Help with kitchen layout
Em
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Help with Kitchen Layout- Small Original(?) Kitchen in 1930's Cottage
Comments (7)I like where you're going with this. A couple ideas: you will probably need to move the door anyway to fit the cabinets, fridge, etc. One benefit will be you can open the door on a right-hinged fridge into the doorway. Check out the Liebherr fridges. We have had three in different properties, including two 24-inch ones. Love them. Some people here are fixated on drawers, but they do waste a certain amount of space, particularly in a shallow cabinet. To me, a shallow cabinet, as you are proposing under the windows, works well with shelves, because there is not a lot of stuff behind other stuff. On the window wall, you might consider a wine rack, if you would use that: depth is perfect. On the other wall, I would go with one bank of wider drawers - they will hold more. I would do, from left, a 24" dishwasher, 30" single sink, drawers, 30" range, tray cabinet, 24" fridge. You can get by with a 30" hood. Above, a 24" cabinet, nothing above sink, upper cabinet, hood (with 3" gap on each side), maybe a narrow spice cabinet, then a 24" cabinet over the fridge. You can do a garbage pullout under the sink, or a tip out on the window walk....See MorePlease help with kitchen layout! Starting renovations and need help
Comments (2)Can you take some space from the living room? If the stub wall must be 30", you could put a full-height cabinet on the LR side, and extend a peninsula to the point where the door was. If you need a support post for a beam, it could be incorporated into the seating overhang (plan on left). However, if the stub wall can be eliminated, or if only a support post is necessary on the exterior wall, you could extend the peninsula farther into the LR, and make the remainder of the room a dining area. With seating at the peninsula, the nook could be converted to storage and serving. areas (plan on right). Another option (on right), would be to keep the sink under the window and put the fridge on the stair wall. The fridge would be a trek from the range, but adding a sink to the peninsula would give you a better prep space, and the fridge would be more convenient to the FR and new DR. NKBA guidelines New to Kitchens? Read me first....See MoreHelp with kitchen layout
Comments (8)We definitely need more information to make useful suggestions -- right now, any comments are just guesses. We need a fully-measured layout of the space, preferably to-scale as well as a sketch of the entire floor the Kitchen is on. The Featured Answer of the "New to Kitchens? Read Me First!" details the info we need, including several questions to answer. Sample of a fully-measured layout. Note the dimensions include the widths of each wall/window/door/doorway and the distances between each wall/window/door/doorway. Use free downloadable graph paper from the internet. Then draw up the space using Paint, PowerPoint, or other app and label each dimension. The sketch of the entire floor lets us see how the Kitchen relates to the rest of the home. It doesn't have to be to-scale, but it should accurately show how the rooms relate to each other and should include all interior & exterior doors. In addition, it will help us see how traffic flows in, around, and through the Kitchen. Label the front entry and family entry. The family entry is usually a garage or side entry, but it might not be. It's helpful to know which door you use to bring in groceries....See MoreNeed help with kitchen layout
Comments (5)Points in order of priority to me (a home owner, not a designer): The sink and the cooktop are back to back making for choke points and risks of the person at the cooktop tripping over the open dishwasher. In the printed plan with the (presumed) fridge and freezer at the island, any time someone is raiding the fridge you have a choke point. It looks like you have no exterior walls on your kitchen. Getting good ventilation for your cooktop will be an important consideration, which is a challenge on an island because many homeowners don't want a big hood on their island. Also you have the concern about safety with the cooktop in the island and people seated across from it. I would love to have the cabinetry continue on to the table area, it provides extra storage and could act as a buffet. What about putting the microwave down by your snack station and getting the kitchen raiders out of your workspace?...See MoreEm
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