This is the range we ordered but in a more creamy white(it’s a custom color so not on their website or magazine).

Cool features are hidden cabinet paper tower rolls, hidden wall-in pantry door, cutting board with a hole and rubbish cans below, the dish washer, microwave, and refrigerator will all be panel ready, spice rack drawer, 2-level deep drawer for mixing spoons, ladles, etc., pull-out drawers.

Anything else you can think of that would make this kitchen better?

With the wider island, how wide will your aisles be, especially keeping in mind the handles for the dishwasher and refrigerator?

The aisles appear to be much too small.

If we make it 9 ft. The aisles will be 3.5 ft. If we make the island 8 ft., it’s 4 ft. on each side. The space between the oven wall and the island is 5 ft.

What’s through the doorway at the top of the layout?

I would think about having the trash closer to the action vs on the end of the DW/sink run - maybe the last cabinet of the island, closest to the cleanup sink

Also, given the large pantry, I might forgo the corner lower cabinet and instead blank it, and widen the two cabinets on either side of the corner (related: having lots of drawers!)

Do you have a roll out trashcan next to the prep sink ?

In a large kitchen like that, the aisles should be at least 48", measured from counter to counter, do 51" cabinet box to cabinet box. 54" in front of the fridge. The handles stick out, and that is a high traffic location.

For such a large and very expensive kitchen, it's not very well designed. You'd benefit from working with a good Kitchen Designer.

Are you measuring aisles cabinet to cabinet (most common), counter edge to counter edge (better), or counter edge to appliance handles (best)? I would not go less than 48" if you're measuring cabinet to cabinet, as that will become notably smaller once you take out space for cabinet handles (say 3") and counter overhang on each side (say 1.5" x 2). Then you're down to 42", which too me would be too tight in a space where you have refrigerator and dishwasher doors opening. Also, think about the specific refrigerator you'll have, and how far it will extend beyond the cabinets - the one you show eats up even more inches of your aisles.

The corner cabinet between the sink and the range.

Also, I would get a mock up where the upper cabinets on the left of the range go to the corner bs stopping short as shown now

Has anyone pointed out the size (large) and shape (segmented) of the work triangle (in red)? If the work triangle is large, the cook could be doing a lot of walking in performing normal tasks in the kitchen. If the work triangle is not in the form of a triangle, that means there is not a direct path from work areas and the cook will be walking around the obstacle that cause the work triangle to not be a triangle.

Seeing the difference in the sizes of the appliances between the plan (by House designer) and the perspectives (by the cabinet company) makes me wonder if the kitchen is sized and configured properly. But perhaps you were in on all the decisions and are aware of all the ramifications of them.

The OP indicated that they will be installing a prep sink in the island (marked as the red rectangle).

Awesome pantry!!! Like all the drawers.

For overall layout, I like the sink between the fridge & stove ("ice-water-fire").

While I think odd #'s of things look better, imho, the 3 upper doors to right & left of stove look busy and I prefer larger cabs as they are more versatile and there is less wasted space.

For your garage / mudroom, it ~appears~ that one has to go away from the kitchen/house to de-shoe and de-coat and then turn around and walk past the garage door to enter the house. I would be concerned about that if that is the case.

Also, would disagree with Hansen that there have been any ‘very negative’ responses

God help us. Forget the imfamous kitchen work triangle. It's dated (and was only really designed for small kitchens). Most of us who actually cook spend a lot of time in the prep area so you want to optimize fridge to prep (both countertop and sink) to cooking appliances (and it's rare that you go from the stove back to the fridge frequently). We also factored in the clean up area (landing zone, sink, dishwasher) into our plans. We also set up a "coffee" area next to the fridge at the "fringe" of the kitchen so people fetching drinks don't interfere with the real chefs.

My wife hates corners so both our blind corners have appliance garages and the three corners have cute little slide out rev-a-shelf contractions to allow full access to the back areas.

We like our "next to the stove" cabinets as that's where the oils and spices go that are frequently used there.

Sarah

I have a somewhat similar kitchen layout. I love your hidden pantry door. My pantry is also behind my long kitchen wall, but too late for me to do the hidden door. I have a coffee station behind the cabinetry, so there would not be a small counter in front of the upper cabinet; but, maybe this picture will give you an idea of what it would look like with the stick out wall. I think it will look fine?

Also, I have 47" from my counter to cabinet (43" from refrigerator handles to countertop) and it is perfect for us. I probably would not want to do any smaller. Good luck.

I wish you would re-consider the entry in the middle of your kitchen. For a high-end build it is really not good.

We actually designed it like this on purpose, we love it! Our floor plan is modeled after a high end parade of home a few years back and they had it like this and so does my friend who owns a 5 million dollar home herself and builds award winning multi-million dollar homes, she even said she never thought that or knew people thought that. The garage and the side door will mainly be used by just our family and I love that it’s close to the garage so are not walking a long distance to unload groceries, and the kids come home from school and walk into the mudroom which leads straight into the kitchen so I’ll be the first person they see right when they come home and I’ll be able to greet them to ask how their day was and they can’t avoid me! Haha

I hear ya-I like a kitchen entrance, just at the end of the cabinets. Not interrupting the kitchen.