I am not a layout guru, but I have a similar layout, so I'll chime in. It looks like your range wall is longer than mine by about 18 inches (it would be helpful if you could post dimensions, including the window and door locations). I tried to come up with a layout for my kitchen that included an island, but in the end I decided that I needed a minimum of 2 more feet of length on my range wall to make an island work and not have too-tight aisle widths. I stuck with the peninsula. But again, it sounds like you have more room than me for the island. Aisle widths: I would stick with the wider aisles and 2 foot island. Buehl has already pointed out that your fridge is going to stick out into the aisle quite a bit. My countertop-to-countertop aisle width between the end of my peninsula and fridge wall is 37.5 inches, and I wish it were wider. It's really only wide enough for one person at a time (and we're average size), or two if we turn sideways. I can't imagine my entire kitchen with aisles that wide. I suggest you mock it up with boxes to get the feel of it. I have 2 teen boys, and I don't think we would be happy with even the 40.5 inch aisles. If you've got anything open (dishwasher, fridge, a drawer, pantry cabinet door), that aisle is blocked, especially if there is a person in front of it. My 16 year old empties the DW and he really wants everyone out of the kitchen when he does this 3 minute job. But I have to admit that he's got a point - if someone does even a simple task (like get a bowl of ice cream), it's hard to not get in his way. That said, there are plenty of happy GWers with narrow aisles. You should be able to search and find several postings on this (use google to search. The GW search does not work well). Fridge wall: I didn't go with wall ovens (is one your microwave? If not, where will your microwave go?) - I have a range. I have a 42 inch pantry cabinet (food storage was an issue for us before the remodel. We kept extra food in the basement and it was a real PITA), then the counter depth fridge, then 48 inches of regular base/wall cabinets. The base/wall cabinets are on the foyer entry end and the pantry is on the end with the doorway to the dining room. I totally agree with you that our 48" countertop there is a clutter catcher spot, but I just make sure that I keep it tidy. The mail, etc. is going to plopped somewhere. I'd just as soon it be there than my peninsula (or island, in your case). I find that it's a great space to sort through the mail, pay bills, any paperwork that needs a little spreading out room, but we don't have a study or desk elsewhere for that type of work. I keep a few office supplies in the drawers below, and we charge our phones in a drawer there and put our keys there. The reason that we put it on the foyer hallway end is that we wanted a more open feeling when we entered the kitchen from the foyer, rather than a full height cabinet like a pantry. I also agree that you will use your island as your fridge landing space, for the same reasons that blfenton mentioned. I use my peninsula. Doorway to the dining room: I think I know where buehl is going with moving the doorway to the dining room because that is the same advice we got when I posted my layout pre-remodel. In our case, our dining room is quite small, so moving the doorway down would have meant squeezing past the dining room table. We also had hvac issues that would have made this option costly, so we didn't move the doorway. But for kitchen functionality, it really looked like this would have been a great layout. Range wall: I don't really have a suggestion because my situation is different from yours (I have a range and regretfully, an OTR MW, compared to your cooktop/vent). But I have skinny upper cabinets on the sides of my range. I store spices in one, and a mish-mash of coffee, flour, sugar, and measuring cups in the other. This set-up works ok, but skinny cabinets are not ideal. I have one skinny base cabinet on one side of my range that has a 2-tier pullout for oils, vinegars, etc, which I like a lot. The other side of my range has my corner susan door. Question: Can you move/enlarge/add on to your window so that you could shift your sink down? The best prep space is usually between the sink and cooktop, but you don't have all that much room there. That way you could also eliminate that blind corner cabinet (I am assuming that's what that is next to the range) and perhaps go with a corner susan. I would consider DW on the end, then sink, trash, drawer stack, corner susan. Good luck!

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You can also get shallower boxes if it helps. Note, however that you must watch box fill on the small boxes. Typically you can only get the device and one cable in such (i.e., you must make junctions elsewhere). There are other considerations. Make sure your box is close enough to the countertop surface vertically (12") and that there isn't excessive overhang (6").

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