Post up a floor plan with all dimensions. If needed grab a piece of graph paper and draw it out to scale. About impossible to offer much on description. Context is key.

If you don't position the range on the south wall your window options aren't affected. Fixed window(s) can be much less expensive. By thousands. And you still need a good lighting plan for night and shadowing.

Is this a 1 story home? I added a skylight in my 10x10 kitchen

@jck910 it is a two story home. The upstairs has huge skylights, but obviously and unfortunately that won't work for downstairs.

@millworkman I have bee sketching it out on graph paper. Will try to upload. But the space is going to be an L shape, with the 15' leg on the south wall, and the 8' leg on the east where bathroom is currently located. There is a small 11'x 8' workshop on the other side of the bathroom that will become the new bathroom.

The 8' east wall of the new kitchen will be on an interior wall with no windows. That's likely where I"ll put the stove, or the stove will go on the Westernmost part of the south facing wall.

Where is the new bathroom entrance? Is it a doorway on that 8' wall? What kind of wall/doorway is on the north side of the space? Make sure to show all of that in your sketch, for the best advice. An 8' wide room is perfect for a galley kitchen. Galley can mean a wall of workspace on each side, or a wall on one side and an island on the other.

Existing 1st floor setup.

Existing kitchen/ bath.

Save the bathroom. Swap the dining room and kitchen instead.

You may want a larger bathroom. No reason then to save it. The idea of swapping the dining and kitchen spaces is still good. You also have the porch area to consider for more space. Use part or all.

I'm no pro, but could you elongate the wall between the kitchen and the dining room (placing the opening to the dining room next to the front door near the living room? That would allow for an entire wall of cabinetry and/or a place to relocate the stove. You could then put in a larger window and have a galley kitchen, or you might be able to have a u-shape with the sink under a larger window. Swapping with the dining space would be ideal (heck, especially if you were able to borrow several feet from the deck space to add on!), but could be expensive and painful given the amount of existing windows (and maybe a slider?) in the dining room (depending on their height/placement - are they above counter height?).

The last thing I'd do is make my already small and only bathroom smaller.

Thank s for the suggestions, but we're not getting rid of the DR. The south wall of the DR is \taken up by a patio door to the deck, and the west and north walls have large windows. The NW corner has a built in china cabinet that I am keeping. So there is no place for appliances.

There is a tiny LR here, so opening up the kitchen will create a much larger space overall. There is a passthrough wall on the south side of the front door that I may take out to further open space between DR and kitchen, but still no place for appliances in the DR.

@dan1888 Not sure what you mean. The bathroom is tiny and going to be demolished to make room for the kitchen extension. The 11 x 8 room currently south of the existing bathroom is going to become the new bathroom.

@mcarroll16 Thank you for the ideas. That last one is pretty much the same as one of mine. The only issue is figuring out window placement with the range. I'd prefer to have the range on the south wall, but it will depend on if/how I can fit the windows I want there. The alternative is swapping locations of the fridge and range.

I wouldn't put the range where the fridge is in that last plan. Having your range right up against the wall like that is not functional or happy. Instead, you could put the fridge in the SW corner, right before the dining room entrance, range centered on the east wall, sink and DW on the island. You get a long wall of windows from the east edge til the last 42" of the west side (36" fridge plus filler so your fridge doors can open fully). This works better if you can open up the dining room wall so your island can be longer.

I just noticed my sketch didn't post.  Trying again.

Ok, looking at your drawing, if you swapped the range and fridge, you would need to get rid of the pantry too. You really need 18" minimum countertop on that side of the range. Your sketch is a decent kitchen. Having the the DW between sink and cooktop does make it a 1-person kitchen--not a kitchen where one person cleans while another one cooks. If you're a one-cook household anyway, that might be an acceptable tradeoff to get the good countertop space between sink and range.

What is that box by the island? A support post for a ceiling beam? If so, try to have it line up with the edge of the island. Your island needs to come out that far anyway--42" minimum between perimeter countertop edge and island countertop edge, but 48" is better.

My vote is for the new bathroom. I'd make the old bathroom space part of a new dining area. And I'd beef up the roof support structure to get rid of the 2-2x4 post you show as a beam in your new layout.

Move the kitchen into the wider dining room. Which is 12 feet wide. Take down the short wall blocking off part of the old dining room from the old kitchen. Now you have wall space for a well designed, very functional kitchen. 12x16 using the back wall and the adjacent end wall at the porch end of the house. With nothing on one wall you've got room for a 35x72 island with no seating. All lowers 36" or wider drawer cabinets. No corner susan. No uppers. Space for windows. I remember now you have a beautiful view. You can have seating without much walk behind. I guess it may be worth it. Maybe take a bit from the porch.