Do you need a dining area? My initial thoughts and I’m not a plan expert is to steal half the study fir a walk in pantry, use the other half for the laundry and use the laundry nook as a study nook.

whatever you do you want to avoid having a toilet opening onto open living/dining/kitchen area as that's just unpleasant for all parties.

C P I am with you. We are working on that also.

bigreader - good suggestion. I might play around with the idea 🙂

You don’t seem to gain much by removing the wall opp the toilet and laundry as you still need a walkway. It will be costly if it is a structural wall? I’d look at opening up into the sturdy for pantry.

Table at bench height so you can you use it for cooking as well.

As usual OK Louise has a great solution! Love it.

siriuskey/differentways

Working with keeping the powder room insitu and adding a hand basin backing into the laundry for easy access to plumbing

A bigger 900 cooktop, long glass splash back if allowed? with overhead cabinets- Fridge- Wall oven and MW

2000 x 800 Island my allowance per stool has always been 600 per

Moving the door from the living into laundry stairs powder room across will give room for better furniture arrangement you could even add a barn door to the new doorway.

Hi there, What about this: take out the island bench, put in another run of benching against the other k wall and have a narrower bench down the centre. You cannot have a loo opening off the kitchen: regulations do not allow that. The rearranging of the walls will be tricky and much more expensive. My suggestion gives you the fr, c/t and pantry retained, the sink can still be on the centre or move it to the other wall. and a stretch of benching and store that a real cook will love. No huge mucking about to get there either. Simplest option and pantry can be extended one way or other if you want to. Cheers Margot

Hi Kimberly

As a kitchen designer one of the important things we factor into a kitchen design is getting it to connect socially to the other living spaces. Unfortunately, by tucking your kitchen back into this Study area, you will be creating a blind spot and disconnecting the kitchen and the users of the kitchen from the Living area.

There is a way to make good use of this study space though; where this is by way of incorporating a Butler's pantry into the design and tucking it in behind the kitchen. You could achieve a lot more storage this way, you could also put dishwasher and large clean-up sink in the Butler's pantry. Doing this would allow you to remove the large sink from your island, giving you more prep and plating space as well as making the island a more sociable space with less clutter; and perhaps just have a small bowl and tap at one end for general use.

Removing the hall wall is also a good idea to increase the usable living space. Making these changes would also enable you to add 600mm to 700mm more to the length of your kitchen bench where your cook-top is, as well adding more length to the Island bench.

Hope this is helpful. Malcolm