Manma goose, thanks for the warm welcome, and for the links!

The base cabs on the ends are 16" wide. I'm interested in the idea of eliminating the 9" spice rollouts. Would it be odd to have 2 sets of drawers (25 and 24) on each side of the oven, while maintaining 3 cabinet doors on each side of the uppers?

How tall are you? Can the cutting boards really be kept above the fridge and you will be able to use them? If you don't want the spice rollouts, I think you need to resize both the uppers and lowers so that the vertical lines look correct. Also have you thought about what kind of hood you're going to put over the stove? In order for the hood to properly capture the smoke etc. it should be 6 inches wider than the stove and in your drawing it looks like the stovetop and the hood are the same size.

I would switch the microwave drawer to be near the stove because you are likely going to be doing the cooking activities at the same time and that way you could stand facing the same direction watching everything.

Any possibility you can steal a corner from the garage for a walk in pantry? On the wall where you have the drawing of the pantry by the garden, you have a single door going to the garden, I would consider putting the widest possible glass doors (maybe if there is enough space they can slide, rather than open into the room and split on center so that when they're closed they look like fancy French doors but when they're open they won't take up space) so that you can look out onto your garden-unless it faces due west and it gets nothing but late afternoon sun and would just overheat the kitchen. You have a lot of extra space in your kitchen, would you ever enjoy sitting in a chair by the garden area and having a cuppa tea while stuff is cooking in the kitchen?

How does sound carry through your house? Can someone be up early moving around in the kitchen and not wake everybody else up? Would there be a benefit to putting a pocket door between the dining room and kitchen?

On the side of the island facing into the sunroom, I would attach a bookcase so that you could put all of your cookbooks there. That island could be larger if you wanted it to be there is certainly space for it going towards the garden door.

Is there supposed to be seating at the island? There does not appear to be enough space for it.

I may have missed it, but is there a broom closet and place for all the cleaning supplies?

That little bit of pantry between the entryway stairs and the kitchen is a lot of wasted space I think you should post a copy of the entire bottom floor to see if that can't be better utilized.

Hi practicalgal, Thank you so much for the thought-provoking questions. I will do my best to answer them below. And I have more questions in the Island Storage and Pantry sections :)

ISLAND SEATING: I did intend to have some stool seating on the long side of the island. Do you think the island is too narrow for this? I had worried about that with the sink taking up much of the real estate. But it seems like we have space in the walkway is to add a couple of inches to the width of the island if that would make seating more comfortable.

PANTRY: Unfortunately I can't take space from the garage for a pantry. The section of pantry cabinets next to the stairs is 5' x 2'. But I could take 2 feet from the hallway, and make that area a 5 x 4 enclosed pantry instead of cabinets. Does that seem like a better use of space? Then we could put brooms etc in there too.

HIGH STORAGE: I am 5-8 and my husband is 6-2. I also have a helper stool that I use myself even though it is intended for the children. I'm not too worried about being able to reach things on the high shelf since our ceilings are not especially high even under the best circumstances.

SOUND: Our house is pretty quiet. Thankfully!

HOOD: Thank you for raising the question about the range hood size. I will bring it up to the GC.

DOOR: I completely agree about installing the largest glass door possible to go to the garden! Unfortunately I do not get a chance to relax in the kitchen much and have a cuppa tea - I'm always cooking, cleaning, or chasing children :)

I'm going to try to find some old drawings of the main floor!

16" is better than the 12" that I thought the drawers at the ends might be.

Would it be odd to have 2 sets of drawers (25 and 24) on each side of
the oven, while maintaining 3 cabinet doors on each side of the uppers?

I would add the 9 inches on each side to the 24/25" bases, making them 33" and 34" (or 33" plus 1" filler if no 34" cabinet is available). The wider drawers will be much more convenient for pots and pans, and dish storage. I think it will look fine, and the 16" cabinets will still line up with the uppers. If no 33" cabinet is available in your chosen line, you could have 30" drawers beside the range, and 18" drawers on the ends (plus fillers, if necessary). I would prefer 30" & 18" drawers for function.

I made the hood wider in both drawings.

The types of cabinets you get depend on what you have to store. Measure your pots and determine which size drawer you need. I love my 12" pullout for oils and my 12" tray cabinet. I also hate my largest drawer in the kitchen, which is 33". All others are 24". I'm in the minority I guess. I tend to like smaller cabinets so each cabinet only has one type if thing in it. My large drawer, for ex, has spices AND potholders. Drives me nuts.

I guess my thinking is that if you want island seating you might be better putting it at the end in that open area on the garden window side where there's unused space and then they would be seated facing into the sunroom, of course there would only be two stools, and the sunroom I hope would be something pretty to look at. It seems to me that there would not be enough space for the overhang and for them to back up their chairs if the seating is along the long side. But I recommend that you test it, get some pieces of cardboard and a chair and try out the distance from wall to chair and see what you think about it. I think 15 inches is the minimum recommended depth for the overhang but you may want to check some of your local dining establishments and see where you feel comfortable and how deep their overhang is (unobtrusively of course…)

Do your new plans include a storage place for the step stool?

I cannot quite envision how the area by the front hall will go. I do love a walk-in pantry, but my recommendation is that you have a separate broom closet and a separate guest closet so that when people come to visit you can put their coats and other items in the guest closet and you would still have another place for brooms and vacuum cleaner and other tall cleaning implements- given how much is rechargeable, you would probably put an electric outlet in the broom closet so that things could be recharged.

I would still recommend pocket doors on any interior door that you can use them on because the door opening just takes up a lot of space.

I just noticed that you have room beside the fridge for a shallow cabinet that would open to the side. That would be a good place to store the stool, keys, cell phones, cookbooks, brooms, or extra pantry items.