Best layout for smallest useable kitchen?
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Comments (2)Will you have a walk-in pantry? Many people who only use their MWs occasionally put them in their pantry. As to mounting it above your single wall oven, that's actually an ideal place since they both can be mounted at almost any height as long as you meet the minimum distance requirements (see your oven and MW installation specs). I think the ideal height for a MW is b/w your waist & chest. I think the oven should be lower than that anyway. Please note though, that it's difficult to give advice without "seeing" the kitchen and without more information such as wall lengths, etc. I suggest you draw your kitchen to-scale, preferably on graph paper, with doors/doorways, windows, etc. marked along with their sizes and distances b/w each other & walls and post it here. See the "Read Me" thread (linked below) for more information on posting. I know you're trying to remodel quickly, but I assume you don't want to spend all the $$$ on this remodel only to have it not work for you. We can help you quickly w/a design if (1) we have the necessary information and (2) there's a quick turn-around w/responses. If you do go the post route, let it be known in the post that you have a small window of opportunity to work on the design. HTH! Here is a link that might be useful: Read Me If You're New To GW Kitchens!...See MoreKitchen Layout
Comments (5)I like the way the corner sink gives you more prep space between sink and range. I don't like the upper corner cabinet, I think it would make it feel closed in. My sink doesn't have a window anywhere near it (open concept kitchen), my prep area is what has the nice view, and that's exactly where your window would be in the corner sink layout, too. In fact, if you got rid of the corner cab over the sink, could you enlarge the window? I also like the wide pot and pan drawers near your range, much more convenient then in the sink under centered window layout. I can actually look at your first layout and envision where I would store almost everything. Do you have food storage somewhere and I'm missing it? That and the glasses being stored far from the fridge would be my only hang-up, there is always a compromise of some sort....See MoreLayout help please for small kitchen, not fancy
Comments (14)Johnliu, regarding the shared garage wall, there is a huge three door antique mahogany cabinet that is on that shared wall between the kitchen and garage that can't be moved. I use it as my pantry storage. The fridge would have to go in the very corner where the stove is now and would only be able to be recessed about 6 inches back to allow for the interior access door to the garage to still open fully and I'm not sure that it would be worth cutting into the wall like that although it would stop the fridge from sticking out so far and that's a good thing. Remodelfla, do you think it it easier to access the full susan rather than the blind corner? The blind corner would allow the sink to be more under the window and would give me about an extra 12 inches on that wall to put towards something (blind 39x24 or corner susan 36x36). I was going to get the fancy pull out for the half susan and keep my pots and pans there. I see that some corner susans come in 33x33 but the door opening is about 3 inches smaller and this may not work so easily for the skillet or dutch oven? I see that you have your smaller appliances in there - do you also store the pots and pans in there? I don't think I have many accessories: the food processor (basement - rarely used, this is probably why), KA stand mixer (basement - brought up for the holidays and kept on top of the fridge) and a toaster (top of fridge) but when I want to use it I have to unplug the coffee maker to make toast. It would be nice to have a place for these in the actual kitchen but I have to be realistic about the footprint I have to work with, don't I? Mnerg, I don't know why I am struggling so much with the thought of an 18 in dw. I know I want a DW and when I went to see an 18 next to a 24, my thoughts were not much difference, most visible on top with one less row for cups, glasses or small dishes but we seem to use so many more glasses during the day than actual dishes! And thank you for the comment about the best stretch of counter space - that did not occur to me but makes great sense - you open the fridge, close the fridge and you are done. The stove is in constant use while cooking and having more than just that 18 in between the sink and stove on the outside wall may not be enough and is actually a throwback to my parent's kitchen growing up - my mother's kitchen was an L and big enough for a table with 4 chairs but on the short L she only had the wall, the stove, 6 inches of counter, the sink and then the blind corner with a stack of drawers, the 24 in dw, then the fridge and a small pantry. She always complained about lack of counterspace when cooking. Personally I don't think she needed to squeeze a table in there but that's what she wanted. Thank you everyone for taking the time to post. I appreciate your comments....See MoreSmallest but still functional kitchen?
Comments (21)You don't need the toaster oven with the range. If you would prefer to use a toaster oven/MW combo unit right now, just leave a hookup and place you could put a range, and just have the toaster/MW on a shelf, and a portable induction burner (or two, or double) on the counter. That's really quite adequate for most things. When I lived abroad with my tiny kitchen I was desperate for an oven, but for your plans, so long as you put in the service for the range, and leave the space for it, I don't see why you should have to figure that out now. Leave your options open and make the decision when it comes up. Oh! And check your local code about whether you need a vent hood for a range. On the sink, I think 18" is big enough for sure. It's the size of one of the bowls on my old, huge sink, and I don't think my sink in the tiny kitchen was much bigger. Someone posted having just a bar sink, I think maybe 18" round, in their kitchen and being very happy with it. But a good sized sink is useful in a workshop too. You should really think about what you want now in a sink, and what you will want, and settle that for yourself. If you like an unfitted look you could get an inexpensive armoire with shelves for all the dishes, pots, and dry goods. Then just have large sink cabinet with a drainboard that can serve as a prep area, the fridge and the range/space for range. I'm sure if it becomes an apartment there will also be a table which can provide additional workspace. Plus, in a small place, one puts a board on top of the cooktop and makes that workspace too. But any way you slice it, I think we're still talking about one whole wall. If that's just too, too much, you can get one of those dorm fridges with the built-in microwave on top, and a sink, and call it done....See MoreZiemia
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