thank you for the suggestions & the photo helpful I get down to a ushaped kitchen with a 2.2m island & sink maybe across the U and a servery bifold window - does this close out the room and make it look crowded ceilings are 3.1m OR the island butted close to sliding doors which looks like an island when sliding doors are opened like the photo Also does the window splash back add very much in a small kitchen with no outlook from this window, that is the splashback window spilts the attention focus and doesnte seem to add much to the overall perspective. Is a more traditional title a better option & shift all of the focus to the large sliding door opening & garden.

Looking again at photo. Are the non flush cupboards above your cooktop? If so, then that is probably why they are set back. When you are cooking, if cupboards are flush, there may be a head room issue. If this is where your cook top is, do you have a range hood installed in cabinets? Sorry, but the different set backs would bug me. Maybe install a large stainless steel rangehood, and remove cabinets.

Also if i can avoid moving air con for now that would be great. The next phase of reno will be to take down the wall between lounges and put aircon on the front wall of the lounge as it's the only other outside wall it can go on. Here might be my plan for now. I'll put the kitchen in place and figure out if i need to add more storage to office area. Will add range hood and a few long open shelves like in the image below (and is also the look i'm going for decor wise)

Hi Ben, Are you able to reconsider the heater location at all? A heater in the kitchen just does not make sense and the kitchen is a heating source as well and presumably it is needed to heat the dining and living areas, not the kitchen!!! What about putting it out on the wall facing out from the kitchen, beside the fridge if it were on the left side of the pantry? Even if you need to make that wall a bit longer than 650mm to make it fit and lose a bit of width from the 940mm dimension at the other end of the island. You can easily run pipework or ducting in behind the fridge and pantry if needed. I'd also make the 1050mm dimension between benches a little bigger. It is tight if you want more than one person in the kitchen working together. 1200-1300mm would be ideal. If it was my kitchen, I would also look at making the island a peninsular, linking it to one of the end walls. Which end would depend on the flow from other spaces in the home. I'd not put any joinery on the closed end wall, just the open one with the pantry and fridge etc. C.