Inspiration floorplan:

What I am drawing up to hep communicate with future designer:

input needed!

Are you planning on a built-in fridge? If not, you're going to have a hard time (if not impossible) opening the left door wide enough to pull out fridge drawers.

Are you the only one who does laundry room or would be going to the pantry/laundry rooms? If not, then you'll have people walking past the cooking zone, which is generally not a desired thing. One way around that is to move access to the laundry room from kitchen to hallway.

My Bro and SIL just built a home with a baking pantry but hers is more square than the long rectangle that you have. Plus she has more windows so it is brighter and more open than what it looks like you're planning. Maybe that's not an issue for you, though.

Anyhoo, is this similar to what you're envisioning?

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Another possibility is planning for a baking center that has doors to hide your mess when not in use, something like this:

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It's a long walk from your baking pantry to the ovens. That would annoy me. But I'm a klutz so it's a good pan, I'll drip cake batter on my way from baking pantry to ovens.

Just noticed the width of your dining room. 8'6" is narrow. If your table is 42" wide and you plan for the minimum of 36" aisles between table and exterior wall (36" is slide past aisle room, not walk past, that's 44"), you've already used up all but 24" of that space. If you increase the aisle between table and the exterior wall from 36" to 44", you're down to only 16" to spare. That's going to make getting around the table at the ends very difficult.

I realize that you're making it an alcove to control sound but another way to do that is by incorporating soft surfaces: area rug, drapes, cushioned seats, etc. Soft finishes absorb noise to prevent it from echoing through a room. There are other methods, too, usually aimed at commercial sites, but you might be able to adopt them for your home. If you go that route, then you could lose the wing walls and not have aisle worries any more.

If you don't want to do that, then you can also solve the problem by enlarging the eating alcove. It does increase the cost but it's much cheaper to do this now than wish you had later.

If your kids are going to help bake a baking center in the pantry might be too cramped. OTOH it would hide the mess ;)

I played with your plan a wee bit, turning the laundry room and baking pantry on their sides and moving your kitchen appliances around quite a bit. =)

Both laundry room and baking pantry are wider in this plan, which means that you have better aisles in both spaces. I didn't realize until I working on your plan how narrow your baking pantry was. If you were spec'ing standard depth counters & cabs along one wall and 12" cabs on the other, you're left with less than 29" for the aisle. That's fine if you don't intend to work in their but since it sounds like you want to do baking prep in here, that's not going to work well at all, especially if you want your kids to help you.

My plan does mean no window in your laundry room but you could always add clerestory windows between baking pantry and laundry room to let light flow from one to the other, like they did between spaces in this home.

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Okay, into the kitchen. I removed the wing walls on each side of the dining area so that you're not pinched for space around the table. However, as I wrote above, if you want to keep the walls, you can bump the space out instead.

I moved the fridge out of the corner and against the pantry wall. That puts it close to your baking center; shorter walks to get eggs, butter, etc.

I moved your clean up sink and 2 DWs to the wall next to the fridge. Here are inspiration pics for sinks against walls, not under windows.

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Moving the clean-up zone, opened up space to move the range top and hood to an exterior wall. Since you're concerned about noise, you should definitely look into adding an remote blower to your hood. This runs ducting up the exterior wall to your roof where your blower will sit. You'll cut noise quite a bit.

I moved the ovens to right next to the baking pantry door so it's an shorter walk with pans of batter.

I added a prep sink to your island to give you a good work zone between pantry, fridge and range top.

The downside of this plan is that it puts the clean-up sink and dish storage the farthest from the dining area. It also means that anyone wanting to grab last minute items from the fridge to bring to the table will walk through the cook zone. Not ideal but I can't think of another way to address that at the moment.

Oh, the other thing I did was recess the full depth fridge into the pantry wall so that it appears to be counter depth.

I've no idea what your aisle widths were because you hadn't marked them but you have a large enough space to go for generous 48" aisles.

Wow thank you all for your input and the time you took to include visuals! I greatly appreciate it!

Lisa, thank you for the changes! I was worried about the space in the pantry and you helped me see that I really needed to move it around some. And wow- thank you for the remote blower info. I had no idea those existed and just googled it! Thank you! Thank you!

FunkyCamper- this was the input I am seeking to help with my baking pantry vrs normal pantry debate. I do about 75% of baking alone, but I do worry I will be in a closet when the family will be outside in the real kitchen. But if i make it big enough then I can include kids...hmmmm. Another downside to the long pantry is paying for countertop material. I am assuming i would need to make it match the material i have in real kitchen?

I do agree with convenience of laundry being near bedrooms. I am really wanting a full bath and laundry together near the family entrance so everyone can shed muddy clothes, and also the noise is a concern with placing near bedrooms, especially my DS room. However, the size of pantry is more of a priority to me so if that laundry needs to move I can part with that idea of laundry/shower.

Thank you thank you everyone again! I welcome any input!

What if i took Lisa's idea but moved main sink and dishwashers to island. I then used that interior wall that backs up to pantry as the built in baking cabinet space like the pics showed above? Do i have space on island for all of that plus seating for three?

I was thinking along the same lines as funkycamper--keeping the baking area in the main kitchen, but having the option to keep the mixer and baking utensils under the pantry window. I made the pantry narrower, with only two walls of shelving.

I removed the stub walls between the dining area and kitchen, and moved the FP down, giving you an option for another entry (red square). There are built-ins on both sides of the FP, for books, display, and extra storage.

The fridge is moved down, too, with a breakfast pantry between it and the wall. Breakfast and snack items, toaster, and coffee maker can be kept in the pantry cabs, close to the fridge, with a MW drawer in the island.

I put a prep sink on the island, to make a nice work zone between the fridge and cooktop, with clean-up on the bottom wall. There is a nice counter for baking, canning, etc. close to the island for back-up. Trash is shared between prep and clean-up areas.

I'd also suggest a door from the hallway to the laundry room.

ETA, this plan places emphasis on function--I tried to embrace the plan that puts the clean-up sink on the window wall (because I really like the sink under a window, and that's what most folks expect), with the cooktop and ovens on the wall adjoining the pantry. I felt the issues with that plan were 1) If prepping between the clean-up sink and cooktop, you'd need to turn and take a few steps to drop items at the cooktop, and 2) If a prep sink is located on the island, it would share the space with the clean-up area. With the clean-up sink and DW on that bottom wall there is a direct path between it and the dining area, for incoming dirty dishes. Someone can be working in that area without getting in the way of the main cook, and if the sink was centered more, a drawer base with silverware, placemats, etc. could be put on the end, making table setting easy for a helper, without interfering with the cook.

I also altered the plan to reflect the laundry door from the hall, and moved the closet from the hall into the back of the pantry, leaving an unobstructed hall. Your pantry is taking some hits, but eliminating the laundry door, leaves room for shelves in that space:

Wow thank you so very much Mamma Goose. You gave me lots to think of. I like your idea of the DW and clean up sink having a direct line to the table. I guess this would be a con about having clean up sink and DW located in the island- I couldn't have my kids unload dishes while I stand at stovetop I guess. But still wondering would it help my work triangle if I moved clean up zone to island and had a secondary prep sink/DW in pantry area?

Thank you (a million)!