Putting your refrigerator against an outside wall with the entry door opening against it will not only bang up your refrigerator but could also make it difficult for you to open your refrigerator doors entirely in order to remove the shelves and/or veggie drawers for a thorough cleaning if your refrigerator hinge were to be on the left. What is outside that exterior door -- any chance it is a porch or deck and you could change the hinged door for a sliding glass one? If you know you will have a double door refrigerator, and since you could clean shelves without removing them, the remaining concern would be if you were planning to put a wall on the right side of the refrigerator. Wouldn't; just leave the side of the refrigerator show between the countertop and overhead cabinet and set your refrigerator far enough out so the cabinets don't interfere with opening the refrigerator door all the way. Consider moving your wall ovens to the right: have the wall to the right of your wall ovens be even with the opening to the right of it so that you can put a wider countertop between the cooking surface and the ovens. You need space to set a large heavy pot on both sides of any cooktop. Is the dining area within this kitchen your only dining area? If not, you might well consider other alternatives in lieu of both an island and a table -- you could create one very long island ... ... but only put base cabinets in the one end of it nearest the sink; ... or put base cabinets only on each end and put your beverage fridge on one end and other storage in the other end; ... or you could put your base cabinets and beverage fridge only in the middle with a "pedestal" table in the "dining" end of the kitchen and, perhaps, a "desk" end or a pedestal for seating for two nearer to the sink. http://xlian.me/the-most-attractive-bar-height-kitchen-table-island-home-decor/kitchen-island-ideas-breakfast-bar-kitchen-island-spectacular-in-bar-height-kitchen-table-island-prepare/ You can keep the island countertop a rectangle the same width for its entire length and/or have it widen beyond the double ovens and still have room for your six chairs. In a smaller kitchen, if at all possible, round the four corners of any rectangular island.

I showed a photo upthread of a round drop-leaf table. If you have another dining area, I think most people looking at your room would wonder why the heck it is so important to smoosh everyone into THIS room to eat? The only table I'd have in this room is one that (a) doubles as a work surface, and (b) folds up and/or slides over easily out of the way of the cooking zone, and I'd think of it as a space for reading and having coffee, or kids having a snack after school. Maybe one kid could do hw there. A kitchen is a work room...especially a kitchen on the smaller side. Imagine having 6 (or even 4) people dining in your kitchen with that table in there now--how would the cook grab the desserts or a forgotten condiment out of the refrigerator? The aisle would be impassable, imho.

I agree, new cabs are better than those 35 years old things. there are plenty of decent, solid wood cabinets available. you don't have to get them from lowes either. my kitchen painter guys I went with (and had mine refaced) got solid maple (paintable) shaker style. they are very nicely made. That is something you can consider if keeping the same layout. Are the bases solid wood and decent shape? just have everything refaced, and modified to add drawers to the bottom. if keeping it that way, you could do a bar top overhang to hide the dishes and have seating. (ignore the design choices) however, with all the room you have, I'd think about expanding. you currently have a G, not a U. you can look up G kitchens and get some ideas if you like. could you put in a window on that wall? (the cabinet wall. could you put in a window?) for instance, if you extended your cabs down to the right, you could put in a window and put your sink under it.: this just shows if you did a window in your current placement. is that possible? trying to show if you extended them down the wall, maybe do a pantry on the end if you need it, and a window and sink in the middle. then do a little built in nook/banquette at the end of the cabinet run: Or extending the cabs down to the Family sign, and create a large island where you can sit and eat. Put a nice large sink in the island. don't even look at the next pic's design choices, just look at the layout. if you extended the kitchen down, made an island w/sink, and did a built in or a table and chairs by the window. looks like this: think about doing a built in banquette breakfast area over by the windows

You can do what MR suggests as long as you don't make your island any bigger. You can't extend your island into that space without either reducing the width of the island or squeezing your aisles (12.5-25"-3.5'-3.5' = 3'-5" - that's really not big enough to have a walkway to an exterior door, especially with island seating...and that's using the bare minimum island and aisle widths. So, you'd have to keep your island from extending into that space. You'd probably need to keep it M/L where it is now. If you still want to extend the kitchen and put the sink under those windows, I would keep a prep sink in the island so you still have a water source that's not so far outside the work zone of your kitchen. Regarding the windows...if you decide not to extend the kitchen, north facing windows would be fine in that corner. I do not think they'll impact TV viewing that much...and if you find they do, you can get some shades for them. Same goes for adding them near the cooktop/oven.