Tough to say.... without photos or floorplan!

somehow the photo did not show. here you go. thanks.the room behind the kitchen is laundry, there is a counter and a sink where i will use my noisy small appliances.

This post was edited by maysf on Fri, Jan 4, 13 at 12:00

try again. not sure why the photo doesn't show.

It is showing.
A) I personally, hate the little angle walls around the table. Those will be in the way.

B) The kitchen forum is where you will get the biggest bang for your buck on kitchen feedback.

Your pantry seems a little far removed, but it is hard to say without knowing what you intend to put in there. My pantry is about that size, and is large enough.

My guess is that the kitchen forum will not like the angled walls either...and probably recommend you add a prep sink to the end of the island closest to the table (across from the fridge). Otherwise, it looks like a good plan!

You don't have to have a prep sink, but they are popular over on the kitchen forum, especially with your type of layout. It makes the work triangle a bit more efficient and leaves the main sink open, for a clean up area. Hope that helps :)

Kirkhall, lavender_lass: what do you think about not having the two angled wall? As you can see they are white color, we have just added them in to define the dinning area. What do you suggest if there are no angled walls, 90 degree corner walls? Thanks.

No walls at all.

The plan is workable, but could be improved, depending on personal preferences. For example:

--The counter space above the sink appears largely wasted space, since the range for cooking is placed between the refrigerator and double sink, making this the heavily used area. An alternative is to exhange locations of the sink and range, perhaps exchanging the range for a cooktop and adding a seperate oven stack at the end of the counter line above the sink. This would position the sink closer to the refrigerator and pantry, reducing the steps for getting and washing food stocks, while making use of the underused counter run;

--Looking at the dining area, where will dishes, place mats, napkins, serving pieces, etc. be stored? Looks like this may not have been considered. If it were my house, I'd plan a build-in line of upper and lower cabinets for the purpose. Pushing the dining room wall (one or the other) 2'-0 will allow the addition, and make the room look like more than blank gyp-board walls.

The diagonal walls are somewhat odd, but it's clear they are there to attempt to define a "dining space", part of which is also circulation space. There are probably better appearing and more functional ways to do this using 1-2 free-standing columns (square or round) of some sort and a dropped soffit at the column line.

Good luck on your build.

Virgilcarter: thanks so much for your input. Now I have some homeworks to do. I am checking on Internet about the free standing columns, and need to think through where and how to implement them. Please let me know if you see something could work and where to put them. Thanks again.

At not quite 9 foot wide, this is a narrow dining room. The people seated against the wall aren't going to have space to get in and out. I'd consider doing a bench against the wall, which takes less space.

I see that you're trying to define the dining room space with the little walls, but I think you'll be unhappy in the long run. You might accomplish the same task with a differentiated ceiling height.

I would have a hard time reaching across that wide island to clean it.

I agree that the pantry is far from the kitchen. Is that a mechanical room behind the stove wall? Could this be reworked?