Maybe you have to make a smaller fish tank...the big one looks great, but has taken up much of your cooking operatation spaces.

how about doing like picture bellow?

consider safety issues traffic patterns moving food hot items kids animals real life issues

i think if you post with clear and details wall layout drawing there, you will receive some proffessional designers' reply

The oven looks a little lost. Consider how far will you need to take hot, possibly heavy pans/trays before you can set them down at a practical serving point?

The cooktop seems to be in a traffic area and could pose a potential danger.

And as HU also mentioned, do you really need two sinks?

We recently reno’d our kitchen. All our below bench space is drawers. Overheads are cupboards. I can‘t tell you how much more storage and how much more practical drawers are over cupboards. So much so, we didn’t need a dedicated pantry. Drawers make it easier to categorise, find, and keep things orderly too. What used to take up a whole double cupboard shelf (and have 30+cm wasted space above the hard to reach items), now fits neatly in one 18cm drawer. I panicked about losing a pantry but wouldn’t have one by choice ever again now. Go more drawers!

When I stand in my food prep spot, I can easily spin around for access to utensils, sink, dishwasher, 1 step to the cooktop, spice drawer, oven & MW, and two steps to the fridge. We fluked a large but very functional kitchen. Perhaps work out where ‘your spot’ will be and design around that.

All the very best with your project.

Dm stand thanks a lot for your advice

Brian I think you are right with the position of the cooktop but I'm not sure if it can be moved, need to ask the electrician. Wish me luck

Hi clau. Whilst we were in those very early stages of reno-ing, we got told all sorts of things couldn't be done - even very basic things. We were also told there was only one way to some parts of our multi-room makeover. However, after speaking with alternative tradies, we learned that previous advice had been totally wrong; and there's almost always more than one solution. Some will tell you "it can't be done", but what they really mean is "I don't want to do it". There's a huge difference.

It all depends on the experience and can-do attitude of the tradie. Unfortunately, it's left to us to work out if something really is impossible, or a huge, costly mega drama, or if they've embellished the negatives because they simply can't be bothered going to any effort.

Can I suggest that if someone tells you something can't be done, ask them to explain why. If they can't explain it in a way that us novices can understand, or it sounds vague, illogical or dodgy, it probably is! Then it's definitely time to talk to someone else. If we had taken the initial "nuh, can't do that" as gospel, we wouldn't have a great, practical outcome. It would have been limited by what a lazy tradie wanted to do - or one who didn't respect that their client has to live with the results. We would've been miffed if we had spent all that moolah and found out later on that we didn't have to settle for a less than ideal outcome after all.

Research, research, research, and fire off questions, questions, questions, and I'm sure you'll end up with a brilliant outcome. You'll wonder why you ever got stressed about it! :-)

(PS: I'm not suggesting your sparkie may be a lazy tradie, far from it. I just wanted to share the benefit of what we discovered, that's all).