Can you close up/move windows?

Here is what I see as the functional issues with your current layout. Can you confirm?

No place near oven to set down hot pan
No run of counterspace long enough to plate up a pan and 5 dinner plates.
No easy space to use as a pretty serving area during kitchen/dining room meals.
Lots of traffic through the kitchen.

Quick thoughts: Get rid of oven, get range in current cooktop space (30 or 36 if budget allows).

Enlarge window over sink to be twice as wide. Or even go all the way to the back door. Bay window or bumpout would be nice.

Scoot down sink to be centered on the window wall. This gives more counter run space for plating up food by the stove. It also centers the window adding symmetry.

Consider moving dishwasher to other side of sink if range door would give enough clearance. This avoids blocking traffic path with open dishwasher when someone comes in through back door.

A 12-15 inch deep built in sideboard on the living room wall would add bonus storage for papers and supplies.

I would do a rectangular farmhouse style table with chairs that are unobtrousive. A table that can be used to prep.

Where is your current table in this layout? Is it in the lower right corner?

How big is it?

What is the label in the lower right corner?

How do you feel about banquette seating?

Hi, Lac1. It's nice that you like eating at a table in the kitchen. After 10 years planning for my next kitchen to once again have a table in it, I created one with an island. In my defense I had some good reasons for it, but... :)

Regarding the basic space you have to work in, door numbers and placements are my first question. Three suggest possible redundancy and opportunity for layout improvement; but two, or one large one, desirable since such a heavily used room should have good circulation through. But which 2 (if it came to that) and where?

Does the less-used DRM offer a closeby door to the pool? Could traffic to and from the kitchen from outside be diverted through the DRM, or is that door a must-keep?

Does the door at the bottom (to foyer?) need to remain in the same position or could it be moved to maybe the other end of that wall? Could it be closed off?

Would, strange as it might sound initially, 2 doors on the DRM wall work, one at/toward each end? We have a 7' wall with doorways at each end separating our LRM and DRM, which defines both areas and provides real separation but keeps everything flowing as well as if they were one. I'm

Hi, thanks for the advice. To answer the questions, yes, I could move windows,I think. My table is in the sort of empty corner that we have now. Its 5 1/2 by 3feet. I thought about a banquette, but Im not sure how I feel about them. The notation at the bottom of the sketch says baseboard, which is the type of heat we currently have. I have no idea if that has to stay or can get moved around or changed or lessened.
As far as the doors, we don't have another door in the dining room, we do have a large set of windows, that we could contemplate changing into french doors, but again, there is heat there, and then my kids would be traveling in and out of the dining room sopping wet. Im not sure if the foyer door could be moved down. we probably need it somewhere on that wall, as it comes in right off the 4 steps to our family room. High traffic!!!
Finally, Juliekcmo, you are right on in your assessment with the functional issues. I do use our cook-top as counter (although I would love to replace our electric with gas when we renovate), and I think a range would be our best option as well. I also use my table now as a prep area, especially since its currently right across from the fridge.

Thanks!

Unless you need a wall oven, I'd get a new range and have counterspace, on both sides. I think your plan would work fine, if you added an island, with some stools. Hope that helps :)