Need help with kitchen design.
We are planning a kitchen remodel and I’d love to get your
layout suggestions and ideas. The kitchen and
dining room will be gutted and rebuilt.
The kitchen is in the middle of the house. The sunroom and
great room were additions. There are no windows in the kitchen, only doors. The
kitchen is on the right and the dining room is on the left, currently separated
by a wall that we will remove. We would like to have a large comfortable table
in the dining room that we actually use.
These are some of our wants...
30” – 36” stove/oven with range hood on the right wall.
Island eating space for 3-4
Wall cabinet pantry storage
We don’t need a double oven, but I’m not against it.
Giant single bowl sink, 36” wide would be great.
We are a family of five and we don’t hang out much in the
kitchen. This is probably because the surrounding rooms are very useful and
there is no seating currently in the kitchen. We will probably do hardwood to
match the rest of the house in both the kitchen and dining room. The house is about 5000sqft with 5 bedrooms, pool, patio, deck overlooking the water. The current kitchen is the weak point of the entire house. The budget is from $40,000 to $80,000. We haven't looked into prices too much yet.
All measurements are in inches measured from the outside of
the door trim. The ceiling is 8 feet tall.
I’m looking forward to your ideas and thanks for the help!
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6 years ago
herbflavor
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6 years agoThe master is above the kitchen. There is a step down to the
sunroom and it is floor to ceiling windows. Photo of the kitchen from door to
the mudroom. Photos of the sunroom and great room also. You can see the dining
room through the door in the left of the kitchen photo and also from the great
room through the sliding glass doors. The difference in light between the
kitchen/dining room and great room/sunroom is striking. But the most logical space to open up is the kitchen/dining room because the dining room and hallway behind the
fridge are 280 sqft in the middle of the house that are used just to get from
one side of the house to the other. Groceries come in through the mudroom. I'll work on a first floor schematic.
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