New build kitchen help

13 years ago

I have been spending most of my time absorbing info in the building a home forum, but we're hoping to begin to make some decisions regarding the kitchen. (Going to visit the custom cabinet folks over the weekend!)

This is our first home (only apartment living, previously) so that seems to make all of these choices even more difficult. That said, we are not married to the current layout at all. It is simply what the architect drew up. We definitely foresee our home being the gather place for our friends and family, with "helpful" small children around. We have a two-year-old with plans for another baby or two.

We're going for a pretty traditional, classic look. Thus far, we are leaning toward white cabinets and stained island. Super white quartzite perhaps? Definitely hardwood floors.

Notes: The architect has pictured a two tier island, and it will be all one level. No bar chairs on the side closest to the refrigerator. In addition, we're seriously contemplating a prep sink on the island.

We very much welcome all ideas and thoughts! Thanks all.

I am attaching photos of the kitchen area and then one for perspective of the kitchen in the rest of the home.

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icedC
Original Author
13 years ago
OH and we hate "lazy susans." What else can we do in the corner? I have seen the corner drawers on houzz. Would that be better?
User
13 years ago
A plain L shaped corner cabinet is the most efficient use of corner space, but can be a bit difficult to access. You can put stuff in every inch of it though. Lazy susans are the second most efficient use of corner space, but they don't make use of it all. A blind corner with a LeMans type pull out would be the third most efficient. It requires a sequence of moves to access the space though. A corner drawer would be the fourth, but it has a lot of wasted space. A blind corner still allows you to use some space, but it's hard to get to. A void corner doesn't use an entire box of corner space (sometimes it can be used from the other side, like a peninsula or an adjacent room) but often it give better storage in the kitchen to the other cabinets where the corner would have been.
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User
13 years ago
On your plan, without dimensions of the island and the aisles, the best suggestions that I could make would be to move the DW to the other side of the sink and add a prep sink to the island in the corner across from the fridge.
icedC
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks for your help, holly. Apparently our plan is otherwise perfect. The architect might be a second job as a kitchen designer ;)