your family wants to eat (like cereal, snacks, etc) It will help you keep everything organized. We have pantries based on who uses the items (I just posted photos on the Home Decorating Forum under the thread "Show me the inside of your pantry").

Careful with putting cabinets in a curve. You may not be able to stand at your sink and open your dishwasher at the same time due to the angle. I don't know how that will work, but it might be worth posting a separate topic on cabinets in a curved layout.

When I designed our kitchen, I drew out where everything will be stored in relation to the work zones.
Hope this helps.

Have to worn about separating the dishwashers. Like I said about trying to have separate dish and silverware storage areas for specific parts of the kitchen, been there, done that. We had one in the kitchen for prep and cooking items and one in the dining buffet for dealing with dishes from the table. The only thing that helped us was the pass through over the sink, so when something wouldn't fit in one, but there was room in the other, one person could pass it to a 2nd person who was by the emptier dishwasher...but then the dishes for the dining room ended up in the kitchen after they were clean...It was a HASSLE.

When you have enough dishes for both, you need to be able to see and reach both at once for fitting things in most efficiently. There is a constant battle of things being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or one dishwasher keeps getting used, while one sits for too long with just a few things in it, til they're moldy and smell. Believe me, it can be gross. It seems like such a good idea, but, at least for people with bigger families and big loads of dishes on a consistent basis, it doesn't work in practice the way it seems in theory.

The best thing to do, IMHO, is to place them on each side of the sink...one nearer the cooking area and one nearer the dish storage, but so one person can load and organize them both when necessary.

Well, I peeked at this last night but didn't have time to respond. I was going to name a few things, but Rhome stole EVERY single one! So I second her good advice.

I respectfully disagree with wonby's suggestion to separate the DWs. My new kitchen has two DWs, and I can tell you first hand that whatever you're looking for will NEVER be in the first DW you look. I would wear holes in the floor walking between the two DWs looking for a specific spoon if they weren't right next to eachother. Like your plan, my prep area is on my island with the cleanup zone across from the island end. I find it pretty easy to slide prep dishes to the island end as I finish with them, and then they're very conveniently located for DW loading.

I do second wonby's advice to carefully plan and get feedback on the cleanup run of counter if you're curving or angling it back into the window curve. I suspect your best bet for functionality and keeping costs down is to angle in, have the sink and DWs in a flat section with a deeper counter filling the space between the back of the sink and the wall, and then angle back out again. Are you following me?

Our kitchen has a wide angle on one side, and that kind of setup is what I mean might be a nice way to fill in your curve. And it preserves a lot of utility by not having a lot of drawers crashing into eachother. I only have one picture showing the angle, and it's from when our cabinets were first going in:

How big is your island? Make sure you'll be able to reach the center to clean it! For most people, 6' is the maximum you can go before you can't reach the center. If having a seam on your island it going to bother you, you may want to investigate how big the available slabs are by you, and then decide if you want to make the island smaller. Personally, I'd rather have a big island with a well done seam, but that's just me. Many here would hate to have a seam on their island.

My kitchen is 16 x 21', so I know it's challenging to plan a big kitchen.