@jmm1837, We love the new GE white Cafe appliances and it actually had us thinking about a range. The range is a real beauty! But my husband does the cooking and he really has his heart set on an easy clean lines of an induction cooktop. No seams or button etc. The frig isn’t really that far from the sink. It looks that way on paper though. The sink is closer to the counter than what’s shown. The edge of it is about 40" from the cooktop counter. There’s about 18” on the left side of cooktop and about 30” on the right. I can’t think of another location for the frig anyway. There’s no room to the left of the sink and the far wall I want kept free of anything in prep for an oversized hutch. We live in the woods. Our back yard is our focal point. The kitchen window is huge to take it all in. That did limit us somewhat, but it’s worth it for the view. We’ll only have wall cabinets on the cooktop side.

Hum. I think you can do better. I'd keep playing around with the layout overall. Are you opposed to combining the utility room with the pantry space? Can you shrink that area and make the primary kitchen bigger? It doesn't seem like you have very much room for pantry storage in there, just a bit of countertop and a sink. I'm sure people will help if you provide dimensions.

I have a cooktop with wall ovens. The wall ovens are technically in the pantry area. So I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. But I did it as a first choice, not because I didn't have anywhere else to stick my oven.

There will be shelves and/or cabinets along the wall opposite the pantry sink and on the wall to the right that is out of view and along the wall opposite the w/d wall. The oversized hutch that will go on the bare wall is mostly storage. It’s actually a large antique pantry cabinet. And another pantry cabinet to the right of the frig which will be mostly drawers. I put a pocket door in on purpose to kind of make the pantry an extension of the kitchen. It will be open most of the time I’m sure. Presently, we have our drop in range in our island. We hate the range itself, but we really like it there, but I didn’t want the stove in the island this time. I wanted to keep the island top clear of obstruction. So the oven in it will be what we’re used to. The oven in the pantry idea came up because a lot of our cook ware can be stored in the pantry and I started to see others doing it. One of my favorite kitchens on Houzz has the oven in the pantry. As far as shrinking the pantry and utility, not really if you are referring to the bare “hutch” wall. It’s a modular and that wall cannot be moved. I could move the wall opposite the pantry sink, but we want a large utility room. Ours is big now and I wouldn’t want it any smaller. We have a lot of pets. Our utility/laundry room is packed with pet supplies and litter pans. We’re hoping to put the litter pans in the basement in the new house however, hoping the old gang will catch on.

Post the rest of the house. This needs context. There’s room for improvement, but it depends on the surroundings.

I agree with jmm. I would put a range in before putting your only oven in the pantry. The pantry, to me, should be all about functional storage, not a functioning appliance.

It looks like you’re only talking about an under counter oven and not a wall oven at eye level. If that’s the case, what about an induction cooktop with a single wall oven underneath? Seems that that would get your husband the clean lines he is seeking.

Can you put the oven on the short end of the island? If your husband often has the oven on while he is cooking it will be more convenient to have it nearby. I prefer the long side of the island across from the cooking surface. If you have the space, I would consider turning the island. Another option would be to recess the refrigerator into the utility room and add a prep sink to the island facing the cooktop. That way you could center the cooktop on the rear wall and have a large amount of counter space on each side, allowing you to place the oven on the same wall as the cooktop.

Example of turning the island so the long side is across from your cooktop and recessing the refrigerator into the utility room, creating a work triangle between the cooktop, under counter oven, island prep sink and refrigerator. Your clean up zone would be separate. If you leave it as it is now, I suggest moving the DW to the left of the sink so that it isn't a barrier between the sink and cooktop.