Why not the same height all the way across ?

It’s a two story great room, but the bedrooms will be above the kitchen/ nook, so they can’t be vaulted.

Why an angle at all? There has to be different ways for the transition but from just that picture no one will really be able to offer much in the way of suggestions or help in general.

Is this a picture of your house?

It’s a picture that is similar to illustrate the challenge we are having

The decorative beams are not helping the cause, without those where would be way less attention to the ceiling.

What is that weird angle/crown over the door? I would eliminate that too.

lastly do not hang a ceiling fan that low or at all if you dont really need it.

I get that but in order to get help you need to give us the drawings. Floor plans and elevations. We cannot tell anything from the picture about the exterior or how it is constructed, all just a wild ass-guess at this point.

yes, agreed! Will you have beams? will you have crown? what is the footprint if this is not yours?

What are you able to do? Is your house under construction?

Is it a custom build where you have control?

It is a custom build and we are finalizing the floor plan, so I am looking for other options of how the transition could look. If there is no way to have it look less odd, then we will likely go back to to it being a regular corner with the door off one space or the other. Sorry, I don’t have all of the other design elements since we are still in the planning stages.

Are you happy with the kitchen? I see room for improvement there and in other areas.

No need to angle the door. Choose a wall depending on furniture/traffic etc.

This is probably a semi-custom where a builder allows a few changes but the plan was not developed specifically for you and your building site.

You know this looks bad, luckily you have noticed it in the design phase. Do a regular corner. Having a corner face an island is a non issue, the diagonal door is an awkward design that will drive you batty.

design looks modern, so ditch the crown moulding, and that will eliminate 90% of the problem. white ceiling taht comes straight down to gray wall. agree that othr approaches might make things simpler, but this is the easiest fix if you want the floorplan not to change.

Drop the ceiling over the kitchen would be first over the list. Unless you want. 92K cabinet quote, with everything else falling in line with that. A work room like a kitchen is useless with super tall ceilings. 108” is more than sufficient.

The ceiling isn’t the same nkt issue here. Your designer doesn’t cook, and seems to have a terror of natural light. And that’s just the 2 most egregious issues. There are more. Like the incredibly amateurish bungling of the ceiling.

@live_wire_oak the ceilings in the kitchen will be 9 ft per her original post on the matter.

That being said, you dont need an angled door, and that kitchen is not for cooking in, that is ok if you dont plan to cook much or are not worried about resale.

I also assume you are not going to have a dining room table? or a nook table?

Actually, we do cook/eat at home, a lot. The breakfast nook was originally not as deep which delineated the hearth much more, but as a family of 6 who regularly has extended family over, we wanted to be able to expand the eating area as needed without it feeling cramped. We have a formal dining room in our current home that has been used a handful of times in the 10+ years we have been here, so we felt the cost was not worth it. I had always envisioned a straight island in the kitchen, but agreed the angled allowed for more elbow room. It does make the area next to the sink seem tight. Might I ask what advice you would give to make the kitchen area more user friendly?

And yes, semi-custom would be a more appropriate term, aside from the kitchen every room has been moved around to meet our requests.

Might I ask what advice you would give to make the kitchen area more user friendly?

Suggest asking in kitchens. Start a new thread and attach your plan.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/kitchbath

Am I reading that the dining area will be in the hearth room? or you plan to sit a family of 6 plus guests at the island?

Dump any angled walls or rooms. i installed wood floors throughout my house. They run from a MBR, to living room, down the hall and into the great room. Well, some of the house is angled and the wood on the floor appears to change direction as it moves through the house. All the wood planks are parallel, but the angled walls make them appear as if the house shifted. Apparently this was very popular in the 1970's. I had the carpenter come back and square off one of the walls to help with the vertigo.

Yes-no angled walls (master bath too) and no angled island. That should help you relocate the angled door. So people will walk out of the mud room into the kitchen between the sink/stove/fridge and pantry? There’s a lot going on in that part of the house and doesn’t seem well thought out to me. It also puts the kitchen without any natural light. I don’t see any windows indicated...No window in the office? Only French doors in the master bedroom, no windows in master bath?—I mean “owner’s suite.” Hmmm if this isn’t a done deal, please talk to an architect.

A 5 bedroom home needs a dining table. Not a formal dining room...but space for a dining table.

Straighten the door corner out and put a huge door in the hearth room.

Imagine having a party and the non-privacy of your powder room.

Imagine cooking diner, a kid getting something from the fridge, and your spouse coming home through the mudroom.

Skip the crown molding.