Kitchen Island in front of main door
Felix Attard
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Island considerations when seen from front door
Comments (27)Right side of entry with left side in reflection. (Mr. Mustache light has since been replaced.) There is still molding to come around the door. There's also room for a bench on the left wall under the kiddy coats. I just haven't found it yet, so I have a low storage unit there right now. Thanks for weighing in, Texaspenny. I like the idea of one level, too. I love to spread out when I'm working in the kitchen. We rigged bottom up shades for a little extra privacy. ; ) Thanks, Debrak for the vote for the sheers. I really like the film you linked too! I forgot that I used to have sheers on that door. We took them down to paint it, and never put them back up again. The door is really pretty bare. Plus, our little ones loved to wrap themselves in the sheers, so it was tough to keep those curtains looking nice! Therefore, the film might solve a few problems. Still thinking..... Rtwilliams, thank you for your insights and inspiring pictures. You made DH's day when you said it was a cute house. : ) I've attached a picture of the entry. It's a little tough to get a good shot of it since it's so small. I'll have to see if I can hunt down a picture of the eating area. With the reno going on, it's rather trashed at the moment. Sjhockeyfan and Fori, the door definitely stays. We would FREEEEZE without it there. And there is only a storm door for the front entry, so we need something more lockable to the house. I think you're all persuading me, ONE level island. It's what I always wanted. We'll see how long I get to use it....See MoreKitchen Island in front of Stairs?
Comments (8)Your clearances around the table look tight. I also think an island isn't a good fit. Are you dead set on an island or would you consider a peninsula? This is a somewhat rough idea of what I'm proposing. I know you wrote that sink, range and fridge need to stay where they are but I only moved the sink ever so slightly around the corner so hopefully this isn't a budget buster. Circulation around the stairs is much less constricted as it would have been with an island the side you proposed. I also gave you more room around the table (we also inherited a 48" wide table for our DR. Love it, just wish our DR were a wee bit wider so it was easier to move around the table but short of an addition, that isn't possible). Since you only have a wall on one side, you're actually in a better position than I am: slightly narrower aisles won't feel quite so tight in an open area. You could cheat the table closer to the peninsula and give yourself more aisle between table and wall. 36" is the minimum aisle; it's edge past, not walk behind diners wide. What I didn't draw but strongly encourage is to do a "wall of tall" at your fridge end. Add pull-out pantries on either side of the fridge and an appliance garage at the far left end (birds-eye view). Between that, the DR area storage and the cabs along the backside of the peninsula, you may be able to ditch upper cabs on the range wall, which will give you the open concept feel you want....See MoreKitchen island too far from main run?
Comments (20)"The moving of the sink on the right-hand picture, is this to allow more food prep space?" Yes, and to allow you to prep in front of the window. Any way you lay out the kitchen, you're going to have a traffic path through the middle, except for a U, which takes most of the dining area. You need to think about how you enter, how guests enter, and how you want to use the kitchen. Here's another plan with a nice prep space, with the appliances arranged more like cpartist suggested, but it keeps the peninsula across the room, and preserves the dining area. You'd have your back to the long hall and front entry--that's probably really bad Feng Shui, but if you'd prefer the sink under the window, then it's a good plan. What size fridge and sink are you planning to use? If you have 118" available on the top wall, and subtract 24" for the cabinet on the right, 30" for a sink, 30" for the fridge, 24" + 2" for the DW and return panel, plus a couple of inches of filler beside the sink cab, that leaves 6" for the pull-out/filler beside the fridge. If the fridge will be enclosed, subtract another 2-3". I don't know if that would be enough to allow the fridge door to open far enough to remove the crisper for cleaning....See MoreKitchen Sink Visible from front door
Comments (73)I think the kitchen could probably use more, but I don't exactly agree, not based on the lighting courses I have taken. The three cans are in front of the prep island so their beam spread will shine on the countertop of the prep island and part of the sink island unless you use a very narrow beam spread, which there is no reason to. There is usually no reason to have the can immediately over head particularly on perimeter counters where it creates visual hotspots on the fronts of the upper cabinets. (But these cabinets should also have undercabinet lighting). Islands yes, I agree should have lighting overhead, probably centered down the middle, but that's not the only way to light a kitchen adequately. I will generally aim for a perfect grid of cans as a primary pattern to create even lighting throughout the entire room. The surest way to have a shadow is to aim the beam right at the top of the person's head....See MoreNorwood Architects
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