This drawing shows the plan I have come up with. Goals were move the stove out of the path way from the hall to the basement, Move the refrigerator from the hall into the kitchen proper. Find room for a dishwasher AND still have an acceptable size prep space for one cook.

After reading on here I also added keep the refrigerator near the outside of the kitchen so folks getting drinks from it would not have to come into the kitchen proper. I was not very skilled with my friends program but trust me between the walls is only 160 inches. Also the area to the right of the refrigerator will be shallow 12 to 13 inch deep cabinets not full depth due to that walk way. Not sure how those snuck into the drawing... We will also have in wall spice rack across from the stove and another set of shallow pantry shelves.

Edited to add: Stove is 30 inches, Refrigerator will be a 33 inch counter depth. Dishwasher will be a 24 inch one. Microwave will go in the area with the raised platform so will coffee maker.

I think you will constantly regret a corner sink, especially in such a small kitchen. The way you have it, you will not be able to stand at the sink and open the dw at the same time without bumping some body part.

How about doing something like this instead? You did say you have a counter depth fridge, so it would then fit there comfortably freeing up lots more counter space. Your prep space would be under the window and since 70% of our kitchen time is spent prepping, you will have a view out the window.

look at my floor plan again in the first post there is a door there that leads to the steps to the basement and backdoor so that wall has to stay empty

Would you consider breaking up the L? This looks old fashioned (to me), but it gives you a protected spot for the range, and you might be able to keep the narrower window. Between losing the cabinet under the window, and losing space with a corner sink, you might have a draw. You would have 49" of prep space, although you would be prepping over the DW (I prep over my DW, which increased my prep space). I'm concerned about the pinch point between the fridge and MW/coffee counter--how much distance there?

I had thought about that approach at one point in time but was not sure if I had the room for that break between the two sections. It looks like that space between the stair well wall and the fridge would be about 37 inches if we shortened the space between the stove and fridge to the 24 inches that could work and would enlarge that pathway space.

NKBA recommends 15" landing space beside a cooktop or fridge, with an added 12" if two appliances share the space, which is why I made the base between them 27". But I think 24" would be sufficient.

Try a mock up by setting a small table, or a couple of chairs, 36" behind your current cooktop, overlapping by about half, and see how it feels. My island is in about the same spot as your perpendicular cabinet (actually overlaps fridge and range each by about half), and it works fine--I have step-back room to open the oven door, although I'm tall, and usually stand squarely in front of the oven to insert or remove baking dishes, without hitting my backside on the island. I remodeled a smallish kitchen in an older home, so I made a few compromises.

NKBA guidelines

Is there a landing when you open the door to the basement stairs? If so, you can move the door to inside the kitchen next to where I put the fridge. Moving a door like that is not a big deal. We did it in our old house.

no there are 2 steps down to a 4 ft square where you can hang your coats, then you turn 90 degrees and step down to a 4ft square where the back door is and directly across from the back door are the stairs down to the basement. It is actually a rather scary setup as you are at the very edge of the landing when you open that back door even half a step will land you on the basement stairs.

I kind of like Mama Goose's split counter plan, but if that won't work, and you decide to use a corner sink, the important thing is to put some space between the sink cabinet and the DW to avoid the problem that CPArtist has experienced with corner sinks. Here is a discussion on corner sinks that explains more fully: Corner sinks

The way I have the corner designed was taken from the photo album of Marandalls kitchen that Buehl made. There is a recessed corner cabinet flanked by a 10 inch short cabinet on each side. So I have a full 10 inches between the dishwasher and the sink. Plus it gives me a 45 inch prep zone on one side of the sink and 21 inches on the other side between it and the fridge. Yes my DW is in the prep zone but sigh that is the only place I can put it and to be honest if I had my way I wouldn't even put one in but DH wants on. On the south side of the stove I will have another 30 inches of counter space. That actually gives me almost 3 times as much counter space as I have now.

Someone on another thread asked for pics of cabinets in front of low windows, and I found these threads, which might be helpful. The sink in the Remodelista link is so similar to what I was envisioning for your narrow window, although you'd have only 3.25" of cabinet back to cover:

GW--Lauraeds thread and remodel

Remodelista/window in historic house

I had changed the window ledge in the drawing I posted, but If you put a slot for cutting boards or sheet pans at the end, you wouldn't need to change the ledge. That would give you a 12" trash pull-out, which is the size I have. Or you could put the trash in the 15" cabinet to the left of the range.

Also, if you need extra counterspace, you could have a fold down section at the end, which you could pull up when needed. I have a couple of those (the hinge brackets were the less expensive kind--about $16.00 per set), which work well.

That is very interesting how she treated the windows. Now to work on the layout and include both of the "dining nook" windows. Yep that little 5 by 6 area is supposed to be the dining room but since we have never used it we decided to enlarge our kitchen and move down into it.

I basically like what you're considering and am posting to underline my agreement with no angled sink. I have that corner in a tiny vacation kitchen, and if I could make one major change to that kitchen within its footprint it would be to sacrifice what minimal counter space I have to its right to set it in next to the refrigerator.

Note that an angled sink removes inches from the front counter edge to stand and work at, making the entire space work smaller, and it shifts precious counter space to wasted area behind the sink. (I'm short, so it's especially wasted.) Go ahead and measure the counter edge inches with both layouts and see.

Creating one very good, pleasant work space--which you do have in excellent position between sink and stove--would be my first priority. So I'd set the sink on the fridge run wherever you want it. And if the DW has to go under the prep run, oh well. Disadvantages would be offset by the real advantages of a compact work area which are seldom considered these big-kitchen days.

Btw, I predict you'll love your spice and other shallow storage across from the stove. :)

Addendum: I forgot to mention that I'd strongly consider effectively abandoning the corner space under the counter, instead running drawers right up to the corner on one or both sides depending on where the sink was set. My home kitchen has an 18-inch drawer-and-door to provide access to a susan, and even though I think building in a few deep knee bends is a good thing, I'd trade it out in an instant for a high-efficiency 18-inch drawer stack. (I do have a basement pantry for large, seldom-used items.)

I'd also seriously consider putting drawers under the sink. that's extremely, extremely valuable space RIGHT THERE, and just a little kind of the custom attention you've given to between-studs storage would secure it for items you use right there. Most of the chemicals and whatever that typically occupy that space would be better off on broom-closet shelves somewhere else.

I don't think there is elbow room on the fridge wall for the sink. I drew a 30" single bowl, since that's the width of the range, but maybe with a 24" sink it would be more comfortable. One would still need to turn 180° to load the DW, but maybe it could be more easily unloaded to the cabinets above the sink by turning sideways, and using a hand-to-hand motion. The DW could be moved beside the range, for more space to maneuver, but the ergonomics are the same. With the range and sink locations switched, there is no more elbow room, of course, but using the range on the fridge wall does not require turning around and bending down. There would be the minimum recommended landing space on both sides of the range (12" on the right, and more than the minimum 15" on the left), but not the minimum for shared landing space, as I posted above.

If the corner is voided, there will need to be filler on each side, in order for the drawers to open past the handles on the perpendicular run.

DH has nixed the split L idea so I am back where I started. The sink I want requires a 33 inch cabinet, the one he likes requires a 36 inch cabinet. Neither would fit on the north wall with the fridge with any type corner.

And now that he saw the photos of the cabinets by the windows he wants me to try and figure out how to keep them all. Sigh that means I have a whoping 53 inches between windows on the west wall where I can put the stove or fridge.

Are you both totally against having the sink in the nook? You could still have an unbroken L, but you would have only 15" between the range and fridge, as well as only 16" between the sink and wall, with the 33" sink:

You would need a few more inches of filler, so that drawers on the long wall would clear the range handles. (If you make that a dead corner.)

It would be a plumbing nightmare as the nook is over the coal room. Getting from there to a drain pipe would be difficult. wry grin moving the water supply lines or the gas line to that area would be simple. And of course keeping the windows severely limits where I can put wall cabinets.

Would you be open to shelves in front of at least one window? Click for photo examples

yes we were discussing that possibility. Thanks for the link.

Mamagoose I looked into graywater systems and sigh while legal in my state they are not legal n my town. I am also not sure how one would work during our 4 to 6 months of extremely cold weather.