Help needed for an indecisive couple
Good afternoon for all the good people of gardenweb. We have been reading on this forum quite a while and have seen great help by the community to people. We are finally embarking on our journey of kitchen remodel/renovation project and took the measurements. We have met with our first KD and will see what happens and we liked her philosophy.
But what we wanted to see is some more unbiased ideas that are not just tied to cabinets from our community experts and get flow of ideas that we can incorporate to our design process.
We would like to not limit ourselves to just stay inbound of existing layout. Rather we want to see a flow of layout in our kitchen that is functional and yet nice.
We want to have family room part of our kitchen as well and get rid of an existing half a wall. We want an island and very well be our table for eating in the kitchen as long as it combines the the flow of the house.
Couple of things for sure we are getting rid of soffits in thekitchen and that small half wall and of course those dining table and chairs. Even on that bay windows area and thinking raising those windows at the eat in area and contemplating whether to run cabinets there or just run a nice base cabinets and put cushions on top of it where they can become our new kitchen dining area.
Thank you for your help.
Here are some pictures and layout of our dear kitchen.
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sena01
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoHere's an idea.
I moved the sink to the short wall. I have 25" for DW (+1" panel to support the countertop), 30 sink cab and voided the corner. As far as I know you'd need 3" fillers next to the voided corner so cab doors+drawers on two sides of the corner can open, but if 2" can be enough, then you can have a 33" sink cab. I believe depending on the type of cab (framed--inset--frameless) you may need less fillers.
An island would leave you with quite tight aisles, and block the walkway b/w the range and the fridge, so I think it will be better to have a cart/island on casters.
If you need the corner for less used items you can do as deedles and have a cab on casters next to the corner.
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Anatole
8 years agoAnatole
8 years agoYes, We can run those HVAC ducts reroute no problem and we will. @razamatazzy it is the formal dining room over there by the stool. We will get rid of that big table. And sometimes thinking adding a seat in area on the nook with a smaller eliptical table like this. The distance from one of the corner to the other corner of that nook is around 110 inches.
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