Kitchen design issues, please help.
Hello, we just closed on our new home and the kitchen layout is a bit akward and we would like to open it up and get rid of all the honey oak. We cannot figure out a good layout that would work for our space. At this point we are open for suggestions and could use any advise or comments we can get! We would like to remove all walls between living and dining room. Thanks in advance!!
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When you say 'wine bar' are you meaning something with a place to sit and wine is stored? or just a place to store wine? Would be eating on the island or on the peninsula? And where were you thinking of adding a peninsula?
I'd love to make some suggestions but just need some clarifications on how you would like be using the space to give you some good ones.
Thanks!!
Also, what is behind the laundry cabinet on the east side? Is it possible to open this up to an adjoining room or hall on the other side?
I'm glad you are taking advantage of your ideabook. That is helpful for us to understand what you are looking for and your style. If you happen to come across other things that fit your taste and post them for us to see, that is helpful.
The fan/light seems to be 'lonely'. Where the island goes we should think about some lighting there, even with skylights, for night lighting.
It's seems apparent at this point that there is no outside wall to vent a range, so that will have to be vented through the ceiling and roof because of off-gassing. Whether it's code in your area or not, it's just safer.
I might also mention, there appears to be nowhere to put ones' coats. Will that be a consideration or is that already taken care of?
I would also be helpful to know how many are in your family and do you both cook. That changes some of the kitchen clearance requirements.
The east wall of the laundry room backs up to the closet of our spare bedroom or my fiance's 2nd closet. So I would have a hard time convincing her to get rid of it. The remaining kitchen wall backs to a hallway.
There is actually a coat closet in the entry way area, I just failed to add it to my sketch.
There are just 2 of us in the home and we both enjoy cooking together. We also (like many others) love to entertain and have friends over and would love to have a nice open space with plenty of casual seating in the kitchen and opened up to the living room. We thought having seating in both the islands would be great.
Once again I greatly appreciate all your help and I am very thankful that your taking the time to help out!! I look forward to expanding my idea book as suggested.
Thanks again, Mark
I just started glancing through this conversation and thought I'd chime in. It looks like there are some doorways to other space in your house - specifically the door heading left out of the kitchen. It also look like there are windows at the top pf the kitchen plan looking onto a yard. Can you verify?
The hardest part about this plan is the awkward utility room in the corner of the dining space. This is a bit of a beast to work around!
I'd like to suggest this as a preliminary plan to kick things off. At this point it is not scaled but dimensions are taken into consideration. There are probably many different feasible possibilities. But this may help you work through what you like and don't like.
This would give your fiancée a 6x6 +/- closet and POSSIBLY a place to put the wine bar in the dining room. It eliminates one of the doors on the north wall, to give you a longer cabinet run to work with, It would keep the doors in the hallway hidden from the living area, open up the living area by removing the walls between the living room and the dinette and the kitchen, turn the laundry into the hallway and get it out of the kitchen, gives you a more central door to the bedrooms, bathroom and laundry while still hiding the doors in the hallway from the main living area.
I saw your sketches and comments. I'll take a look later this week. I'm in an all-day seminar tomorrow and then have a business networking event tomorrow evening. I'll be in touch Thursday or Friday.
Cheers,
Mark
I'm a little confused about the access to the laundry area. Not a closet like drawn but do you want the room to remain where it is and just the access to it?
I was hoping that Shuler Architecture would rejoin the conversation. But if he doesn't or if another architect doesn't chime in here. You could go to the black bar at the top of the page and click "Find Local Pros" to find one in your area. You could also repost the question by starting your question with "Archtects....."
At this stage of the game, it is premature to get into the details of the kitchen. Once the final design and kitchen measurements are nailed down, I could give you advice on appliance placement and actual kitchen cabinet layout. As a kitchen designer I used to get pans from architects who drew a kitchen 'placeholder' in the kitchen area and the kitchen designer would take it from there. Some architects really get into it and do a nice job though.
The blue boxes are skylights and I would hope they could be mirrored on the opposite side of the room. I did this in Windows Paint, so was not able to layer the drawing to show them on top of the other things. An interior designer could help here too with furnishings.
Best wishes.