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Help! With layout.
We are redoing our kitchen (our house, really), and I am starting to stress over where to put appliances. In the present layout, I do almost all of my prep work between the sink and range, barely a 2' space. There's 9' to the right, and that looks unbalanced to me.
I have already moved the pantry, which I've never had and do love, to the left of the fireplace. it could be moved elsewhere but I want to keep it for sure. I also added an old workbench (24 x 60) in the middle of the space to use as an island, and that works for me.

My first thought was to flip the dishwasher with the sink, adding a pullout trash cabinet to the left of the dishwasher. The fridge location would stay the same although I'm not crazy about seeing it to my left when you walk into the kitchen. We are getting a counter depth model, so perhaps that will not look as obtrusive. The cooktop and wall oven would stay where the range is now.

My second idea was to put the new cooktop to the right of where the DWis now, which puts it in front of the window. I've seen some beautiful examples of that on houzz. As I love the look of the built in fridge/wall oven/steam or mw, I thought of doing that either on the pantry wall next to the FP, or on the wall that the fridge is on now. I find it really hard to visualize a layout. I would love to empty everything and move it to where I think it could go, but of course I can't.

I would love your opinions, please! Maybe you can see something that I can't. You've helped me enormously with my appliance choices. Now I just have to figure out where to put them! Thanks!

This post was edited by Barbarav on Fri, Jul 5, 13 at 17:24