Help with small kitchen layout
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Comments (1)If you haven't already, I suggest posting this on the "Discussions" side of Kitchens. This is the "Gallery" side that's more for finished kitchens and the like. The Discussions side of Kitchens is for on-topic discussions concerning kitchen remodels. You will most likely get many more responses over there. BTW...you're probably not receiving emails of follow-up postings, even though you checked the box requesting them. This is b/c you don't have the email option turned on in your profile. See the "Read Me" thread for more information. Scroll down to the post with the subject "Getting Emails Sent To You...3-step Process". Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: New To Kitchens? Posting Pics? Read Me!...See MoreNeed help with small kitchen layout
Comments (40)Angie_DIY: The path through the kitchen is the shortest path from the dining room to the bedrooms, bathrooms, and laundry, all of which are accessed via the hallway. DH is often working at the dining room table while I'm cooking, but he can get from there to the back of the house via the living room as well. With only two of us here, there is not that much traffic to deal with. I asked about the traffic flow, though, because these aisles seem small. I can make them a little bigger but at the expense of the counter by the fridge, which is one of the things that I like about this plan. I think I will mock the aisles up in the kitchen and see how they feel. iroll: Thanks for the feedback! Our house has several extraneous doors. The floor plan above shows the one between the living room and the hallway. There is also one further down the hall. There's a small addition on the back that looks like it dates from the 1950s. They extended the hallway as part of the addition, but they left the door where the hallway used to end. We haven't taken these doors down because we occasionally find them useful for blocking sound and light traveling through our small house when one person is making noise in the living room or kitchen and the other wants some quiet in the bedroom. We also store stuff (like our grocery bags) in the little space behind the kitchen door. The opening between the dining room and the kitchen used to have a door, too. It must have been taken down decades ago because you can now barely see the mortises for the hinges under many coats of paint. This door swung into the kitchen towards the fridge, which makes you wonder what the original kitchen layout was....See Morehelp with small kitchen layout
Comments (11)Thanks for the bump and help! I was wondering if the original is so awful that no one else wanted to look at it! Unfortunately the door to the sunroom cannot move, stairs to one side and an all ready narrow hallway to the other. We'll tweek the other door to get it to line up as much as possible. Lots of custom work on that side. Is 39" enough for a work space between the sink and range? Is 18" enough room on the other side of the range or could I go down to 12"? The sink and range could swap places, but I thought it would be helpful to have that weird sunroom drawerstack/counter as another place for prepping, any thoughts? That cabinet is now a small closet that we will cut down to counter height to gain light. Last question :), is it silly in such a small space to sacrifice the above range cabinets to have a stand alone hood? Thanks again!...See MoreHelp please with small kitchen layout
Comments (4)You kept the DW out of the prep zone between sink and range. Bravo! If you have room to stand at the sink and load the DW, then I think your DW placement is just fine. I think your layout looks quite functional. And I'm a bit of a DW Nazi, lol. I see you have a side-by-side fridge in your drawing. Do you already have one and are continuing to use it? If not, you might not want to buy one. They don't get a lot of love here due to how narrow the fridge interior is which limits putting in things like a bigger tray of food for entertaining, a big turkey, etc. Just something to think about and do some more research on if you're buying new....See MoreRebekah Gibbs
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