WHOA! I was curious about Whink, so I just googled for their MSDS (which must tell you the ingredients). The active ingredient is hydrofluoric acid. That is a serious and dangerous acid. It dissolves glass (so it may not be good for your sink). More serious, it is harmful to YOU. It does not "burn" your skin, like hydrochloric or nitric acid. Rather, it is more pernicious. It penetrates your skin and does nasty things to your innards. From: http://web.utk.edu/~ehss/training/has.pdf Hydrofluoric acid (HF) differs from other acids because the fluoride ion readily penetrates the skin, causing destruction of deep tissue layers, including bone. Pain associated with exposure to solutions of HF (1-50%) may be delayed for 1-24 hours. If HF is not rapidly neutralized and the fluoride ion bound, tissue destruction may continue for days and result in limb loss or death. Full disclosure: I may be overly strident about this warning because I have a minor, but permanent, disfigurement on my hand, and lingering pain in my thumb, due to unrecognized exposure to HF about 30 years ago.

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. 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. 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.

Joseph will give you details:) Just wanted to say I love my short apron Whitehaven. Kohler makes this sink in two apron styles - "short apron" and "tall apron". If you have a standard sink base cabinet, you need to order the "short apron" style - I think that has been said and the order numbers given, but I just wanted to make it clear. Sometimes when ordering it is in the small print on whether it is a short or tall apron - so be sure you order the correct sink. The sink is easy to install because it has a self facing apron and the cabinet does not need to be exactly scribed to the sink as in a traditional farm sink.

I was first smitten by what I first knew as Belfast or butler sinks in the early eighties, when I was in college and had a subscription to British Homes & Gardens magazines. And then in 1988 my mother took me to the Smallbone showroom in NYC, where I finally got to see one of those glorious sinks in real life and received the unfitted kitchens catalogue I still treasure. It's been full-on mad love for the past 32 years : ) . I went to England on my honeymoon in the early 90s where my husband and I actually went to a few kitchen showrooms and I contemplated hauling home a sink as a souvenir lol. I finally got two such sinks in our new house two years ago (though I had bought the Ikea Domsjo sinks, one single basin and one double-basin, about seven years earlier because I was worried Ikea would stop making them before we needed them, which turned out to be the case, sigh). And as Mrs. Pete says, if you spend a lot of time at the sink, washing dishes or food prep, they're very convenient and efficient.