It is great to finally see pictures of this idea! All of your comments/pics/links have been a great help! I don't understand why some of the stuff didn't come up in my search; I spent several hours and tried different wording and got almost nothing. My kitchen walls where all the appliance will go is 8.5 'x 10'. Right now the layout is stove on 8.5 wall, sink and dishwasher on 10 wall, and the fridge and a small cabinet facing the dishwasher and sink; fridge is set against an L shaped non-retaining wall which leaves 2 openings into the kitchen. The plan is to knock out the non-retaining wall and put an island there. We will leave the sink and dishwasher where they are. That leaves playing around with the placement of the fridge and range. I really don't want them side by side and I don't want the range in the island for several reasons. dan1888, the other consideration was the fridge in the corner, it has not been ruled out yet. I am trying to decide which would go better there and kept reading about the fridge doors not having enough opening room in a corner (I plan on getting a bottom freezer fridge, don't care whether doors are french or one piece). Since I am still in the planning phases nothing is certain, but I now have more to go on with some of my ideas. Thanks!

Strangly the owners have ALL the ceilings,doors AND baseboards painted the same color as the walls. I guess her mother-in-law who is a decorator advised her to do this saying that since the moldings and baseboards were not the wide modern type, painting it all the same color would not draw attention to it. I think we would paint the ceilings white to brighten up the place. The house does show well and the paint is not my choice but I could live with it. Went to see it again today and it is not a "double oven" but a single oven with a microwave on the top. We will seriously have NO money to do anything other then replace what is currently ther (fridge, cooktop, oven and micro) so there is no way I can move the footprint at all. We love the house so I will have to live with the rest of the kitchen for a while if we get it.

I think the best way to address your concerns is to ask yourself.. How do I cook now (or in your "before" kitchen)? Am I happy the way everything works? How can it be better? Is there anything you keep wishing you had--to use--while cooking in your "before" kitchen? What was definitely not working? What worked just fine? The answers will tell you whether you will use all those appliances and if you need the sizes you have. These are the questions I asked myself...and the answers helped me eliminate some, add others. Here are the details...what drove my appliance (and other) decisions as well as the results... Oh but first, my kitchen is basically 10'6" x 15'8" with one wall extending another 6' where the original house design called for the washer & dryer. The old W/D area that I had converted to a walk-in pantry was demolished and became the location of the corner pantry & ovens. In my old kitchen, I had a 36" double-bowl (equal sized bowls) sink, 36" standard depth refrigerator, 24" DW, 30" range, & large/family size countertop MW (sitting on an inexpensive MW cart). We're just a 4-person family but I often end up cooking two meals, or at least 1-1/2 meals every night...b/c I have Celiac Disease but my family does not (and I have decided not to force the rest of my family to go gluten-free!) I frequently ran into the problem of needing to use the oven at different temperatures for the same meal, use the MW for differently cooked veggies, etc. This meant that I often had food sitting out that had to be warmed up to eat (or I just resigned myself to making my food after everyone else's was done!) My DH cleans up and we were constantly bumping into each other while I was prepping and he was cleaning up (we only had 24" b/w the only sink & range). We also seemed to be constantly competing for the sink even though it had 2 bowls. When I baked, I had no room to work...basically either the kitchen table (it was an eat-in kitchen) or the 24" b/w the range & sink. It was the worst b/w Thanksgiving & Christmas, but it was pretty bad the rest of the year as well. So, when I designed my new kitchen, I took all those things into account; so I have... A kitchen that has cabinets & counter in a shallow "U" (I love the "U" shape!) plus along the window wall (where the table used to be...in a very tight space!) 36" double-bowl (1-1/2) main/cleanup sink in front of the bay window. The larger bowls fits my largest pan & cookie sheet flat. 15-3/4" square prep sink on the other side, where the cooking appliances are 30" MW drawer (crucial!) 36" Cooktop...OK, I probably don't need a 36" but I wanted the warming element + a bridge element and none of the 30" cooktops had both. 30" warming drawer...that I use 5 or 6 nights out of 7. I'd rather heat up a shallow WD than a 30" oven for warming, especially in the summer. 30" double ovens, w/Trivection on the top & convection on the bottom (Trivection combines...

I don't know if I am more cranky than usual but I don't think if I bought a warehouse I would do what was done to that one, either. With the exception of some brick showing, it looks like surburban new construction with soffits and tray ceilings and such. I am not paying attention to the contents, some of which are interesting, just what they did to the building itself. Really, they were just looking for a certain amount of square footage of raw space in a certain location and it happened to be a warehouse. This whole thing could have been inserted in the first house in the thread as well. I guess part of this is that I knew people who at one time lived in lofts and warehouses and you could tell what they were. This I don't think you can. And, coincidentally we are demo'ing our current kitchen and since we have to Use it and the house is so small, and the cabinet guy is six months out After final shop drawings, we put a number of big heavy things on casters and dollies and we move them around (big storage cabinets, an oven), and that made me think that if I ever did live in a loft, everything except the bathrooms would have everything on wheels and you could just move it around.