Kitchen layout dilemma
I'm finding our kitchen layout not ideal. Our biggest area of bench space is on the kitchen 'island', which is quite far away from our fridge and our pantry (the shallow cupboard against the wall against the living room), and I find myself pacing back and forth constantly, transporting items (with 2 kids it feels very constant!!). We are intending getting our kitchen island replaced with a new, permanent fixture but would be keen to take that opportunity to improve the layout. Any ideas? (Excuse mess, please, we are just surviving during this self isolation period!!).
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oklouise
4 years agotry moving the bench into the middle of the room parallel to the sink and stove with as much space all around as possible
..you could have a bench along the window but it would need to be lower than the other benches because the window looks lower than the counter but it could make a breakfast bar looking out the window plus the island in the center of the room (the drawers in the corner next to the sink could be relocated to make the support at the end of the new lowered window counter
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4 years agoThank you both for your advice! Having the island in the middle doesn't work - not enough circulation space to have dishwasher/oven open comfortably. This is another option, but I think it looks a bit strange? (Keep in mind that this will be a proper enclosed island bench when we replace it, and probably a bit bigger/longer. Second picture (with child inspecting bench) shows view from living room which I think looks a bit odd. It also looks weird sitting next to the shallow pantry, too, I think. (Also, our bins are normally under the sink, they're just sitting out because they need to be emptied.)
dreamer
4 years agoIt appears to me your kitchen is a thoroughfare with too many doors. My suggestion, is: move fridge to corner next to window. Building a wall wide enough for a fridge.
Extend a peninsula from fridge across to where your narrow pantry is.
The wall where your narrow pantry is, gets knocked through to form an entrance/door into kitchen. Even though, this could be left as is, if the doorway next to it, is adequate for kitchen living access.
Your fridge space and existing cupboard are combined to form a big storage cupboard for appliances and food storage.
This will eliminate having too many access points, and put the access points on the one side of the kitchen.
Kate
4 years agooklouise
4 years agoa central island needs to be much narrower to work or make the a bigger peninsular with an opening near the window
lmage
4 years agoThanks to all for your advice. What do we think of a longer peninsula? I've moved the existing island to sort of show where it would end when we get a new fixed peninsula (as per oklouise's diagram). We do want to keep the two entryways as it's very much useful to be able to enter the kitchen from the hallway and the dining/lounge areas. Opinions on this proposed layout welcome (obviously with new peninsula). Hard to look past the mess, I know, but try, try, as you might please!!
oklouise
4 years agoKate
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