Mtdoug, I'm happy that you like plan C and hope that your wife likes it as well. Agree that Robotropolis did a fantastic job. Here are some additional thoughts for tweeking "C" plan: 1. Since your dining room is large, you have the option of putting your snack area in there with a "wet bar" sink, an undercounter fridge, and a mini microwave. Shelves on brackets could go above. Other snacks, paper plates, etc. could be placed in decorative baskets on the shelves yet keep the mess out of view. This would allow the placement of a chair in the kitchen with it's back against that 41" wall space. Replace that larger sink with a small work table for sit down prep. With your good view there, you could even have the chair on castors to directly face the window and then move back to the corner when not in use. Where the small sink is in plan C, enlarge it and place a dishwasher to the left of the sink. Recycle can be placed on the wall next to the small prep table. A floor to ceiling pantry could be to the left of the recycle, in the left corner on the wall. 2. I would think another option is to place more storage or the pantry in the dining room rather than the entry. To give it more of a dining room look, pull out drawers could be in the lower portion and doors with textured glass that obscures (or gathered curtains inside the door) for shallow 12" uppers. That arrangement would make it flexible for resale with options for new owners. 3. To the right of the stove (cooktop?), you can either have an Easy Reach corner wall cabinet or a 27" diagonal corner wall cabinet. Most people on GW prefer the Easy Reach because it's better if two cooks are in the kitchen with more access to the counter. The advantage of the diagonal is that it stores a great deal more if after market D-shaped Super Susans (on ball bearings) are added to allow easy access to the far reaches of the back cabinet. The add ons are very reasonably priced. I'm a one person kitchen and desperately needed that storage so love my diagonal cabinet. See what your wife prefers, consider your top priority, and perhaps look at both types of cabinets in the showroom. Edited to add that I have a 36" diagonal base cabinet with two Super Susans below the 27" diagonal wall cabinet. This combination provides additional counter and prevents the upper from being "in your face." This combination works in a one cook small kitchen when storage needs to be maximized. Also, I don't like the added care that's needed with bifold doors on cabinets that get frequent use. In my other corner is a 33" Easy Reach base cabinet with bifold doors that is used for trash. Unfortunately, there was no room for a trash pullout in my kitchen, and I did not want trash under the sink. This obviously works only with one or two, and only kitchen trash goes here. There are no Super Susans in this cabinet, just shelves. Garbage that could have an odor goes in the freezer for trash day. I have a small plastic trash container on both the upper and lower shelf. Baking pans and large cooker are also stored vertically in that cabinet. The bottom line is that you and your wife need to plan what's going into each cabinet to determine which types of cabinets best meet your needs. 4. The 6" base vertical "spice drawers" work well in a small kitchen if you have a 6" space available and are short on drawers. These are 6" x 6" x 22"d that are available unfinished outside of Ikea. These hold all my "junk drawer" items such as large cooking spatulas, pizza cutter, ice cream scoop, long parchment paper box, rolling pin, etc. It's been interesting to read about your progress and issues that need to be addressed. I hope you will allow GW to follow your progress as you bring your long awaiting plans to completion. It's obvious that a great deal of thought has gone into your planning. This post was edited by Texasgal47 on Sun, May 4, 14 at 11:20

1) I'm working with the layout you have because I thought there was a reason for you to have the desks facing each other. 2) I didn't find the size you show for the Re-jute area rug on the Ruggable website. 3) I really don't think it's a good idea to overlap the rugs as you show, it's a trip hazard plus it wouldn't look good. All of the above taken into consideration, I searched for rugs to fit your room and this is what I came up with. The only thing I'm not sure of is your exact mesurement for the back area where the desks are, you show 6'6 top to bottom (fireplace wall) and the rug I found is 6'7". Although I understand you want to protect your floors, it's nice to see some flooring between the 2 area rugs.

Pretty mockup Sena! I finally got a change to revisit this thread. I kept on thinking about how to get the freezer column out of the laundry and actually within the kitchen space. Especially, since it looks like you might be planning for an all fridge column to pair with it? If you were doing a normal 36” french door fridge, and the column was just for additional freezer space, that would not bother me. But, I would not like to walk that far to my only freezer. One example, if I need to grab frozen fruit to make my daily smoothie. I feel like you should be able to find space for it somewhere because the kitchen and pantry combined should be enough space. I learned here from Buehl, a freezer or fridge in the pantry is not a great idea because of the heat it produces, but I wonder if it might be okay as long as you kept the pocket door or narrow double swing doors open most of the time? I would want to leave the door open anyways since it has the nice window view straight across from the door. Here is one idea I had. The pantry layout could go several ways, depends on whether you are ok having a counter across the low window. i would want to keep the long run of counter myself. You could even add a small prep sink if you wanted. So…. if you cannot tell, I am in love with your backyard view! I keep wanting to make that whole wall endless windows! 🥰 I also thought the laundry and powder room needed to shrink so the dining table had some breathing room around it. I made the table a 36” wide by 6’ long. It could have a leaf that you could remove so it is a smaller table for 4 most times. The one table that you drew just looked so narrow to me, but I wasn’t quite sure what you had in mind. I moved your bigger window over more to the right, added a window to where the existing door to the deck was, and then matched that window size on the other side. I wasn’t positive if a couple saddle style stools would fit, but I also really wanted some seats at the peninsula! For the low window in the pantry, if you don’t want to raise the window up above the counter, this was sort of what I had in mind. I don’t think it would look bad from the outside at all. Of course, you would have it in your own style. Here was an idea if you wanted to add a small prep sink in front of the window. Below is a kitchen and pantry remodel from the blog Chris loves Julia where they put the freezer column in the pantry and fridge column in the kitchen proper. I was imagining your peninsula on the left side of the doorway and then instead seeing the freezer and shelves, you would see the low window with countertop going across. Freezer more to the left. But if you prefer to leave the window with nothing blocking it, that would look very pretty too. Maybe like this? Sorry, I am definitely not sure the best way to lay it out with the window free and clear. Anyways, just thought I would throw this one out for kicks!

I think the challenge here is that the focus seems more on how this kitchen looks and not on how it performs - particularly how it performs for your targeted potential buyer- a family with children. I have two elementary age children and they've learned a lot about safety in the kitchen. That said, I would probably not buy a house that has been remodeled/upgraded with a brand new kitchen that has a cooktop/stove on the peninsula that is also intended to have seating. It would not matter to me what the kitchen looked like aesthetically if the layout of this brand new kitchen wasn't optimal. You could put in cabinets in my favorite shade of blue and use fabulous wallpaper and make it my cheerful vintage inspired dream kitchen Iooks-wise, but I would still pass due to the layout. As someone in your target demographic, I'd highly suggest reconsidering moving the ovens/micro built ins over to fridge area and putting the cooktop in their place- leaving the peninsula wide open. (Also move dw to other side of sink.) That still allows you to use all the appliances you've already purchased. The only thing you may have to do is minor additional electrical work. Then, focus on how the kitchen looks. Is it very open to the rest of the floor/house? If its fairly contained you could have more fun with color. (Colored cabinets or color/pattern on backsplash.) If its fairly open you could keep it a little more neutral.