I think you should reconsider the distance between the sink and the stove. It seems a bit far.

Also, the distance between the refrig and where you can put things down as you put away and take things out. ( terrible sentence structure, I know) Think about how you move about the kitchen to cook, serve and clean up.

Also, with a drawer microwave you don’t really bend down, you look down, and maybe reach down. Much easier and safer than reaching up. Get one with the control panel angled up.

In general - you want to prep near a water source. Your current layout, to me, will naturally have you prepping in that TINY space between the fridge and the sink.

Putting the ovens and the fridge on the periphery is a good move, and the fridge will be accessible by folks without getting in the way of the action - GOOD!

I am fine with the micro in the butlers pantry - but it may be inconvenient because anyone that wants to use it to warm something or pop some popcorn will have to traverse the main area. Also - if you are loading the DW, you're disrupting a LOT of flow and it's a major trip hazard.

You have a lot of counter and very little convenient prep space. You have all the features, but the workspace isn't well laid out. You should post an overhead, dimensioned drawing to Kitchens. This will not be a happy place to cook.

Thanks everyone. just_janni I posted the overhead drawing per your suggestion.

can you make that larger????

Place the sink so when you are standing at the sink you look straight forward at something other than a wall, for starters.

We just put an under the counter microwave in our new kitchen island and LOVE IT. Tell your husband to get over the bending down issue, unless he is 7' tall that is not an issue. Do not like the microwave by the sink, makes the area seem crowded and would be too far from the prep area by the stove. IF you did an under the counter microwave I would put it at the end of the island near the ovens.

I will say that the way your kitchen is set up in the floor plan you posted is nice and very workable. You have a good prep zone and clean up zone and I think the island is close enough to the refigerator to act as a landing zone if you don't want to use the area next to the sink. I am also one of the people that did not want anything in my island (like the cooktop or sink). You have good prep space on each side of the stove and good access to the sink from the dining area. If you keep the sink and dishwasher as in the first layout you can use the closest end of the island or the cabinets/drawers to the right of the stove for dish storage for quick unloading from the dishwasher. I actually like having my silverware and dishes nearer to the food prep area to grab a spoon for tasting or get dishs or bowls to serve from the stove. I would also make the cabinet between the sink and the refigerator your trash pull out. Having a trash pull out near the sink is wonderful for after meal cleanup.

The one big thing I would change (having just done my own kitchen) is to make ALL the lower cabinets drawers. I did this and you can store so much more and get to it way easier. The lower cabinets in my old kitchen were standard doors with pullouts inside. Did not like this as much as the drawers, you had to open both doors then side out the pullout. AND If you did not get the pull out pushed all the way back in when you finished, it would mess up the inside of the doors.

I would suggest you also post this in the kitchen forum where the gurus hang out.

Where will you prep?

What does the 2D layout look like and how does it relate to the rest of the house?

You can't design a kitchen in a vacuum. It has to relate to the other rooms too.

Most of us take food out of the fridge, move it to the sink to wash, then prep between sink and cooktop and then cook the food at the cooktop. So once again, you have no space for prepping.