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New Construction Kitchen Layout: Need critiqued!
Comments (8)I tried to fit the peninsula into your layout, but I'm not sure it works. My kitchen was actually a little smaller, but open to the hallway with a shallow pantry across the hallway. My isles were not the standard 42 inches, but they worked well in the kitchen (better than the the kitchen I have now with the 42 inch clearance) The stove sink and peninsula as drawn are similar to what i had. I'm not sure you have room for the bar seating in front of the sink. My fridge was a little further from where I drew yours and I'm not sure if where I put it is ideal. Also I took another foot from your garage to give you extra width. I am definitely not an expert in this area. I went to a couple of kitchen designers to get layout help before we finalized the floor plan and one designer was excellent and had great ideas. Actually, I like your original floor plan and shallow pantry. Putting a 30 in cabinet next to the fridge should help when setting things down and using the fridge. I don't think you've allowed enough room on either side of your stove and I don't think I would want to switch it with the sink....See MorePlease critique our new build kitchen layout from architect
Comments (2)I cannot read details on your plan, but I have a few questions to start things off. Those better at this than I will follow. 1. Do you want to cleanup on the island? That is where the DW is, I think. And do you want to prep on the blank perimeter wall where the other sink is shown? I wouldn't. 2. Do you need two such large sinks? I wouldn't. A smaller sink on the island for prep, a single sink large enough for any cooking utensils for cleanup. I would not want a double sink. 3. Why not make the island wide enough for seating as you perhaps suggested? With the space you have, I would. 4. Are most of the base cabinets drawers? 5. Is there a pantry somewhere where you can store cleaning supplies--mops, brooms, vacuums? The 2 foot wide one seems skimpy. Can you repost somehow so we can read the details on the plan? Did your architect supply you with elevations? Can you post them?...See MoreCritique my kitchen layout, please!
Comments (20)I've been playing around with our kitchen layout, taking into account all the great advice given above, and here's the new layout we like the best: We've decided to go with a 48" Miele dual-fuel range (with convection oven + speed oven; 6 gas burners + griddle), which has allowed us to free up space along the fridge wall to fit in a walk-in pantry, which we think will be a huge benefit in this space (hide many of our countertop appliances, along with providing out-of-sight storage for a small countertop microwave and all my baking tools & supplies). We've also added a shallow reach-in pantry on the other side of the island, which we'll use as our food pantry. We've added a prep sink, as suggested (and I think we'll add a single dishwasher drawer in the island, in addition to our standard dishwasher along the perimeter). The overall layout of the design seems like it will work well for the way we use our kitchen. I've also compiled an inventory of everything in our kitchen and have virtually "put away" everything into the cabinets and pantries and we have plenty of storage where we need it for each zone. Note that my drawing may not be precisely to scale (I'm not living in our house right now, so can't take my own measurements and we're working with a designer who is perfect for our project for a variety of other reasons, but she's not a great kitchen designer -- nor is she a cook/baker and I am both --, so I've based my drawing on the initial drawings from her and have then played around with it in Illustrator, as I'm a graphic designer and that's what I know). So some measurements may be a tiny bit off. Once we are happy with our layout, our designer will have proper drawings done based on exact measurements. Regarding windows: the main perimeter wall in the kitchen is the side wall of our house and is only about 5' away from our neighbours' side wall, which is a massive wall of brick, so we have no view along that wall. Our current plan is to close of the two large existing windows to allow for this new layout, but to add back a small window about the clean-up sink to make it feel more open above the sink (although not a great view, but we'll address that with the glass or window treatments somehow). We get a TON of natural light that floods in from the back of the house (right side of my drawing, which faces south-west), through the double french doors and the new huge picture window we're adding, so I'm not too concerned about the kitchen's light situation -- I think (I hope!) we'll have lots of natural light, even with removing the two existing windows (which currently don't provide a ton of natural light, despite their size). I'd appreciate any further advice/suggestions from all of you who are so experienced in this area, before we go ahead and finalize this layout, in case there is anything further we haven't thought of for improving the function of this space. Thank you so much!!...See MoreCritique my Kitchen layout, we want a WOW! room
Comments (16)@anj_p I've been flipping the sink/DW placement back and forth. your suggest make sense and would make the sink a little closer to the fridge. @Piney Jim and @tozmo1 The view is looking out over SFbay and beyond to the east bay hills. So making the doors and window as big as possible is our goal. I like the idea of pass thru windows about the counters. We're in Redwood City it has the motto "Climate best by government test". Nobody really knows what that test is, but we do have beautiful weather year round. I'm hoping to have the sliding glass doors be the kind that open up all the way. To really blend indoor/outdoor. We don't even have many bugs, so I regularly have our current sliding doors open without the screens. (As a transplant from the midwest, I LOVE this!) @3onthetree Currently the stairs to basement are outside. There's a deck off the family room sliding glass doors, that has the stairs down. That deck will be gone and replaced with the addition. Honestly we don't really need the extra sitting area in the family room, but the master suite upstairs REALLY needs it. Good idea to look into connecting the deck to the new space. Thanks everyone, I love the feedback!...See MoreJAN MOYER
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