Stove in island, peninsula, or other counter opening into living area.
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Suggestions for more counter space (peninsula, base cabinet, etc)
Comments (14)Thanks everyone for your feedback. To answer some questions, I'm afraid the item posted by remodelfla is very cool, but way to big for the situation, plus I don't see how having the counter move in and out is that big of a help because you still have to stash the chairs somewhere. For those interested, here is the actual link to that product: http://www.wolffurniture.com/Item.aspx?ItemID=-1994755930&ItemNum=4024-505%2b2x591. For morgne's question, the only thing I am changing is the 3 ft wall where we removed the pipe, the rest of the cabinets are staying put.(though I know they are not perfect, but I'm not doing a complete kitchen makeover.)...See MoreLayout Help - Deepen Peninsula Sink Counter
Comments (50)Be careful...29" deep cabinets won't be particularly useful unless you can get drawer glides that are long enough to handle 5 extra inches. I know you can for 27" cabinets. You would be better off doing what I show...27" deep cabinets (which I'm pretty sure KraftMaid has). In my layout, you have 2 drawer bases in addition to the sink base and trash pullout. In fact, I would check to see if KraftMaid offers a trash pullout that opens from the front and the back. If not, could your GC modify it to work that way? You might also check to see if KraftMaid has sink base cabinets that open that way as well...then you could (1) easily access the plumbing and (2) easily access items in the back....See MoreBacksplash or Open Counter - Which Should I Go With
Comments (32)I am turning the entire back of the dining area into storage by effectively extending the kitchen but it will have more of a furniture look with glass doors on the upper middle cabinets with glass shelves and lighting. blondanonima - I do think you are right that somehow a flat counter seems forced into a kitchen area that wasn't meant to have one level expanse. I've only seen one unit in which it seemed as though the one level unit was meant to be in that space and that person took down all the soffits - and since those soffits contain HVAC ducts, that is a bridge too far for me :-). I am incorporating the soffits into the design of the kitchen which now has a standard hideous dropped ceiling with fluorescent lights above with a coved ceiling. The soffits will be reworked with lighting both up to accent the ceiling and ambient for good lighting. I will also have under counter lighting. dtrivino - I am pretty sure of my eclectic taste :-) and much as I would love a pink refrigerator from Big Chill, it's just one of many design elements I love but have to forego such as recycled glass concrete counters - again amazing but would like ridiculous. aziline The stove (along with other elements of my current kitchen hovel was difficult to replace as each element taken out would have required something else to be done - the stove would have required new cabinetry and the people who installed my old wood floor had installed the wood in front of part of it. There was so much dysfunction that I had to wait until it could be gutted because fixing or replacing one element was too difficult. I did replace the DW because those are all standard 24" openings. The stove served me very well in terms of function as I really honed my cooking and baking skills over the years and there really isn't anything that I didn't make - about the only thing it couldn't do was really high heat wok cooking but I don't think any non-professional stove without at least a wok burner has that capability. I'm attaching pictures of the proposed design of the new kitchen. As you can see the "stove/oven" wall will be one wall of cabinets. Because it extends into the dining area, I want it to have somewhat more of a look of furniture which is why I think I will go with inset doors with very discreet hinges. Cabinets will be frameless so that my drawers can maximize interior space. Those upper cabinets with inset doors would not be a big issue in terms of storage as I currently have framed boxes and just fit plates or whatever behind the frames somewhat so that the interior interior space is used. And the design of that thing over the sink is NOT the design I would opt for. It's just there as a place keeper. If you look at the picture of the short china cabinet, I have the same type of visual demarcation using an old stained glass window I rescued years ago. This is my floor plan This is floor plan WITHOUT the cabinet replacing the bar space This is my approved design for cabinets which shows the cabinets extending into the dining area. This is the approved cabinet design for the "sink" wall showing an elevated ledge and backsplash. I am having a paneled French door refrigerator installed - the KA or equivalent Jennair which is 72" instead of the standard 69". More storage interior and if I ever swap refrigerators, the shorter one would fit into the higher space anyway. Slightly off topic but the design now has the French Door Refrigerator abutting a wall which frames the entrance from the foyer of the apartment to the kitchen. I am concerned about it opening adequately. It requires 10" of clearance to open 125º and 3" to open 90º which would enable all drawers to be pulled out. I am thinking of having the wall cut down so that there is no obstruction at all for the refrigerator door as there would be a much wider opening and no wall. Structurally this is fine as my interior walls are non-load bearing and are just there to create enclosed areas. Again, that decorative thing is NOT the design at all but just put in as a place marker to indicate something will go there that is not a wall but still somewhat blocks the kitchen visually....See MoreNeed color for open kitchen/living area with a blue stove
Comments (22)jrb, here's a quick picture of the range and some of the rest of the area (dining and living room). It's not all one large space, the dining room is around one corner from the kitchen and the living room is around the other, and the kitchen and part of the living room aren't visible to each other. I/we've had the same furniture, adding and inheriting pieces, since I graduated from university in the mid-eighties. But all a pretty similar mix, from my first apartments in DC and NYC, and then our first house here on the farm. And I started with yellow walls in my NYC co-op and loved how they looked. I'm slowly hanging pictures, and hoping to get Roman shades for the dining room windows. Just for reference, the plan is for Tabarka "Maghreb" tiles on the backsplash, if I can find them around here....See MoreRelated Professionals
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