Help with my kitchen plans
Brooke Hanson
3 years ago
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Comments (10)Hope others will chime in with more ideas... - My concern about your layouts is that you have a lot of small/narrow cabinets. - what corner base cabinet is that in the plan? With such small real estate, I don't know whether I would recommend dead-cornering it to get a full 3-drawer cabinet, instead of a lazy susan or blind corner which are not as readily useful. - where will you put the MW if you get a full range? - can you move the window closer ?South, to give more space near the range? Feels a little tight in that corner. - with limited space, I suggest putting the trash under the 36" sink base cabinet. My kitchen is pretty wide, and I still love my decision to put my trash under the sink. Good luck, Amanda...See MoreHelp with my kitchen floor plan please
Comments (10)Your suggestions are all so appreciated. Most of your ideas have been thought about, but I can't seem to make decisions. I think I like my washer dryer where they are now. They work there fine, and making them stacked will give me more space for a back door area. I have seriously thought of taking out that north wall altogether and opening it all up. The refrigerator would then be placed to the left of the sink. However, I wonder about the back door area then. Where will all that "stuff" go that comes in the back door - backpacks, diaper bags, boots, etc. Lavender - I also like the idea of a counter along the east wall down to the powder room area. Putting the advantium along that wall on the other side of the window would work. herbflavor -We have considered a banquette as well, but I think we are ruling it out because of the price. Sjerin - At the moment we have the table and chairs outside the work area, but with an open kitchen with an L shaped counter, the chairs might be in our way. Something to think about. I don't plan on having an island, though, for sitting necessarily - more for a handy work space. One or two stools would be nice though for visiting purposes. rosie - Sounds lovely. Yes our house is mostly traditional, but not country. I like the idea of a hutch on the south wall covering up the heating ductwork. I also like the idea of having a wall free of cupboards for painting/artwork etc. Again, thank you all for taking time to give me some suggestions. Hopefully I can get these ideas consolidated before too long....See MorePlease help with my new kitchen plan! Building soon.
Comments (31)We're a family of four (and often 5, 6, 7, or more, depending on how many friends & family are visiting!) My children are just-turned 15 and 16. Our evenings go like this: Someone is emptying the DW and clearing out breakfast and after-school snack dishes (and lunch dishes if there's no school that day). Two or three others are prepping and/or cooking. Yet another person is setting the table (going from dish storage to DR). Meanwhile we have a dog underfoot (just waiting for someone to drop something!) We do not have an island as our kitchen isn't wide enough for one (started out 11'1" deep, now 10'6" deep or so b/c we had to "build-in" a wall to accommodate venting in a wall that didn't have enough room b/w the studs to fit the ductwork and to hide most of the waste pipe from an upstairs bathroom). Instead, we have a wide "U" with two short peninsula legs and a row across from the "U" with a corner pantry off to the side. Not only does it work wonderfully well for us, but it also worked great when I had sixteen 12- and 13-years old girls working on their Girl Scout Cooking badge in my kitchen (twice)! We no longer have seating in the kitchen-proper, but we do have 2 stools at one peninsula. We opened up the wall b/w the DR and kitchen and now use our DR for all our meals. Not only is the DR now being used year-round (instead of just at Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas), but it also has given us a bit of "formality" to our meals and my children's manners improved quite a bit! (Plus there's more room around the table and it's nice to eat away from the dinner meal prep mess.) The combination of taking down the wall and converting the entire kitchen to a "kitchen" has made the DR/Kitchen area look & feel much more spacious and both are much, much more functional! I'm not saying eliminate the island, what I'm saying is think about alternatives. As to the cooktop in the plan I did for you, it's on a wall segment approx 12" wider than the hood on each side with the rest of the area open to the Great Room. I show the counter going into the Great Room to the depth of the wall (it could be deeper if you wanted seating there). Is it difficult to vent from there? It depends on the direction your studs run. As to the comments about the "raised counter" in your plan, I agree wholeheartedly with them. Plus, a raised counter reduces the functionality of the peninsula area a bit b/c of the counter overhang into the kitchen (usually 1.5" to 2") and over the workspace that's counter-height. Having the peninsula all one height would give you another deep workspace for large projects such as baking, homework, science fair, gift wrapping, etc. with the added advantage of being able to sit at that counter while working (your current plan does not appear to have seating at the island). [Your most recent pic is much too small to see and I cannot access the pic to see if I can see an enlarged version. I recommend putting your pictures on a true photohosting site such as Photobucket, Picasa, Webshots, Flickr, etc. and putting them in a public folder so you can upload a bigger version and others can navigate to it w/o putting a huge picture inline here.]...See MorePlease help with my kitchen, which plan do you think?
Comments (7)The dining room table seems nice in either location to me, but I think the pool table makes a lot more sense in the top left corner of the planned layout, in that space that is totally open to the living room. Pool, to me, is a fun hangout group activity. Where though not everyone may be playing, you still want to be able to talk to everybody who isn't playing and watch whatever is on TV with them between shots. Or yell at them to get up and come play or whatever. Usually if you are eating at the formal dining table, everyone present in the house is sitting down together, so that table doesn't really need to be very open to another room where nobody is anymore. That said, your current plan and planned plan are so extremely different (the foyer and stairs disappeared, the outline of the whole house has changed, walls have moved, fireplace is entirely different, etc. that I can't really tell what has happened or suggest modifications to those changes. It looks like it's just a totally new house...See MoreBrooke Hanson
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