Everyone seems to be commenting on the kitchen /breakfast room. How about this sketch as an improvement? It flip-flops the kitchen and breakfast room, which seems like a radical idea, but I think it works. Benefits: - You still have space for a window over the sink and could even have another kitchen window on the short side of the "L". - The stove could sit on the short leg of the "L" and could vent directly to the outside. - The wall dividing the kitchen /family room is gone, but the island still provides a visual barrier. The rooms are much more open to one another. - The breakfast room is spacious and could have multiple windows (sunroom-ish), and although I didn't draw it that way, it could still be a banquette. - The pathway that's liable to be a bottleneck is now to the breakfast room instead of the kitchen, and that's likely to be less of a problem than a bottleneck into the kitchen. People go into the breakfast room and sit down -- they don't pass through multiple times like they do in a kitchen. - Your husband can still have the penninsula. It's just relocated to the back wall of the kitchen, overlooking the breakfast room instead of a walkway. - You still have roughly the same amount of base cabinets, though the configuration is different. You will, however, lose some upper cabinets because this kitchen is much more open than the G-shaped kitchen you have in your plan.

I would think carefully about a large U sectional. You might want to find the exact dimensions of one you are considering and mark it out on your floor. I'm guessing it will block the view out your french doors and be too close to them. If you want layout help you should post a floor plan with dimensions, showing all the openings, door, windows, etc. How do you want to use the room? How many people? What are the adjoining rooms and walkways?

Don’t like the tv in front of the window. I’d put the couch in front of the building view window and the tv on the big wall. the one thing that might make me switch the tv to the corner and the couch on the wall would be if one of us stays up late watching tv and the other is in the bed in the adjacent bedroom. Tv sounds wouldntravel through the bedroom wall and disturb the sleeper. M

Can you return it and get a smaller one? (I admit I think your fireplace wall is lovely and I personally wouldn't ruin it with a television. But I am a tiny minority who has lived without television for almost 30 years.) Is there another room in which to put it, or do you prefer to use this room for watching it?