Hi Magdalene. What are your plans for the flooring...will you be replacing, and if so, with what? What wall colour have you chosen? Just trying to get an overall idea in order to make comments.cheers.

Also, can you sketch in your proposed NEW kitchen floorplan so we can see where wall 2 and island are in relation to wall 1 and wall cabinetry AND the support column, please?

If you are uncertain about the black granite, you could sell it and go for a white stone or possibly a concrete-like finish? I did notice how reflective it was in that photo....

Only you know if it will bug you or not. It would be great to reuse if you love it.

I’m still unclear about plan. I see where you drew the island, new pantry’s &bathroom, but can you sketch in the remaining joinery, like cabinets with sink, cooktop and where ovens will be? I’m having trouble visualising it.

Thank you, Magdoline, that helps a lot. The thing that seems impractical to me is that the kitchen cooktop is situated right up against a wall and the drawers beneath it, when opened, will potentially block entry to & from butler’s pantry, AND anyone using the cooktop is standing in the way of this same entry. Another concern is there isn’t much bench space between sink and cooktop.

I understand you are wanting to achieve the design of the kitchen you first posted, and keeping appliance connections in same position as your original kitchen is cost-effective. Is it to building code that cooktop can be bang up to a wall, or is there to be a backsplash there? How do you feel about the location of cooktop and underbench drawers right at the entry to butler’s pantry? Do you think it will be an issue?

Is it a gas cooktop?

The small wall between proposed kitchen cooktop and B’s pantry...is it load bearing? If not, had you considered removing it and simply continuing the benchtop into the pantry? Or are you wanting to keep the functions of these two spaces visually seperate?

Thanks for that. Induction much better! Is there a sink and another cooktop inside pantry (looks like it from 3D images.

Magdoline, I think it would very helpful to think carefully about how you use your kitchen, what you didn’t like about your old kitchen, what you did like about it, etc then sit down with a kitchen designer and discuss your situation. A kitchen Reno is such a big investment and you want to make sure it will flow and function well for you and your family. If you are the main chef, you know best what works and what doesn’t work. Have you already had discussions with a designer?

So you will have to have gas plumbed to the pantry to accomodate the gas burner?

Flooring is up to you, but as the kitchen/dining is all open plan, the same flooring throughout would indeed marry the spaces and look beautiful, not to mention timber is so much nicer to stand on than tiles, esp in winter!

What is width of induction cooktop? What is width of sink for kitchen?

I would think you need 500cm on either side of cooktop so you have somewhere to place pots/pans.

I would also suggest you would want a good distance between sink and cooktop, for safety (splash & splatter) and for dish drainer.

Will you proposed configuration allow this?

Taken from your drawing the following plan, cabinets normal 600 deep with 1200 between them and island, gas cook top with ducted extractor in WIP.

Seeing that you are renewing everything I would sell the black benchtop and go with something that you want. cheers

I would swap the electric cook top and sink over so that the sink is between both cook tops

The gas cook top in the WIP, suggests you would have this for Wok Cooking as Many Asian families have to contain cooking smells a gas cook top with a lid would work really well as a splash back in front of the window

This double gas burner from Ilve

https://www.ilve.com.au/cooktop/ilas762x-twin-wok-cooktop/

Magdoline, another option is to have all benchtops white or light coloured, the island and full-wall cabinetry in a dark material, and all your other cabinets white/light coloured (Incl those in B’s pantry). OR all joinery in B‘s pantry in same dark material as island and full-wall cabinetry. A mixture of light & dark joinery can be very striking.

This is from your Ideabooks:

Sorry, it didn’t upload first time.

Look at the 17th photo in your Ideabooks. I’ve tried posting it, but it hasn’t worked.

Is this the photo annb

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Yes, that’s the one, Siri! Thank you! i have a new IPad and for some reason screenshots aren’t uploading today. (Of course, there’s always the chance it’s me!) Appreciate your help.

Likewise, I'am my own worst problem, I just took it from magdolines idea book into mine and posted cheers

Ok, that might be a step I didn’t know to take...thanks again.

Another floor plan, keeping the toilet insitu and having external window to this bathroom/powderoom, island is 1200 x 3.3 to give extra space between island and sliding doors ( I forgot to remove the old 1200 measurements between benches) cheers