You did great with the images! If its possible to post a floor plan of the cabinets, people commenting will be better informed. For example, it's not possible to know spacing from looking at a 3d view - they are wildly deceptive at trying to figure out stuff like how wide the aisles are. 3D views are good for checking elevations and mass. I am a critical person, so hang in there! I'm not trying to be snarky - except in fun. I'm saying all this stuff so you know and can choose well. The very first thing that hit me is there needs to be a relationship between the height of the windows and the heights of the cabinets (matching heights and perhaps a small crown on the windows). Can your windows be taller? Also, I'm not sure there's any reason why the one wall cabinet on the sink side is taller? The micro, the ovens, the pantry and the ref form the Bermuda triangle of doors. The oven and pantry doors can collide and using one prevents using the other. The oven and ref doors can collide and using one sometimes prevents using the other. The micro door looks like it can hit a seated person. I'm not really sure what will happen when people are seated at the island while you're trying to finish up a meal? Between the ref doors and the micro and the seated person, how much room is left for the chef to get to the ref and take something out? As I said above, its not possibly to evaluate the aisle widths, but you'd need something like a 5' aisle on that side to accommodate all that stuff and actually be able to use it. This is a crazy thing to say, but partly because a lotta stuff is piled up together in that corner, I think there is a lot of walking attached to this design. People who want something to drink have to walk around the island to dish storage and walk around the island to the ref and then go back to their place. The chef gotta walk to the ref, at least half the time back to the sink, over to the island for prep and then to the cooktop. So I wonder if dish storage and ref and micro could be on the same face of the island. I wonder if clean up should be moved to the longer run of counters and storage that wraps the outer corner. I wonder if the island needs a sink? Because without it, I wonder if you'll use the island much. I realize that your answer on moving the cleanup sink might be horrors! But, as you work in your current kitchen, notice how much of the time you're near the sink for preparation tasks versus actual cleaning of the dishes. Lastly, I wonder if the room could have more windows?

what is the wood species of your island....and what is the perimeter in your space? I think because it's the island, I might pick a slightly lighter stain and have them glaze it,as long as you have some detail for the glaze to lay on. For an island, this kind of a detail, not complicated to achieve ,would be actually easier at this point than the trial and error trying to find just the right pigment to"allow" grain toshow......and really on the island, being below counter, not sure it's going to be appreciated so much...up on the walls where light hits and your eyes naturally get the full on view is a different matter. It's just going to look dark below the counter once you go that dark with an all over stain.....so add café or dark bronze glaze to a medium-dark stain......easy!

Thank you for doing those images @mommyjoy!!! They are so lovely looking and I agree once some of the larger elements(rugs, furniture) are in place I will use accessories to tie it together. @aktillery9 I do love the rug but it may turn out to not work so great. I have a round rug if you can see in the wide angle image that is grey and purple with a vintage feel. When I think about the rugs together it makes no sense but when I see them next to one another I think they do work. Hopefully it does work as @mommyjoy said there is a vintage theme going on too. Next up is my floor plan! In looking at the room do any of you have ideas for how it should flow and how the placement should go? As I wrote it is a bit of a challenge, large room but not huge, not super narrow but not wide with walls of windows looking at the water and that alcove. I can take more photos if that would help any of you help me! Thanks!

The plates have a blue rim don't they? If so I think a darkish blue/grey such as hicks blue or juniper ash by Little Greene with bronze accents. I will send some pics shortly to illustrate the theme I'm proposing. I would keep the red to a bare minimum... just on the plates.