Is your priority a walk-in pantry or a large island? If the external walls are fixed there will need to be internal trade-offs.

External walls are fixed. I’m leaning towards sticking with the smaller island and keeping the pantry. The other alternative is keep the existing plan and use pocket or ’s’ folding doors on the pantry.

The no WIP looks more generous to me, and you could extend the joinery past the fridge space for a study nook, or cloffice as the recent article called it, or more storage.

What concerns me about the smaller version of the area with the sink and cooking appliances is how much space is left on either side for comfortable convenient working? What do you want the WIP for? I know some people like a butlers pantry for hiding all the mess, but since your sink and presumably dishwasher are in the main part of the kitchen that doesn't appear to be your purpose?

Original. Why waste space with walk-in that just reduces convenience amd squashes everything up

I think the first plan works best. There is plenty of pantry storage. Consider whether a butlers pantry is really what you need. If you have small children it can be tricky to keep an eye on them if you have to access the butlers pantry each time you make a meal. It also makes your kitchen much smaller visually as the bp is ‘hidden’ space. We had the same decision to make and not only got rid of the bp but a talk pantry altogether! The kitchen looks amazing & with pull down & pull out shelving in cupboards our ‘pantry’ works much better than the original. Best of luck with your decision.

Thank you all for your unanimous responses to keep the original plan.

appreciate it very much.

One last question for you all if I may?

Should I place the dishwasher and sink on the island or on the back wall where the cooktop will be given I have 4 metres in that side? I do like the idea of a clean and uncluttered island.

I will be the only one living there so won’t (hopefully) have a lot of mess.

If you have your dishwasher nearest to where you unload dishes & cutlery it will be the most efficient, I find I have less pots and pans to put away and lots more wine glasses and coffee cups(maybe that’s just me!). Having the dishwasher near these drawers makes it easier to put things away.

the best way to keep a pantry as well as the longer island is to rotate the island across the room and maybe the void and study nook could be used by the lift and/or laundry??? please share plans for upstairs and whole downstairs..

I would swap the cooktop with the sink so that the cooking doesn't protrude as much into the living space and add a small sink in the island. I don't have a WIP just a bank of Pantries along with the fridge similar to the first Plan and couldn't be happier

A study desk added next to the fridge across the back of the lift would easily fit into the space