I see many good ideas here - you can pick from one or parts of one merged with another etc. looking at it how I'd want it (taking in your visual also tho) I'd keep the peninsula on the dining side but i'd shorten it a bit so it wasn't so long to walk around (and less walking to put clean dishes away if using the uppers between the stove top and sink) but would still provide a division from the area where your mstr bdroom is. and if standing at the sink /dw you could still see/talk to anyone at the table (future kids still eating breakfast while you start to clean up) or look out the windows over there (i don't remember if you planned windows on that far wall but hoping you are). I'd want the pantry in the lower left corner - wouldn't want to walk around the peninsula everytime I needed something... there should be room enough in there for a good 4' of shelves floor to ceiling. the far back corner could be deeper shelves for big items (turkey pan, big stock pot etc) and a flat wall side to hang your apron, floor duster etc). i'd think about having the door open inward. then on the wall from there to the end (by another doorway) i'd put the fridge. that'd make a nice work triangle/area. fridge, stove, sink (prep sink in corner of island there) and next to the fridge (toward the doorway) the wall oven/mw. If there's space there i'd put the mw separate w/counter top between the fridge and wall oven(s). use of mw w/ frozen foods and away from the regular cook area. fridge also can be used w/o getting into cook area. landing for the oven(s) would be island. baked goods could be put together on the island (water at prep sink) and right there to go into oven. the right wall of counter would be for spreading out food for a dinner / drink area. if you'd want the area by the wall (hallway) could be used as a small broom closet. you'd have nice areas of counter top to work on - by the stove, the island and on the counter w/high top area for people to sit up to for a snack, to talk to you, etc. That area could also hold the mw - but i like it by where i am cooking as I use it to heat up water when needed for a recipe, etc. mw could also be in the corner between the stove and clean up sink on a shelf under the upper cabs. you could probably have the end of the island overhang some so dh could pull up a stool while you cook, making him closer to you than the table or high counter top on the other wall. or for a high chair down the road... I think you'll have lots of storage and counter space to work on. It also gives you space if anyone is bringing food to a dinner for them to reheat in mw/oven and set out on the right counter top w/o getting in the way of the cook. If you want to do more massive food storage (like some do) then you could also use the area by your bdroom door for that storage. If not, that'd be a great super linen closet and vacuum storage area. dh needs to come around to the prep sink idea (tell him I said so... lol!). i'm not usually one for it unless a big kitchen, lots of kids and / or lots of help in kitchen. you meet 1 of those, maybe 2 and maybe all 3 in the future! You are just starting out w/possible growing family = kids in future helping to prep/cook or others coming in to also cook with you on special occasions - it gives access to water w/o crossing the cook's area. with a kitchen the size of yours, it's really needed! better to put it in now than try to redo it in yrs to come. cheaper to do now also. Looking back to the times when the kids were home, it'd make things so much easier! it might be good to put it toward the outer side of the island but still facing the fridge counter. take things out of fridge, turn around and set them on the island counter, prep sink to the right of veggies, peel, chop etc and then just a step or 2 to the left to the stove! it'd also make it easy to use to wash hands for someone coming from outside (work or play) w/o getting into cooking area. i wish I knew how to make a visual of it like others have here - but I don't! and I didn't know the measurements of your walls - just going by what looks to fit in on your first plan. pic of mw on shelf under upper cabs (southfinch) pic of my sister's oven w/ mw over it. If you need 2 regular ovens, hopefully there'd be room to the right of the ovens for a counter space w/mw (if you look closely you can see a tiny corner of the counter top to the right of my sister's ovens), then your fridge and pantry door...I didn't know if you'd need 2 reg ovens, if you were using a cook top or a range (which would have another oven). my sister/bil have a 2nd oven with their range (far left of pic).

Regarding layout - as others have said, what's best will depend on your home's layout, the Kitchen's location with regards to the rest of the house and the outside, and the Kitchen's measurements. I like both a "U" (what I have now and love!) and an "L" with an island, depending on the situation. I will say that ideally I would have: Prep Zone either: Directly across from the range/cooktop with a prep sink (not cleanup sink) and at least 42" of workspace -or- Next to the range/cooktop along the same counter run with 42" to 48" of workspace b/w them Actually, I think I'd like both so more than one person can work in the Kitchen at one time!! Cleanup Zone and dish storage completelyseparate from both the Prep and Cooking Zones. The Prep Zone in the best location (view, visitors, etc.) b/c the vast majority of time in the Kitchen is spent prepping. No zone-crossing - meaning you don't have to cross through other zones when going to/from your work zone and the refrigerator or pantry. For example, I would rather not have to cross through the Cleanup Zone (and dodging an open DW door) to go to/from the refrigerator or pantry and the Prep and Cooking Zones. (Remember, this is what I consider "ideal".) A protected Cooking Zone, and to some extent, Prep Zone. Protected meaning these zones are protected from non-Kitchen traffic as well as from non-cooking and non-prepping Kitchen work. Two-bin trash pullout (trash + recycling) next to the prep sink and near the range/cooktop. If room, a trash pullout (one or two bin) next to the cleanup sink; if no room, then under the cleanup sink. Far more trash and recyclables are generated while prepping and cooking than cleaning up, and for a much longer extended period of time. [BTW...the biggest regret in my Kitchen is that I put the trash pullout in the Cleanup Zone, not the Prep Zone. I didn't realize how much more it's used when prepping and cooking until I started using my new Kitchen! Now, I have to traipse across a 6' aisle to get to the trash pullout from my Prep and Cooking Zones - often dripping all the way!] Refrigerator next to the Prep and Cooking Zones but on the periphery so outsiders can get a snack, get condiments for the dinner table, or put away groceries without getting in the way of someone prepping and/or cooking. MW also on the periphery but next to the Prep and Cooking Zones for similar reasons. For a MW, I would prefer either a drawer (which I have now and love) or in an alcove a bit above counter height with landing space for the MW next to it on the right side (the side that doesn't have a hinge). At least one wall oven that's installed so the door opens above my knees. . [Remember, this is my ideal, not necessarily anyone else's!]

I've been thinking about this dilemma--you need a back door, but the one you have is only a few steps around the corner from the front door (17'?). If newideas' suggestion would work, you could plug a window into the existing back door header, and put a sink there. I think there would be space for the table, but I'm drawing a banquet, which would add extra storage in the benches. You could have a shallow counter behind one of the benches, with shelves above for display, or cabinets for items which aren't used frequently. Bypass doors on the backrest on that wall would open to reveal more storage--similar to what you seen in RVs or campers. An upper cabinet above the DW would complete the shelves and provide storage for dishes. Part of the bench against the window wall could hold long, narrow, drawers (affectionately referred to as morgue drawers in GW archives) for easy access. The small cabinet to the right of the DW would be bench height, and could be a full-depth drawer, or you could use a morgue drawer there, too, with a shallow cabinet behind it. Tall cabinets on each side of the fridge would provide extra storage. If the fridge could be recessed into the wall behind, the tall cabinets could be added to make it look built in. I put the sink slightly off-center in a larger cabinet, to give you a bit more hip space to the left, and centered the faucet on the window, to disguise the off-set.

Good plan for keeping to the budget. A couple comments: 1- The dishwasher may have to go next to the stove (not on the sink wall) because its door has to open all the way- 26 inches or more is typical. Check the opening measurements on the dishwasher you choose and allow a bit extra for how it fits under the counter. Of course before you finalize your cabinet plan, you could try scooting the stove over a few inches to see if you can get a dishwasher to open on the sink wall with enough clearance. 2- To retrain yourselves to go in the front door, use concrete parking stops or plain trash cans to make it impossible to drive all the way up to the kitchen door. It's the kind of structure discipline designed to control crowd movement in amusement parks.