A Less busy
C Less busy and I like the center better
F More interesting

IMHO

A, D, F

The uppers in B are weird.
D is more cohesive and less choppy than C.
The molding in F ties together the oven stack and the cabinet rather than just having an extra door in the wall. The smaller doors should make it easier to use too. No getting out of the way of a big swing zone.

What concerns me more is your workpath. You go from the fridge to the island to prep going that way, then back this way to the cooktop. It's awkward. Not impossible. Just awkward.

Thanks Juliekcmo and plllog; I really appreciate your opinions!

I think you've both gathered what bothers me about the oven wall; it's boring and broken up, with a big expanse of wall along the top that looks like a giant forehead to me.

Plllog, it's not clear from the layout, but the area to the left of the oven is a large walk-in pantry with a door that hinges on the right and opens inward. In option F, it would stay a single 24" door, but have a cabinet door facade.

I'm especially interested to hear more about your concerns regarding the workpath. I think the island across from the ovens will make a good baking area, as flour, sugar etc are just inside the pantry door. My prep area has been the counter opposite the cooktop. I do wish the island could be wider than 48", but I like that the sink, cooktop and fridge are a fairly tight triangle. The ovens are a little out of the way, but not *that* much farther than the pantry door (or so I keep telling myself). Please make any suggestions! Thanks-

A - except for the archy thing over the ref. Personally, I would make the wall cabinets all the same height and add an over the ref cabinet as high as the hood cabinet.
C - except for that archy thing - would just cut it and move the crown down
E - I don't know if I would put the cabinet over the wall ovens. I rather like the pantry doors in "F" but don't like the way the rest of it introduces another strong horizontal in another plane that doesn't match up to the heights of anything else.

It's like you're afraid that every detail won't be special enough where I'm afraid my eyes won't know what to look at.

hth

I thought I was alone in my chosen combo, but then saw that Bmore agrees with me in preferring A, C, and E. They're all cleaner, simpler, and more pleasant to me. I am just not arch-person, so I can't comment on that. Yours don't really bother me.

A is too busy.

In D, the balance of the lower, multiple closed cabinets with the open space above just doesn't feel right.

The crown in F really bothers me. It doesn't seem to belong in the center of the wall.

I like Bmore's idea to get rid of the cabinet above the oven in E... Maybe an opening for cookbooks instead?

A

C

Unless further explanation is forthcoming neither. I don't see (could be my old eyes) either option tying into the rest of your cabinets and space.

Speaking of which - what is to the left of the range and what are the refrigerator drawers for and where do you envision your prep space actually being?

I don't see any trash near your prep sink or baking center where it should be, unless your prep area is between the clean-up sink and the range?

Given the choices my preferences are: A, C, E

I think the others may be right that the crown in F won't look good in real life even though it's more cohesive on the page (yes, I did get it about the space behind it). B'more has the right of it on the cupboard above the oven. In E, it's too fussy. If the doors were simple, like the pantry door, it would be better, and even better if it were a single, flip up, door. I liked the idea of disguising the small pantry door as cabinetry because the blank wall flanked by the two passage doors looks stark. Having different appearances on either side opens it up, whereas the two matching doors kind of confines the blank wall and makes it a focal point in itself by bookending it. Additionally, it's a visual cue that what's behind is an overgrown cabinet, whereas the other door is for the laundry/BP/large pantry or whatever the next room is.

I think your baking area is fine, and so is the oven location. Some people do a lot of stove to oven and vice versa, but many of us do rarely, and I assume it's not a biggie for you either, or that you were going to use the Advantium for those cases.

It's the prep path that feels awkward. I really don't know if there's a better path, given the walls. The distances are fine. There's just a lot of moving around the island to do prep. I think if you clean at the sink, then move back around to the end to cut, where you'll be just across from the stove, it'll work fine. It's that extra step that makes it feel awkward to me.

Hm... Yes... What I did with a small island is put in a trough sink at the end so that I had the whole width to work on. Similar size to the end of your island.

A lot of that is based on how you work. I can dry prep too, or use a bowl of water rather than a sink. The sink is there. It's not a big worry and you have the rest laid out usefully.

Don't worry about it. There are compromises in every kitchen. As I said, not impossible. :) It'll be fine.

A. C. E.

I don't have much in terms of why, but those are my votes.

Thanks also to bmorepanic, rhome410, blfenton and remodelfla!

Below is a 3-D image in which I left the fridge cabinet lower for now, so you can see it in living color bmore.

I like archy things, but would be happy to eliminate the one in C because it's so squat.

I don't know if you can see it well enough, but this image has the disguised pantry door too.

There is a drywall archy thing over the butler's pantry entry to try to tie it to the rest of the room. Is that too fussy and weird? The cabinet above the ovens has doors.

The images above have two different heights for the cabinets by the desk. Do you like them at the same height as the oven cabinet?

blfenton, to the left of the cooktop there's a pullout with appliances, a 27" window, and a super susan in the corner.

I use every inch of the prep area, which is the 48" island counter opposite the cooktop. Trash is to the right of the clean-up sink; there would also be a smaller trash attached to the door of the prep sink. In my dreams, I'd have a 6' wide island with the prep sink facing the cooktop...

The area between the clean-up sink and the cooktop looks like great real estate to me. I don't use it now as there's an old indoor grill with a (drafty!) downdraft there and the lighting is terrible. Both of these things will be fixed in the remodel.

A,D,F

I liked these out of each two choices but not sure whether they will look good togehter or not - not very good at those design things...

I love the first one of the elevations where the cabinetry wraps the corner and includes the pantry door. That looks awesome. Not so much the arch over the BP door. All the other brows the kitchen are square.

It's your feelings about space that are the most important here.

What I was thinking is maybe make everything on the ref wall and the window/sink wall the same height - to the ceiling. I think I must hate dusting more than you do ;)

The desk wall is harder. There's all that wonderful stuff plllog said. Plus whether you want the desk area to read as furniture or read as cabinets. I was thinking maybe lower that center cabinet too, but that maybe feels too modern?

milehi: thanks for explaining and answering my questions. your lay-out now makes sense. Thanks.
I don't think I would do the arch over the butler's pantry.