Thanks again! Maybe something more like this? It's a different view to give a better idea of space in the room. Everything is to scale. The dark chairs represent a settee. I'm limited in what I can do with the planner tool I'm using. They do use the table for dining. Usually just the two of them, but sometimes one of my brothers stops by. The kitchen table is also used when we visit with our two kids. Hmmmm... I'm starting to think they might need to keep the table in the middle, but make it a round one that can expand. I like the idea of a settee by the window! Maybe something like this. But with a small, round pedestal side table that can be pushed right up to the settee. Two people could sit on either side kind of cafe style.

Currently, we have the garbage under the sink. Our new kitchen will also have the garbage under the sink. We did not ask for fancy pull out with garbage can. We just have a pullout sink base. We will organize the "large" area as we see fit. All the built in garbage pull outs wasted too much space for us. This is how we clean up. One person works at the sink. The other person pulls out the garbage can from the sink cabinet and uses it to catch crumbs from countertops, throw everything into it etc. The garbage can is much more functional when it is mobile with the counter clean up person. We don't put any "wet" or "gross" garbage in there because they all go into the compost. The compost will also go under the sink and will get put on the counter while working. Then put away when done. I actually find that the pull out systems are not as functional as the cans/receptacles on the counter as I need them. (ease of access plus preventing the floor and cabinets getting dirty) The handles on the garbage pullouts and trash pullout bins (trash missing the bin) always look kind of gross when I am at other people's home with these arrangements. You just have to make sure you have a place to put the receptacles you are done with it on the counter. I explored the idea of having a hole cut out for compost/garbage and I could not accept the esthetics of it! Not only that, the pull out system dedicates way too much valuable space to the garbage when they can be better suited for storing bowls and such, IMHO. In our current system, the garbage is the least full. Recycle fills the quickest, then compost, then garbage. We do not have a disposal because almost all wet/yucky stuff goes into the compost.

I'd suggest putting the DW to the right of the sink (as you face it), with the trash on the left, under the prep area. A helper can unload the DW, or gather dishes to set the table, without entering the prep/cooking zones.

I know this is an old thread, but I'm having this same problem. It is as though the cabinet itself smells. If I open the drawer which is on top of the pull out trash cabinet the smell escapes. I wash them every few days and use baking soda. I also don't let trash sit in it for very long; 2 days max. I wonder if it is the type of wood or material the cabinett that surrounds it is made of. My girlfriend has a pull out and hers doesn't smell at all. The inside of her cabinets are made of real wood; not mdf or whatever the other stuff is called, which is what my interior cabinets are made of. We just bought a house that has an ancient trash compactor. It doesn't smell at all! I don't use the compacting feature but put my trash can in it.