Help with small kitchen layout! emergency!
Doug Crites
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Comments (7)Seems to make sense to have a range instead of separate cooktop and ovens. In that third option, could you put the fridge where the 36 base and wall cab are by themselves and turn it so the door(s) open towards the range wall? Looks like you even have enough floor space to have a pull out pantry between the fridge and the wall ( have to have something there for door swing clearance anyway). That way if someone wants something from the fridge, they won't be opening it into where you are working. And if you went with a counter depth french door, the doors shouldn't encroach on the doorway much if at all. Then you could slide the range down to the right, get rid of the 12" base and wall cabs and have a nicer sized one to the right of the stove. If you wanted, you might be able to have a very shallow platter display cabinet on the side of the fridge that faces the DW, too. I guess that would depend on the width of the fridge....See MoreLayout help needed for small kitchen remodel
Comments (16)lol. Ok, the island was a bad idea. I got carried away and forgot that I'm design-challenged. But if anyone has a counter height table to sell, I'll take 2. bmore, I get the message. I'll take a few pictures of the space and try to post them by the end of the weekend. To answer the questions: The little piece of wall only juts out about 2 1/2" so it's not to scale in my drawing. It's actually one wall that runs the entire length of the living room and the kitchen. It juts out that way to create a small alcove where the large window is. A picture would definitely help :o). The slider door opens from the left side, not the right. Yes, it would be possible to switch out the slider for a French door and window if we decide to include walls and windows in the remodel. No dining room, unfortunately. The fridge swings the way angie drew it in her layout, which I like for the reasons lavender mentioned. It follows the rules so DH will love it. Thanks for your layout, angie. lavender_lass - thanks for the advice. We've been slowly renovating over the last 10 years and last but not least is the kitchen. We're happy here but DH thinks we could use an extra bedroom, which is why we'd consider moving. DH and I will firm up the scale and budget for this remodel now instead in January. It'll be so much easier to choose the direction we want to go in with these layout options. I'll have an update real soon.......See MoreNeed layout help for small/budget kitchen
Comments (22)You're welcome! Since the slider opens on the left, I think they can increase the seating overhang to as much as 18" and be okay with a 36" aisle for the seating area. That would give them a bit more counter buffer between seating and sink. I tried a few other ideas to see if I could move at least the sink off the peninsula but I wasn't thrilled with the results. Still, it's not my kitchen so I'll throw them out here for you to consider. I reduced the sink cab from 36" to 30" to keep the 30" drawer cab to the left of the sink. The con is that there's a lot of twisting from sink to DW to load the DW but moving the sink farther from the corner meant shrinking the prep space between sink and range quite a bit. Ikea uppers are 15" deep so I only put cabs on each side of the sink not over the sink. They could put open shelves above the sink for dishware and glasses but with dogs, open storage for these items might not be a good plan. They should also carefully consider what they'll store on the shelving to the right of the range. Plan CI moved the sink and DW to the perimeter, shrinking the sink cab to 24" (still a stock size from Ikea). To gain enough clearance between DW and range, I shrunk the peninsula cabs from 24" deep to 15" deep. Ikea offers this depth in 15" and 30" widths. Yes, this means that the DW is in the prep zone but an open DW won't block peninsula cabs. IOW, they won't have to unload the DW, close it before putting items away into the peninsula cabs. If that's not a big deal and they'd rather not have the DW in the prep zone, they can swap DW and sink. That does shrink prep space between sink and range, though. It's all trade-offs and they'll have to figure out which ones they prefer to make. To make up for loss of drawer and upper storage, I added two 15" deep, 15" wide floor to ceiling pantry cabs. The peninsula is shorter to allow for the depth of these cabs. It can still seat 3, just cozier than with a 90" long peninsula. Ikea hack: reduce the depth of a 24" w x 24" deep base cab with shelves to 15" deep and use it in place of Ikea's stock 15" w x 15" d base cab under the peninsula facing the seating to get the most storage possible in this area. One last option requires 2 hacks to make Ikea cabs work.The first hack requires modifying a 38 x 38 corner Susan cab into a corner sink cab. It will mean a smaller sink than you'd get in a 36" sink cab but likely the same size as in a 24" sink cab, especially if they do a drop in sink. The 2nd hack is reducing the depths of two 15" w x 15" d pantry cabs (with shelves, not drawers) to 12". Ikea offers one that has glass doors in the middle section if they want to create a dish hutch. The aisle between peninsula and pantry cabs shrinks to 37" but with there's a decent aisle between fridge and peninsula so doable, IMO. Oops, I forgot to note that the trash goes under the sink. You'll only get one pull-out and you'll need to work around the disposal and drain. Have fun sorting through the possibilities! Oops, I forgot to add peninsula depths. In Plans A, B, and D, it's 40 1/2". In Plan C, it's 31 1/2"....See MoreHelp with Kitchen Layout- Small Original(?) Kitchen in 1930's Cottage
Comments (2)New proposed layout. I did a mock up in in the IKEA home planner but it will most likely use a local cabinet company....See MoreJennifer Hogan
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