Kitchen Design Alignment Help Needed
We are building a house on an old foundation. The kitchen was designed to have letter box windows above and below cabinets on the north wall which looks onto a green cedar forest. I imagine it as a modern kitchen with high gloss white cabinets across the entire wall, hiding the hood. (see this dream kitchen for inspiration https://www.houzz.com/photos/east-hampton-kitchen-contemporary-kitchen-new-york-phvw-vp~11902813). There is an additional west wall of floor to ceiling pantry cabinets, coffee maker, broom closet as well as where the fridge will go. After engineering, a steel post now forces one of my letterbox windows to be smaller than the other which is creating a design dilemma. There is an 8 and a half ft island as well. We are planning to put the 36 inch range on the north wall, between the lower windows and have a large backsplash to deal with some of balancing issues. The double sink will go on the island. However, I am not sure how to align these different parts, Do I centre the range between the windows and then have sink off centre on island? Centre Range in windows and centre sink on island (despite not being lined up)? Other suggestions? Should I rethink how the cabinets are put in to cover up the oddity? For example open shelves on the end of the longer window? Help please!!
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Michelle Laurie
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Comments (7)Practigal, the DW is one cabinet "south" away from the sink. I have no idea why there is a cabinet between but it's there, marked DW. It's possible the microwave is part of the DO stack. Rascal, do you plan a prep sink in the island? It would make your space more functional and give you a separate prep zone. This way you could have someone prepping, someone else cooking, someone else doing dishes, and someone else baking at the same time and they are all in their own zone. Without a prep sink, people would need to constantly walk over to the sink which adds unnecessary steps to prepping/cooking. And the DW should be right next to the sink....See MoreNeed help with my new kitchen in my new build - cabinet alignment
Comments (15)Thanks for all the comments. I cannot have equal size uppers other than as drawn because of the placement of the window and the beams (it is a new build at the framing stage). I appreciate the comments about the backsplash and need to figure that out. I really do like practigal picture - but the cabinets are the same size but there is more on one side than the other. I do have an island on that is 8 feet by 5 feet and the wall with the range is 20' long....See MoreAlignment issues - I may be insane and need help
Comments (42)Ok, last bit of my lunacy for now. All of the apartment lights are in save one: this little hallway, dimensions ~3x6'. One end will be a door, the other end opens into the apartment. No natural light in there. For storage, mounted on the wall up against the ceiling will be some cabinetry, roughly 12" deep, 2' high, and running the length of the hallway. Enough to clear the door easily. Option 1: A centered light, will no longer be centered once these cabinets are in, and I worry about it looking awkward so close to the cabinets. But then again, it is only upper cabinets. Below the cabinets, I'll install coat hooks, so the area at the bottom will be wider than the top. Option 2: Account for the cabinets, then center the remaining space. So roughly 12" from wall to cabinet. Trouble is without the cabinets being there, this just looks weird! Here is the pic of both options, from both directions. Look for the yellow 4" circle. Help!...See MoreNeed help with kitchen design and our design style
Comments (7)i don't have anything to say about the island, but your options for backsplash are pretty broad. presumably you want the dramatic counter to be the star, in which case your backsplash should play a supporting role -- white, or some cool gray taken from the stone veining. If you want something more unusual, bring in the interest by way of texture -- a shiny or iridescent white, say -- or tile shape -- like fan-shaped tile....See More
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6 years agoI am not a slave to symmetry -- it's balance that we mostly respond to. I think you'll be fine with sink and stove not centered to one another, as long as their relative position (and related things, like how the dishwasher and oven doors align) makes sense functionally.
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Kitchen Addition · More InfoYour windows are cool, and trying to force them to be symmetrical instead of following the architecture will be a pointless disaster. Also note that you're going to have this question again when it comes time to hang your lights -- easier to have something to align them with on the island (i.e., a centered sink) than to be flailing for a logic ...
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6 years agoI wanted to share a photos of the range entered on back wall between windows and the sink centered on the island. If you don't think it looks off...I am considering this as the layout! Thanks all of the input, its been very appreciated.
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