I think you'd need to fix the drawing before anyone could comment. It would be helpful if you could say what you want in your kitchen - less walking, more counter space, a change in orientation to face another direction or ... A little bit about what kind of stuff you cook and how many people cook. When you post the next drawing, please include the locations of any windows and what appliances you want.

The easiest way to count things is to say each square equals one foot in either direction. At this stage, it just needs to be whole and half feet. As you get nearer to a finished plan, the drawings will get more detailed and more accurate.

Following is in case it helps:

What you've drawn is 17 feet long for the left side cooktop cabinets. It's 25 feet long for the top cooktop to pantry wall. The little kick out at the pantry is 8 feet wide on the doorway side and about 8.5 feet on the blank wall. Both legs of the sink "L" are about 11 feet long. There is a gap of about 6.5 feet between the sink peninsula and the left side of the cooktop run.

As drawn, it's impossible for there to be 7 feet from the ref to the sink. You've drawn a 5 foot ref and a 5 foot pantry.

Thanks for your suggestions bmorepanic-

The drawing wasn't as off as I had made it sound. 1 cm equalled a foot, which is guess is not very helpful on graph paper that is not scaled to 1 square = 1 cm :)
The only part I couldn't get right was the triangle. I have redrawn, now with each square = approximately one foot (the triangle still doesn't work for some reason).

We are a four person household with usually 1 cook for dinner. Though my husband and I 'bump' each other a lot, especially in the morning, when he is getting breakfast and I am getting our two kids breakfast and lunch for school. I am wondering if the space lends itself in anyway to setting up separate zones. Right now I feel you have to cross over the whole space to get anything done.

The space has a small transom window that is above the fridge. We are looking at a 36 in cooktop, 36 in sink, 30 inch oven, french door fridge.

Hope the new drawing is better!
Thanks for any input!

Just thinking...

Wow-it's so cool to have a totally different perspective!
Headed out to dinner with my family and I'm bringing a copy of the plan with me to look at--thank you!!!

Bmorepanic, thanks for taking the time to help me. Can I ask how you type on the drawing like that?

After looking at the plan, I think the first one, or variation of, is more feasible. In the 2nd plan I worry about working at the sink and the flow of people walking behind getting to the fridge, etc.

What are you picturing on the 2 walls of the bigger L? On the left wall it looks like open shelving. How about the wall that says 'about 5 feet'? no uppers?

I'm still not sure if it solves the problem of so much walking between everything. I guess you would prep near the sink and just carry over to the stovetop.

Good point aout the setback so I don't hit my head or fell too closed in.

Thoughts on where you'd put a microwave?

Thanks again!

What I use is kinda brutal, I copy your drawing and load it into mspaint (windows). Then I type on top of it. That's why they're always simplistic boxes.

I had much the same thoughts about distance. This is less walking.

Microwaves are kinda personal for location. Some people do a lot of reheating, but not cooking and some people do a lot of cooking. If you're both, I like the smaller drawer micros and regular micros in a wall cabinet - provided either fits into your vision and style. I have a plain micro that sits on a counter in my tiny pantry.

Leaving the side walls of the corner cooktop open is one way of treating it. The one with this post has more wall cabinets. I don't think either way or good or bad - it's what you want. Since we don't know each other at all, I draw different things to see what you like.