Am I correct in thinking that the pantry wall is where it is and the island extends farther out into the corridor so as to allow a relatively generous view down the length of the house to your windows across the back? I.e., the view from the front door would be over the island and the dining table to the end of the living room? If so, would you consider having the island crafted with the vertical surfaces of the two ends and the corridor side length running six inches or so above the countertop. [The photo shows this kind of arrangement to provide an eating area, but the whole surround could in fact be just a couple inches deep.] Then you could have all the plumbing -- the majestic Rachiele sink and the dishwasher -- in the island. This would allow you to have more space for small appliances between your fridge and your range, as well as more work area, on the outside wall. One thing I am not clear on is whether you plan to have have upper cabinets in the outside wall run or are going to primarily use the pantry for storage. If you have nine- or ten-foot ceilings, uppers to the top on the outside wall might look nice. If I am totally misreading your intent, never mind. I too live in a long narrow townhouse, but with the kitchen at the back where the dogleg narrows it to 11 feet. I love to see how people deal with the challenges of these spaces. Cheers.

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how many formats have you drawn up without the peninsula? One note as well, there is no patio door....is it true the only passages to other rooms are down from fridge and next to range...[nothing going outside??].As per rosie, once you eliminate peninsula, I would look at range placed between two windows on long wall, a rearrangement of sink and fridge, but you'd gain the several feet on inside wall.... down from fridge.....place a small sink there and a slightly smaller cleanup sink further up on long wall,for example. The reason I might do it without peninsula is the fact of the closed space....especially banquette end,,,,,and I would want a lot of options with banquette table/bench and chairs around it.....the peninsula seating doesn't provide you with anything the banquette can't accomplish with it's variety and number of seating positions....It seems it will be a destination and I would want to maximize that.

Athenab, I still think your kitchen remodel should be a kitchen and dining room remodel. Not that that means the kitchen has to open up to the DRM (only if that's the fix), but that your dining room problem (you do not like being in there) needs fixing and this is the time to do it--just in case that means changing its relationship to the kitchen. This plan? I don't understand what you have gained with it. I'm afraid I don't remember all the details. You have lost the tightness of your old kitchen, that's obvious, but this leaves you still working in the corner, but now always turned into it and without your previously generous work space. The "island" is more of a...buoy and to me essentially worthless. I'd want the old layout any day. Also, this plan shows not only the kitchen table you like but has also added some stools so far away you couldn't participate in conversation if you worked holding an old ear trumpet to your ear (pointed backwards). Someone could eat there without you, though. Was a third place for someone to eat, maybe while chatting with folk at the breakfast table, on your list of needs? The slightly widened doorway to the dining room? Allows more exposure to the kitchen mess, but would it change the way you feel using that room? Is your designer hampered by trying to work within constraints you seemed to set? Maybe this design could kick off some good discussion. Have you given some heavy thought to the dining room? What changes to it would make it a place you enjoyed eating, even if it were only perhaps meals at a specific time of day? You have your breakfast area for, say, daylight meals? Could the dining room be decorated to become a warm and inviting place for dining at night? Or is there anything at all you could do inside and/or out to make it an inviting place to eat breakfast and lunch instead? Just to examine options, have you considered what effect it would have to open your "formal" DRM up to the kitchen? The way many others in your situation are. Just for instance, keeping little knee walls on each side, perhaps with bookcases inset, and then framing the large opening created with nice detailing to match the front rooms? Would you still be dusting a diorama in there or would the new relationship to the kitchen make it a natural place to enjoy dinner? What's on the other side of the stove wall, BTW? Any chance for getting a couple extra feet for the kitchen that way since you want to keep the breakfast area? Could you move the kitchen into the dining room and open it to a nice dining room overlooking the rear garden? Oh, yeah. Center hall colonial. Maybe not. :)