is this your own home or a rental? is there another dining area? what is the size of the kitchen and the size of the doorway into the kitchen?

I own this property. The adjacent room is the living room (5mx3m). The kitchen is 4m x 3m. The blue wall is actually a pull down blind which covers windows leading to outside. Floor plans attached.

Sorry, kitchen is 3.4m x 3m. Adjacent living room is 5m x 5m.

my suggestion includes reducing the size of the doorway into the kitchen to screen the side of the fridge with space along the kitchen wall between the fridge and the sliding doors for tall narrow storage units (eg glass doored Ikea Billy bookcases are ideal size for kitchen storage) and still leave space for a small dining table that doubles as a kitchen island and work surface

Hmmm not a bad idea oklouise. Currently the kitchen into living room has a very open plan feel, so this would impact that. I guess I need to figure out if that is a good thing or bad thing.

my suggestion is to allow for easier traffic patterns in and out of the two doorways and around ant table, adding extra storage and work surface within the narrow space available and to create a screen at the front door...try placing the fridge in the new space to see how it feels

I would get a small island or breakfast table

I would move the fridge onto the same wall as the cook top and sink, Then add an Island bench that you could sit up to on the long side or just on one end. If you could easily manage it I would move the sink into the island to give more bench space.

Or you could even make the Island portable, but make it a good size for extra storage.

The island bench will work really well with your outdoor area especially if you built a BBQ/outdoor kitchen to take some of the load off the indoor kitchen

Your kitchen back wall layout would be similar to this minus the TV unit cheers

I agree with the design suggested by oklouise, but not the table. I have the same sized kitchen with the same access issues. I would move the fridge over where suggested, but make sure you frame it in to hide it, with the thinner storage as suggested. The only thing I would change is the table. Do you need a table for 6? If you can get floor to ceiling storage next to the fridge. Then how about a small island with stools which can double as an island and table? Or put a small table in the living room as there is room, and put in an island of no bigger than 80 cm as you need 100-120cm access around table and don't want to block access. I don't have photos as the work has not been done. For me, I am ditching the table and using an island with stools. I have an outdoor table for see no need. Good luck!

This is a portable Island which is great for small spaces so that you don't have to stick to the 1 to 1.2 space between bench tops, a lot of small kitchens work very well within the space they have available cheers

thanks o it's good to learn how you manage the dimensions and the small island sounds better as there is not enough space for more than a tiny table

Small narrow kitchens don't have to be boring, by having the 800 wide island running between the outside doors and wide opening into the living room would give you a great working space. If the fridge is moved next to the front door and built in it would fit but it also reduces the the open plan area, plus would mean a smaller island bench. Your kitchen looks new ? My drawing did show narrow shelving the width of the nib wall to the outside door, which could be removed and just add a very large piece of art from Bluethumb to give extra width to the kitchen. Extra storage could be built into the living area

Hi Aaron, would you consider building the fridge in on the current wall leaving a space between it and the glass fixed panel for rubbish bin, extra beers, with shallow built in 30cms tall cabinets up towards the door finishing with a nib wall of 40cms. then a narrow island bench parallel to this, making your kitchen galley style, at the moment there's too much distance between the sink and fridge. The built in cabinets next to the fridge could even be at bench height, which is cheaper than full height and would give extra bench space.

I would also re swing the front door to open into the living and not the kitchen? cheers