Don't forget about a landing zone for the fridge. When you come home from the grocery store, you're going to drop bags and start loading the fridge. A countertop next to it is very nice.

Hi Paula,

We're in the design phase ourselves. I found this site yesterday - it may be helpful to you. Good luck!

Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen Design Guidelines

And angled stove/range takes up alot more real estate then the size of the range itself. I can't remember the exact dimenions (others will) but I do know I was surprised at how much space it did take up. I'm concerned it would leave you with very limited space to the left of the stove right before where you want to move the door (by where the frig is shown now?)

Can you post a floorplan of the entire space? That will be a big help.

Hi houseful. This is the entire floor plan of the kitchen space I'll be using.

Sorry, I meant a floorplan of the whole first floor.

Corner ranges are a great way to solve some problems, but since they take up an enormous amount of space, I would avoid having one unless there were no other solution or unless I had a lot of space to spare.

If you're already moving the laundry room door and enlarging the window, I think I'd prefer to have the range on the north wall and switch the sink and DW. If I'm reading your plans correctly, you'd have 46" to accommodate a 30" range and a 16" base cab next to it before you reach the door (or even more with a narrower door). We have a 15" base cab to the left of our range, and it's plenty of room, especially since the space on the other side is so big.

If the fridge is across from the peninsula, I don't think the absence of landing space next to it will be a problem. The landing space we use now is the island across from the fridge, even though we do have room on one side of the fridge.

Thank you everyone -

houseful - I don't have a entire floor plan. Our home is a ranch style home. We have a 10X12 bedroom next to the DR (south) and the LR directly West of the Kitchen with basement stairs in between. Our Laundry Room is directly N. of our kitchen. It also serves as a mud room and a back door entry. the back door in the laundry room is about 2 feet away from our kitchen S. wall. I struggle with the size of our DR being too small, but hubby says no adding on! It's hard to shrink the kitchen because of all the entry ways we have in it that we can't delete or change.

Holigator - I think that's where I'll put on my stove or cook top is on the N. wall. It seems so far away from the DR area, but we have the peninsula as a landing area. It makes more sense to have the stove closer to the sink. I like the idea of moving the dishwasher over to the other side of the sink as well.

My next question is: Do I have room for a double oven and fridge, microwave drawer on the West wall and how would you position them? Would you position them with a counter in between?

Also, any ideas on whether it would be a good idea shorten the counter on that West Wall counter top to give a little more room in the DR? I know extra counter space is nice, but the way it is now when we have large gatherings (3) times a year the person sitting in the last chair blocks the way through to the kitchen. We have a large living room that we usually add tables in to entertain also.

Thank you so much, .. Paula