Kitchen island in a small kitchen-help!
Carolyn
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Kitchen Layout Help: Small Kitchen
Comments (7)Seems to make sense to have a range instead of separate cooktop and ovens. In that third option, could you put the fridge where the 36 base and wall cab are by themselves and turn it so the door(s) open towards the range wall? Looks like you even have enough floor space to have a pull out pantry between the fridge and the wall ( have to have something there for door swing clearance anyway). That way if someone wants something from the fridge, they won't be opening it into where you are working. And if you went with a counter depth french door, the doors shouldn't encroach on the doorway much if at all. Then you could slide the range down to the right, get rid of the 12" base and wall cabs and have a nicer sized one to the right of the stove. If you wanted, you might be able to have a very shallow platter display cabinet on the side of the fridge that faces the DW, too. I guess that would depend on the width of the fridge....See MoreU shape kitchen with small island...how small should I go...?
Comments (10)If you are putting your sink in the peninsula - especially a main/cleanup sink - then I strongly recommend an 18" overhang - but no less than 15". A 12" overhang will not allow someone to sit there when anything is going on at the sink - prepping, cleaning up, etc. If you don't have enough room in the DR, then consider either eliminating the seating (especially b/c it's right next to the DR table) or moving the peninsula into the kitchen 6" or so more than it is now. Even without a sink, you should have at least 15" of clear knee/leg space. To accommodate a 15" overhang, your peninsula should be 41.5" deep (1.5" overhang + 24" deep cabinet + 1" decorative door or finished panel on the back of the cabinets + 15" overhang). For an 18" overhang, it should be 44.5" deep. You want a deep enough overhang to: (1) Minimize splashing - you should have at least 18" from the faucet stem to the edge of the seating overhang (2) Keep dirty dishes out of the faces of those sitting at the counter. This is one of the disadvantages of sinks in islands and peninsulas - especially when the island or peninsula is not deep enough...dirty dishes are "in the face" of anyone sitting at the counter. (3) Allow comfortable seating - where you don't have to straddle the cabinets, sit sideways, or lean far over to reach the counter. If you're trying to "save space", be aware that people take up the same amount of space even if you skimp on overhang - they just have to sit farther away from the counter and lean farther in...unless, of course, they're sitting sideways - which means you need more than 24" of linear space per seat - or if they're straddling the cabinets - which again means more than 24" of linear space per seat. Oh, and speaking from real-life experience - sitting sideways and twisting around to face the counter is very uncomfortable for more than a couple of minutes. Ditto for straddling cabinets. If everyone in your family is very short and has short legs (and will always be very short), then 12" might work for leg space - but it does not fix the splashing issue. I can't imagine doing anything in a 12" space with water right there. I certainly would not want to do homework, crafts, read, eat, etc. unless the sink were empty and I didn't need any real space for what I was doing....See MoreKitchen idea, is island okay in this small kitchen?
Comments (3)Its hard to be exact with no measurements, but it looks like you have about 10 feet between the sink counter edge and the ref. And maybe 8 feet from the front edge of the range run to the outer edge of the peninsula counter. If the ref is staying where its shown, you should have about 4 feet between the island edge and the ref (main walkway, big ref doors). The gods say to leave 42" between the island edge and the sink counter. So, that's a total of 7.5 feet in aisles running the length of the room - leaving you about a 30" wide island. Ideally, you should have a straight shot between the ref and the sink. You're not going to be able to do that with an island -- so keep in mind that stuff from the ref goes to the island then to the sink, possibly back to the island, then to the range. People who want a drink from the ref need to get the glass first, circle round the island to the ref to fill it. If you keep the otr micro, a casual warmed sandwich is a trip to the dishes, round the island to the ref, round the island to the micro, swing by the sink again to wipe off island and deposit stuff in dw. Swing back to get the plate outta the micro and go. In length, its recommended that you leave a gap of 42" between the range and the island (both for using the range's oven and for maintenance). So the island length is about 4.5 feet. If you have seating on the side of the island facing the ref, you need to increase the aisle to about 5 feet - room for the stools and room to open the ref. I don't see any really good way to get 12". Whether having the island leads to island-go-round, where you feel like its too much extra walking, or leads to better kitchen access and easier cooking depends on how you react to it. If that was my kitchen, I think I'd look at moving the ref to the sink side, adding a micro on that side. Move the cooking area to what is now the ref side. Add a peninsula on the new cooking area that reached back towards the sink. That would channel duffers to the cleanup side - literally guiding them over there. With a little more funding, I'd think about moving the pocket door. Or I might add a sink to the cooking side. I would certainly sit a cardboard box or small table in the middle of the existing kitchen and see what I thought after living with it for a week....See MoreNeed help finding a small eat-in dining island/table for my kitchen
Comments (2)We are very happy with the 24 x 30 inch table we ordered from https://butcherblockco.com/john-boos-dining-table-tops. They have a choice of woods and shapes and as small as 24" square or round. We ordered beveled edges on the top and the appropriate size black metal base (they have a chart to help). All is very sturdy and the the top is beautiful . The company was very nice to deal with....See MoreSherry Brighton
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