I quite like the layout as you have it, however put drawers in all your lower cabinets.

My only suggestion is do not have 3 different colour of cabinets. stick to 2.

Either do all your lowers in one colour and your uppers in another (blue and white or stained and white) or do your island one colour and the wall cabinetry another colour. I think with 3 colours plus a patterned counter your kitchen will look very busy and the eye won't find a place to rest.

Right about the fridge. You won't be able to open the left-hand door all the way, the handle will hit the wall.

Is this to be an accessible house?

Why all the angles of the closet and island? And sitting at the island like birds on a wire, facing the kitchen wall and not the view?

There was a discussion here within the last few months about a diagonal island, with lots of (imho good) arguments against it, most compelling of which were that it's too far across the aisle in the work area and too pinched at the corners and that it was also an inefficient use of space in the overall room. Based on lots of reading here over the years (as I'm no expert personally), you may hear suggestions along the following lines:

• move the fridge to the dining room end of the counter run, that way people at the table and in the living area can get drinks without entering into any of the kitchen work area.
• if you keep the fridge where it is now, you'll need a filler of some sort next to it or the door handle--and maybe the hinged edge of the door itself--will hit the wall, meaning that it'll be tricky to remove the drawers;
• consider a microwave drawer;
• as AFritzler says above, the lowers should be all drawers, which is vastly more useful than doors, even with pullout shelves;
• is the line across the garage the external vent for the range hood? Consider whether an inline or external blower and a silencer would work better for you in terms of quiet fan operation in an open cabin;
• do you really need a desk? With laptops and iPads and lots of seating, it may be space that could be better used for something else, also eliminating a collection point for junk.

That's all I can come up with, but I'm sure others will chime in with better ideas.

Get rid of the corner fireplace and angled closet... you're making your floor plan very awkward with limited furniture placement options. Eliminate the desk. Straighten out the island, and make it one level. Move the fridge. Stick to two cabinet finishes and one counter, or possibly two counters if you keep everything else very subtle.

Thank you AF, JB, bOS,AW and HH for your well considered (and consistent) input.

Great call on the fridge as well as drawers in the lowers.

Limiting cabinet colors to two makes sense, similar to the rule of thumb on exterior finishes.

The seating at the island was originally a peninsula beginning at the end of the counter to the right of the range and continuing into the living space. We felt this made the dining table area too tight. so this was the alternative, combining the work-island and the peninsula seating. As an aside, we have a very shallow buildable lot space with lake setbacks to one side and a road bisecting the property just in front of the house. We'll definitely consider the wisdom of squaring up the island to the cabinets.

Follow-up question: Other than current trend, why the advice for a single level island? Our thinking with two levels is work surface height and bar stool height are both accommodated.

The desk area is just a dedicated place to locate a workhorse computer and monitor, not envisioned as a large piece of furniture. It does come into play if the angled closet is straightened and could find it's way to the old peninsula location.

Lastly, Hillside House, you're not a fan of a corner fireplace?

Thanks again!

Bar height is actually less comfortable to sit at than counter height, which is less comfortable than table height. If you want two levels for comfort, go counter and table. A one-level island is much more flexible for usage, though... you have more counter space, you can set up buffets or use it for seating, etc.

My house has a corner fireplace, and I really do hate it. We basically have one furniture layout option, and we don’t even have a TV in that room we are working around. I think you will have even less flexibility because of that. We’ve had the hardest time finding a rug that is appropriately sized for the room and furniture that doesn’t overlap the hearth... we will probably end up removing the fireplace at some point. Have you ever had one? The two other people I know with them also hated them, and one has already remodeled to remove it.