If YOU WANT CONCRETE AND USEFUL HELP? Draw the kitchen with every wall and window and dimensions in inches for every single thing. Provide a budget.

As of the moment? Your absolute last issue is a detail behind a cook, or even the "white of cabinetry. Post the drawing. Use inches. don't leave out the stair obstacle, doorways and where they lead........and pot fillers are just a waste of money, midst your very obvious other issues in a dated and rather poorly laid out kitchen.

Do you have a dining room?
I think the more cabinets you can put the bigger it’ll feel and the nicer it’ll look. Love the idea of light cabs. I’m thinking maybe if you want an eat in kitchen to have a peninsula with some stools instead of a table. And use the dining room for everything else. Fridge should probably go on the far wall to the left. I’m also thinking you should push the beam up into the ceiling so you don’t have a break in the cabinets. For flooring I’d probably match the rest of the hardwood

I just bumped a thread called "New to Kitchens, Read me first" - do that, then come back and edit your post with the requested information and I'm sure you will get LOTS of help! What a great opportunity for you. Congrats on the new home.

And make that 2D layout with measurements the entire floorplan for that level. You may have more long-term options. Do the foundational research work first if you want function in your dream kitchen. 36" range is unnecessary. Same with a overlarge sink. Well positioned work zone counterspace is a higher priority.

As far as budget I'm hoping not to exceed $20k.
The kitchen is next to living room and then is dining room.
Ok thanks I'll check out the thread

So to start we need the to scale floor plan and a lot more info and I hate to tell you this but those tiles will eat a big part of that very small budget and any fancy design behind a stove belongs in a huge Tuscan kitchen . Forget the bling and plan on a new layout with new cabinets and a bigger budget.. I also agree to live there for a bit before tackling anything beyond a plan that can change. Do you need the eat in space ? You do not need or should have a huge range in a tiny space. Yes you need help and we can help but you need to be aware that can only happen if you are willing to do the drawing

Everything that was said above, and keep in mind that $20,000 may sound like a lot of money, unless you live in a very low cost-of-living area AND can do a lot of the work yourself, that is not going to go very far. You will need to plan very carefully and select simple finishes that are cost-effective. One of your advantages is that the kitchen doesn't look very large, so staying within the footprint will be cheaper than knocking down walls and enlarging it. Smaller kitchens can be very efficient and charming.

Just for fun find out if the wall between your living room entrance and the stairs to the basement is loadbearing.

After you move in, you can find out if the overhead beam is load bearing or decorative. A short consultation with a structural engineer would be worth it.

Do you need eating space in the kitchen, and if so, for how many?

Following......

I wouldn't mess with corner cabinets given the dimensions. Keeping the windows will brighten the space. Also, I would continue the wood floors or find a fun tile. I wouldn't install wood looking tiles next to wood floors.

Or consider putting the major appliances on the long wall and a pantry or seating on the opposite wall.

what program are you guys using to make your plans?

I will repost soon. As of right now kitchen has been gutted!

UPDATE ok so that beam is not structural, so it's now gone. Side window, I was advised to just remove because it's too close to back wall to put cabinets or refrigerator. The back window can be moved along that wall to center on sink.

A 2D view would be more useful. How many people do you want to seat in the room? Will you be able to open the refrigerator all the way? Many people on this site have had problems with this when the refrigerator is against a wall.

Your kitchen is wide enough to have full depth counters on both sides, which might be a better plan. Or the refrigerator opposite the sink. When you're taking things out of the refrigerator I don't see a lot of landing space. I think er612's plan above is a good one.

I would replace the angled corner cabinet with an “easy reach” corner cabinet.

do you really need a desk or the table ? If you could move your fridge across the aisle I think that would be nicer. Get some room around the range. This would require a counter depth fridge probably.

i had a kitchen where the range was right up against the fridge and it was no fun. i think making the sink window very large could also help a lot. Just my opinions!

A fully-measured layout is needed. See the Featured Answer on the "New to Kitchens? Read Me First!" thread for more information.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5972404/new-to-kitchens-read-me-first-2020-interim

In addition, please read and answer the questions about you and your family and your plans for using the kitchen.

That 27x27 corner cabinet is terrible. Do the easy reach as suggested above, or a blind cabinet if your brand doesn’t have an easy reach. Or regular wall cabinets that die into the wall. Really anything but that angled cabinet. They are fine IMO if connected to wall cabinets on both sides (I have one like that), but the random angled corner like your drawing shows is so awkward.
And you need a refrigerator cabinet with a filler against the wall.

Drop the L and go to a galley. You need your sink or your stove over on the opposite wall in order to have any usable counter space.

Sink under window and a good length of counter space between sink and stove. Refrigerator on the opposite wall. This will give you a good work triangle.

I just fin it too cramped with the appliances on the other side.

Considering cabinets are 24" and the length of the room at 95". Then add the refrigerator on the other side with cabinetry for some sort of pantry. That would leave me with anywhere between 36" to 41" in the center. Is that too narrow?

Also as a side note family consists of parents and small child of less than a year old. Both me and fiance will cook but I do majority. Sometimes we will be in there at the same time with the baby under foot.

I’d put the fridge on the other wall as partim suggested. Get a counter depth if you’re buying new. Microwave on fridge wall. No “L” by the sink. DW to left of sink. It’ll be so much more functional.

There would be some advantage to hanging fridge in either corner (with filler beside) to eliminate the punch of it opening into cabinetry straight across. But if you want the sink in front of the window, only the opposite end works well for the fridge. Then if you want any reasonable counter space, the range needs to go on the opposite wall. If you do that, venting your range becomes more complicated. A 41 inch clearance is less than ideal, but it’s completely workable. There’s nothing you can do to make this kitchen huge and expansive, so take it as it
comes and make it workable. I’d deal with a small pinch point for sure before I dealt with the lack of goof counter or prep space counter space. When you drop the L you can put the dishwasher to the left of the sink and then the counter space to the right of the sink will become more useful.

Here's the newest incarnation. Counter-depth fridge gives me 41" clearance which looks pretty good actually!

I would lose any type of seating but guess I'll just have to deal with that.

That’s a much better kitchen. Do you have space to put the dishwasher to the left of the sink? I’m this configuration you will have trouble accessing the fridge while the dishwasher is open. I’d try to get the dishwasher more out of the way.

Your kitchen is small and you will need to make compromises. In your plan you are prioritizing a spacious aisle in front of the sink and stove by replacing a second full-depth counted and having a shallow pantry.

I would not make that compromise. With 2 full-depth counters the 36" aisle, although not spacious, is within the guidelines outlined in the kitchen link. But your counter space is woefully inadequate.

I suggest you have a good red through the link. It has some great info on minimum suggested widths and distances. You won't be able to have them all but you will be able to have many of them. You will be making your decisions with your eyes wide open about the compromised you are making. That's a lot better than realizing later what you have done unknowingly.

Here is one suggestion, based on er612's plan above:

I think you must have 2 doors that overlap, one to the outside and one to the basement? And no opening to the living room in that area? Maybe there is an opportunity in that area to open the kitchen to the living room and put a 2-seater table in the living room. Or make that corner of the counter an overhang with a stool underneath, for one person to have a snack in the kitchen while no-one is going in and out. If you give us better measurements we can see if that could work for you.

My son and DIL have a galley kitchen about your size, and they have put a well-organized open-shelf pantry right near the foot of the stairs in the basement. Not as convenient as having storage in the kitchen, but a great place for bulk food purchases and overflow of lesser-used serving dishes and appliances.

I agree with the dishwasher to the left of the sink. You may end up with a sink that is not centered on the window, but I would make that style compromise for the benefit of having the dishwasher opening into a non-traffic space during cleanup.

My preference would be to have the refrigerator at the end of the opposite run of cabinets, not in the middle, to have the benefit of a long counter. I have a tall deep cabinet to the right of my refrigerator, and because I don't have (expensive) deep pull out shelves in it, it isn't really good storage. What I have on the other side of my fridge, deep wide drawers under a regular counter with cabinets above, is so much better and will be less expensive.

Can you show us the corner where the doors are? I think if you could get one counter seat there. We have counter seating for 2, and most often only one person at a time uses it either for sitting down to chop, or for a quick bite. You might find it a good tradeoff for the 15" or so of drawer space lost, compared to having no seating at all in the kitchen. The chair would tuck under the counter when you need to access the doors.

Yeah I think I can switch the dishwasher and the pull out garbage to put the dishwasher to the left of the sink. Thanks I didn't even think of those 2 hitting.

I wish I could open up the wall but behind that is the stairs. I've put 2D pics but it's probably well nested in the comments by now.

@gonzalj21 - I like your newest plan but would make 2 changes. The DW should be to the left of the sink. Can you do that? Also, if you can't move the DW then the 2 banks of drawers you have to the right of the DW I would change and make one set of large drawers. Cheaper and more functional. The top could be for cutlery and tools, and the bottom will be great storage. If you can change the DW, then how much room would you have between the trash and the oven? Could you use one of those wall mounted fold down tables for a little eating space? Post your plan with the dishwasher and trash changed.