There is not enough space between the fridge and your island, unless you push your island into the "hallway" space. 3 ft fridge+4 ft walkway+5 ft island = 12

I don't think you included the perimeter cabinets on the fridge wall, in the 12' measurement on the plan:

How will your furniture and dining table fit the space that remains?

Sorry for leaving out so many details and being sloppy with my measurement markings... I've been trying to work out the lighting position and my DH recently started questioning the size of the island relative to the overall area. The "drawing" started out being just for the lighting, but I tried to reuse it for this topic...

The fridge will be recessed into the wall so the depth including the handles will be 30". There's 44" between the fridge handles and the counter of the island. The island counter is 56" wide (42" for cabinets + 14" overhang). So from the fridge wall to the edge of the island counter is 130". The "hallway" space starts at 146" from the fridge wall.

We can push the island out a few inches to get the walkway between the fridge closer to 48" and still be inside the "hallway" space, but since we'll have seating on that side of the island, we didn't want the chairs on that side to encroach on that "hallway" space too much. This is why my DH is wondering if our island is too big/wide for this space. :)

There is a 12 foot label spanning across 15 squares. Is each square one foot or are the dimensions mislabeled?

Hi mama goose! We don't yet have a dining table, but we're looking for something counter height and around 30" wide to keep as much space as possible between the island and walkway in front of the french doors. I sketched in a small bar/liquor cabinet I'm planning but there's nothing currently in that space or picked out yet.

I also added how much space our current living room furniture uses, but we're open to changing that as well.

Sorry, yes, each square is 1ft.

what is on the other side of the frig wall? If the wall is an exterior one, I don't believe you can recess it. Perhaps I am wrong...

So will the living room space be used for watching TV? If so, where will that be? Over the fireplace? That's a long way across the room, and the people sitting on the long side (which is the majority) of the sectional won't be facing it.

Sorry, that doesn't really answer your island question, but the space looks a little awkward to me.

Yes, I got to 42" by adding the 24" and 18" cabinet widths of cabinets 8 and 10. And yes, there will be a panel on the "dining room" sides of cabinets 7 and 9, the living room side of cabinet 10, and kitchen side of cabinet 8. I didn't think about the 1" overhang on the working sides of the island, thanks!

I've seen the recommended minimum overhang for counter height seating is 15", and we "field tested" some of the kitchen displays at IKEA. None of them were 15" (two were between 11" and 13") and they didn't feel narrow or awkward even for my DH who is 6'1". I was hoping to save an 1"-1.5" there if possible.

This home was built in 1952, and we learned after our first winter in the house last year that the exterior walls are not insulated... We've been told by one contractor that he can install a header and remove the studs, so we're planning on recessing about 3".

Yes, the TV is over the fireplace. There's a 5'x10' window on the adjacent wall, so it's pretty much the only place it can go. Well, it could go on the opposite wall ("dining" room side), and we tried that for a while, but it made the space feel even more awkward.

There's also just two of us, and we don't watch much TV. When we entertain, the TV isn't usually on so we don't need lots of seating facing the TV.

It looks like you have enough *space* for your large island, but I just wanted to make sure you've thought through how you will use a piece of furniture that size? We were touring a neighbour's house the other day with an island about 5' x11', and although it looked great, the wife noted that it was totally impractical: she could hardly push a plate across it to the other side! She had no idea how she'd ever clean it without getting up on top of it. :) YMMV, but just something to think about. In many gardens, the standard width is 4', because 2' is as far as the average person can reach from either side. I'm not sure I'd want to go much deeper than 48", unless the island was only 5-6' long...

I think I would make a U and the top of the U is the range wall. Extend the side of the U which contains seating to about 9 or 10 feet out from wall A. You will clear some floorspace for the dining zone by French door. You have about 6 feet usable space in plan you show for a table and chairs...just not feasible. Anyone who would look at this floor plan could not stage a dining setup in 6ft of width. You cannot only think of the needs of two people when putting in infrastructure which is what a kitchen is. You can reduce number of cabinets and use open shelves or tweak the sink size or place a standard fridge vs oversized fridge, but no workable dining zone??...big flaw.