The layout of your space is kind of similar to mine, and while I don't have any brilliant ideas for you, I'll be interested to see what the great layout gurus of GW have to say. Primary challenge for us both is the path of circulation, but in your case, that may be easier to resolve by moving a door.

Good luck and I'll be curious to see what ideas come up!

Much prefer MamaG's! I think your current plan takes a good sized kitchen but makes it feel small by putting the peninsula in the middle of it. I would also be driven nuts by the lack of counter space - both for prepping and especially on either side of the stove. If you are not able/willing to get rid of the door to the DR, I would prefer to just do an L shape like MamaG's first layout skipping the 30" drawers and baking sheet cab. This would give you much more usable counter space, and you could add some sort of mobile cart in the middle if you wanted a little extra space. It would also be nice to put in a window about the sink if it were along the wall to provide a little more light.

Thanks for the great ideas.

I'm worried that a pass through would create a traffic problem in the hallway - There's the basement door, a bathroom door and the entry to the dining room from the hall - add in some laundry and the kitchen and rear yard are inaccessible.

Any ideas on moving the laundry or integrating it non-stacked?

Unfortunately I can't widen the entry to the dining room from the hall because it's a supporting wall with a curved plaster finish. Also the wall between kitchen and dining is just under 10" thick because it's an old addition with a brick wall.

I was going to try to add in a French door, single lite doors, and hoping to squeeze in a transom for it. 110 year old house with 9ft ceilings. Husband wants a skylight - so closing up the window for the hood vent should be fine.

Thanks again - it's just nice to hear new ideas.

If you move the door into the kitchen to the left wall, you could have a nice L shaped kitchen. My computer here in NY is really bad so I can't do what I normally do, but this is the idea.

Does 51" deep w/ door mean fifty one inches deep? That can't be right, can it?

Thanks cpartist, I wish! There's a fence you'd walk into if we did that, it would be straight up slapstick.

I'll mock it up in Ikea Planner, with the door in the corner on the end wall and see it in renderings and imagine cooking a bit.

51" Deep is with the door at 90 degrees, open - if you're talking about the washing machine.

OH!

Have you seen Carrie B's kitchen? It reminds me of yours. If you like minimal and efficient, maybe a layout like her's will work for you.

Regarding laundry... I had a stacked washer and dryer in a bathroom at my first house, and I wouldn't want it again. I encourage you to put the machines side by side with a counter on top. You'll at least have a place to put a laundry basket and keep it off the kitchen floor. Storage above is perfect for costco stock of non food stuff. We have a laundry closet with side by side machines right now and three full width elfa shelves (8.5' ceiling) for storage. Keep in mind you need to allow room to run the dryer exhaust across the back or the side of the dryer unless there's a way to exhaust directly from machine through the floor?)

For best dryer exhaust and to hide the laundry area next to the fridge, I'd put it in the back corner. Unless you think you might store dirty clothes with the machines, I'd be tempted to just keep the machines exposed european style. Maybe you could hang a cute curtain from the countertop to hide them. It would save a lot of space.

I know you see walls of cabinets/ovens/fridges in photos, but you really need a counter next to an oven or the fridge to act as a landing zone.

Idon't think you're gaining a lot by installing cabinet corners and I think one straight run might be best for a functional work space, storage and making the most of a french door on the back wall.

Check out banana suit's amazing 1928 bungalow, esp. treatment of washer/dryer

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3656259/bungalow-kitchen-reveal-lots-of-pictures

I made another run at it with two options, using lharpie's and benjesbride's suggestions. In the first, the kitchen is an L, with a mobile cart with drawers, which can be incorporated into the pantry. The W/D are side-by-side, with upper cabinets for storage.

I drew a range, rather than separate cooktop and ovens. The MW can be on a shelf beside the fridge, or beside the DW.

In both plans I put in extra windows on the top wall. The widow beside the dryer could be a door sidelight, the width of the narrow windows beside the hood.

Deedles' mobile cart idea:

Two more options of the same basic plan, without blind corners, and similar to benjesbrides' plan. With appliances on only two walls, the kitchen just seems too wide without something in the middle for extra landing space and storage, so the mobile cart is stored against the top wall, and the existing window can stay.

I love it, and galleys are the best. Hate moveable furniture (sorry!)

Small confession - in our rental days - 3 of us lived in a 420sqft 2 bedroom apartment - everything is stackable, rollable, foldable etc to make the most of the limited space. But it's all retrofitted by me after the fact, and some things you just can't fix when can't demolish or move appliances.

So while I understand how functional moveable furniture is... I hate it. Give me a few days, its mostly just a reaction of living in a small dysfunctional space with a gateleg dining table, only 12" deep kitchen cabinets, folding chairs, cart storage and rolling dishwasher that eats up our hallway.

LAUNDRY - I hear you all about folding and prep. My theory was folding into baskets would happen on the dining room table and the large ikea drawers could hold baskets like this:

Blog Post for the Pax Laundry

Quick exposed laundry question - they're not countertop depth so how would you accommodate for that using stock cabinetry and make it look visually seamless?

Just a building confirmation - rolling drawers made out of base cabinets - we're just using a thinner countertop and using casters that are shorter than the legs elsewhere so that that sucker slides in?

Are you using IKEA cabs?

We are using IKEA cabs, I'm building our butcherblock out of hard maple milled locally.

Ha! I love convertible, moveable furniture and rooms that do double duty--and I love the challenge of finding unused storage space! In my case it's given me more options for using rooms, and entertaining, but I understand your reluctance. It works best if you have almost unlimited time for DIY.

DIY time is an excellent factor too, our whole build is nearly 100% DIY so building counters is already a stretch, mostly because I can rebuild them to spec and rip them down day of install.