I played with your plan a wee bit, turning the laundry room and baking pantry on their sides and moving your kitchen appliances around quite a bit. =) Both laundry room and baking pantry are wider in this plan, which means that you have better aisles in both spaces. I didn't realize until I working on your plan how narrow your baking pantry was. If you were spec'ing standard depth counters & cabs along one wall and 12" cabs on the other, you're left with less than 29" for the aisle. That's fine if you don't intend to work in their but since it sounds like you want to do baking prep in here, that's not going to work well at all, especially if you want your kids to help you. My plan does mean no window in your laundry room but you could always add clerestory windows between baking pantry and laundry room to let light flow from one to the other, like they did between spaces in this home. Okay, into the kitchen. I removed the wing walls on each side of the dining area so that you're not pinched for space around the table. However, as I wrote above, if you want to keep the walls, you can bump the space out instead. I moved the fridge out of the corner and against the pantry wall. That puts it close to your baking center; shorter walks to get eggs, butter, etc. I moved your clean up sink and 2 DWs to the wall next to the fridge. Here are inspiration pics for sinks against walls, not under windows. Moving the clean-up zone, opened up space to move the range top and hood to an exterior wall. Since you're concerned about noise, you should definitely look into adding an remote blower to your hood. This runs ducting up the exterior wall to your roof where your blower will sit. You'll cut noise quite a bit. I moved the ovens to right next to the baking pantry door so it's an shorter walk with pans of batter. I added a prep sink to your island to give you a good work zone between pantry, fridge and range top. The downside of this plan is that it puts the clean-up sink and dish storage the farthest from the dining area. It also means that anyone wanting to grab last minute items from the fridge to bring to the table will walk through the cook zone. Not ideal but I can't think of another way to address that at the moment. Oh, the other thing I did was recess the full depth fridge into the pantry wall so that it appears to be counter depth. I've no idea what your aisle widths were because you hadn't marked them but you have a large enough space to go for generous 48" aisles.

Our friends had a great KD who took their kitchen from blah to absolutely beautiful and kept their stained cabinets on the perimeter. Their perimeter cabinets also have the cathedral arch and you don't even notice that now. Their L-shaped layout is exactly like yours except that their frig is to the right of their range and they had a kitchen desk where your frig wall is. They kept their hardwood floor. Here's a few things that their KD did. Changed out the double stainless sink for a white short-apron Kohler Whitehaven / Added an ORB touch faucet / Added white subway tile backsplash/ Removed the stained island, enlarged it substantially with painted gray cabinets and added a Sharp MW drawer and trash in the island / Added large dark lantern pendants over the island /Removed laminate countertops and added marble look quartz / They had an electric stove with the MW above and changed it to a stainless gas range with a stainless slant hood /Added stainless frig/ Kitchen desk was converted to a coffee and beverage bar / Removed panels in the upper cabinets that had been above the desk to lighted glass mullions / Removed desk and added beverage and wine cooler. I see that you also have additional wall space on your sink wall as they did. The KD had a cabinet maker match the stain and added an extra base cabinet there. Their trash had resided there previously. My neighbor also had a similar situation with 30" wall cabinets. Her KD added stacked cabinets above to the ceiling. Huge beautiful change.

wow- Sophie. Thank you for that information. I will try to avoid using the term 'farmhouse' if it offends folks but I think you could make a similar argument for almost every post on houzz so it seems to me a bit irrelevant for this type of public forum. I have designers- several of them- with great reputations in their respective fields. Unfortunately, since everyone is so busy, if you want attention to details, I have found it is essential to review all drawings myself (civil, structural, architect, and even the geotech and survey) and look for issues. I have found an overabundance of them- some very serious- that I have personally corrected probably saving about $65,000 at this point with no change in the house design. For this particular design issue (ceiling height), I was not presented with the option of exploring different ceiling heights or given a preference for whether or not I like large crown molding etc. The 10' ceiling was plunked down by an architect on the drawings and now it is near impossible to change as we have our permits and in our city- changes are not only expensive but would mean a return to the planning department and public review. My research and questions and legwork are definitely making my project much better than leaving everything up to designers - nobody cares about 'your' project as much as you do.

The wood cabinets look pretty substantial in the photos --- I am guessing either custom made locally or from a pretty high end cabinetry shop, based on the depth of the raised panels. Lucky for you! I love wood cabinets that have a little bit of a rustic look, and think that works really well with a blue and white kitchen color scheme. There is a certain shade of blue I call cobalt that has been a traditional kitchen color forever, and it's easy to find all kinds of accessories in that color family. See also this story about thrift shop finds.... [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/thrift-store-find-blue-and-white-dishes-my-first-dsvw-vd~2266363[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/thrift-store-find-blue-and-white-dishes-my-first-dsvw-vd~2266363) While you are living with this kitchen until you own it and can make changes with less risk, remember that you can hang things on the walls in colors you like to cover up some of the big expanses of green -- the blue and white plates are just an example. Could be posters that make you happy! If I lived there and realized that the border is the thing that bothered me THE MOST, in the short term I would probably just cover it up! I'd paint some big sheets of construction paper with the color that's on the walls (you can use the cheap kids' tempera paints for this, just mix til you get close to the shade) and then cut the sheets to the right size so I could tape them over the offending border. What a relief! Then you can live without that "distraction" while you work on plans for your ultimate changes once you own, since as others have said, removing layers of wall paper is a major pain. I honestly think that with enough blue and white you might be OK with the green, if you lie blue that is. And agree that better lighting can really brighten things up in an old kitchen. FINALLY the subject of green in a kitchen reminded me that the cabinets in Julia Child's kitchen (now in the Smithsonian!) were green. Her husband made them for her -- they are a lighter shade than your walls. But I did find this intriguing photo of a kitchen she used in Southern France, with dark wood cabinetry and yet another strategy for covering kitchen walls -- pegboard to keep tools handy!