New construction need kitchen help
Kari H
8 years ago
I am nearly finished with my new home construction and I am having some hang ups in the kitchen. We already have our cabinets nearly installed and the granite choice is still looming over my head. I have natural hickory cabinets and a rustic cottage vibe throughout the house. We were thinking Perseus on the island chiseled edge and leathered steel grey on the perimeter counters. I want to look like a giant rock on the island. Our floors are mocha stained red oak and hand scraped look. Please help if this will all look ok or just crazy. This is my first time posting so I hope I get the photos attached correctly.
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8 years agoPS I'll also need help with tile backsplash if this all works out. I'm attaching some things we had found.
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new home construction kitchen layout help please!!
Comments (9)For the overall here[it's a social floor plan-casual] I'd do a U kitchen-sink wall is the middle of the U. Reason is that people migrating in from deck and from family and dining area can use the right arm of the U as a peninsula with stools. Great spot for seating. You'd still be able to have 8 feet width inside the U it appears. Place fridge on lower wall backing up to closets...sink and range inside U-sink about where it is,maybe center the windowscape and range on wall that backs up to corridor over to the left. The island as you have it isn't desirable to me. the range on the left wall means at the peninsula you can do something more visually appealing with pendant lights/back side with panels or whatever to work with some stools and also have just a little separation from the cook's part of kitchen. this will be appreciated I think especially if the dining zone is the only one you are planning. Activities at the range with lots of counter around it will be a little more removed from the middle extremely open part of kitchen where you are suggesting it. You could plumb a small 2nd sink down on lower wall with fridge-perks to that as well.....stylish little zone with added pendant light carrying the theme from peninsula....See MoreNew Construction kitchen needs help!
Comments (11)May I make a suggestion? In Photobucket, make a new album, transfer all the kid/personal pictures into it, and lock it. The children are darling by the way, but you don't necessarily want to give them so much exposure. Leave all the architectural stuff in the original folder so that when we click on it, it will still be there vs a "broken link." You may want to make several new albums and sub albums for the rest of your photos and lock or not lock depending on what's in them. For instance, we took a trip to Europe this summer, so I made an album called "Europe 2013." Then I made sub albums for each of the 5 cities we went to, and each of those cities got some sub-sub-albums depending on what we were looking at. Back to the kitchen. This isn't a large kitchen, and that isn't a bad thing. A well designed smaller kitchen can be even more useful than a monster requiring roller skates to get from the fridge to the stove. I think with the larger appliances you might find that they crowd the space and leave you short on prep space. I so know what you mean about the Kohler Stages 45 sink! I tried to make that work in my small kitchen and it just wasn't gonna happen. I don't love where the DW is in this plan. If you think about unloading it, where are you planning to put your plates and glasses? You could put them in the uppers above the DW, but it's more awkward than other choices. I love having the plates in a lower drawer: Do you have the option of not doing a corner sink? If the sink moved under the right hand window and the DW just to the right of the sink, then you free up all kinds of prep space on the current space where the DW is while maintaining a landing spot next to the fridge. I like the idea of the corner sink and the view, but functionally, I think it takes up too much room in a kitchen that needs to be very space efficient. Is there a hood planned for that cooktop? I agree that if you could move it to a wall instead of on the peninsula, it would be better, and you'll love a clear peninsula where you can prep, the kids can color, and family projects can happen. I wouldn't trade the fridge and the ovens though. Functionally, I think the fridge works better where it is vs walking across open floor. You'll need to cross the floor to use the ovens, but they get used way less often than the fridge....See MoreNew Construction- Kitchen layout needs help!
Comments (8)Hi guys, thank you for the input and help! bethohio3, that beverage center looks awesome! Thank you so much for that find and recommendation. I think that would look great on that south wall by the stairs. It would also be functional since its closer to eating area and great room. Hopefully we can get that made by our cabinet guy in budget. For questions that Cheryl Heweitt asked: 1.) Do you have a floor plan that has more detail, like what size cabinets and their function? Aisle widths? Unfortunately do not have this yet. Will be getting it from architect in next week or so. 2.) What is the function of the cabinets in the breakfast nook? Again, more detail would be helpful. Not sure what the function would be but were thinking of using as pantry and also as a beverage center for a small bev fridge and such. 3.) Family size? If you have children at home, age ranges? Number of cooks in the kitchen? 2 small kids age 3, family of 4. 1-2 cooks 4.) What kind of cabinets/function are you planning for the island? Your island is really deep. Will there be cabinet access from the back side, too? We specifically wanted a large island as we thought it would be functional and like how it looks. Will have cabinets in it (hopefully on both sides). Use (w/ addition of prep sink now thanks to the feedback here) will be for food prep and also guests to sit at. When I look at your present floor plan I don't find it all that functional due to the refrigerator being so far to the right. If you rotated the island 90 degrees, and added a sink I think it would function more smoothly. I guess it depends on where you expect to do meal prep. My wife and I talked about island orientation for quite a while and we decided not to rotate the island but leave it as is since the north south dimensions of the room are so generous (19 feet) rather that the east west....See MoreHelp with kitchen layout for new construction
Comments (16)ssdarb - thanks for the perspective from a fellow mom! We just have one daughter, so dealing with a crowd on a daily basis isn't common, but we have tons of extended family in the area and usually have dinner guests at least once a week, so we do need to think about ability to scale up. And once or twice a year we have a big party with 75+ people (what can I say, my husband is an extrovert!) but for that we bring in a caterer so I don't end up trapped in the kitchen all night. I'll have to think about #1. Not sure there's any way to avoid it altogether (and it's less of an issue with a small family), but worth putting some thought in. That is definitely an issue with my mom's kitchen - the cooktop and main sink are across a 4' aisle from each other, and the fridge/freezer is one one side and the microwave is on the other. It can get a little crazy when the whole family is over (especially when a small child decides to wander through. :-) As for #2, if we used the bar stools for eating, I think the arrangement you have sounds awesome. We don't eat at the counter, though, just the table (I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've sat at our current counter to eat in the 7 years we've been in our house, and I never did at my previous house, either) so they're really just there to make it easier for my daughter (and a friend/cousin or two) to help or keep me company while I cook. On #3, I really don't want to give up the view while cleaning up option! We're on almost 20 wooded acres that back up to one of the largest urban parks in the country, so the view out that direction is straight into woods that will always be preserved because of the environmental zoning. We're hoping to avoid uppers near the family room because the family room is vaulted, and we don't want cabinets ending into nothing at the far end. That said, I think that section bears looking at again to see how it can be arranged. #4 is important to us, too. My daughter sets the table most nights (but we have to get the dishes down for her) and often empties the dishwasher (but right now that mostly means handing me things to put into cabinets she can't reach). I love that she could do it herself with dish drawers. #5 Great suggestion. No coffee area needed for us, but I have to remember to plan for the tea setup - that's our caffeine of choice :-). Thanks so much for sharing your hard-earned knowledge and suggestions!...See Morenancyjwb
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoI'd do solid perimeters. Of the two back splash options, I like the second, without glass. Top one on this board:
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