Avoiding the Sink in the Island

11 years ago

Wanted the kitchen sink under a window, but the the open floor plans of today, and making everything 'fit', the initial drawings came back with the sink in the island.

Any thoughts on how to place the sink and just leave a prep sink in the island? My thought is to put the Refrigerator and Microwave on the short wall shown at the bottom, and double oven on the long wall just as you enter the kitchen from the bottom. Cooktop placed as shown.

Just looking at options to NOT place the sink/dishwasher in the island.

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ohfirsttimecustombuild
Original Author
11 years ago
Sketch of Kitchen - Dining above
sjhockeyfan325
11 years ago
If you want a "clear" island, I'd move the refrigerator to the left (looking at the picture), move the cooktop "down" and put the cleanup sink and DW on the same counter run as the cooktop, farther to the top of the picture. I don't personally care about having the sink under the window (it might have been important 50 years ago before dishwashers were prevalent, but I don't wash a lot of dishes, and I certainly don't stand at the sink washing dishes and staring out the window!)
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lisa_a
11 years ago
Without dimensions, it's pretty tough to give advice but given what you've posted, my suggestion would be to move the fridge to the top of the right wall, swap out cook top and oven for a range, shift the range down, move the clean-up sink to the bottom run where the fridge was, and add a prep sink a MW drawer to the island.

Whether that will work depends on whether you have enough room to make those changes.

Does the door at the bottom of the kitchen lead to the dining room?

If you give us more information (go to New to Kitchens? Read me first!) and a measured drawing (does not have to be to scale), we could give you better suggestions.
Rachel (Zone 7A + wind)
11 years ago
My layout is 15x11' for reference and I have the sink and range on the perimeter. If you look for my other posts you can see the details.
ohfirsttimecustombuild
Original Author
11 years ago
Kitchen is 16' wide, narrowing to 15' in the dining area at the top. Kitchen is 18' long, with dining area 15' additional feet above that. The plan has no forma dining area - we will use that 15x15 area for formal table, plus the island seating. Cased opening at the bottom leads to hallway, and Mud/Garage to right. The door at end of cooktop cabinet is for a walk-in Panty that will house a secondary Refrigerator.
gwlake
11 years ago
I have a prep sink going into island. My dish sink will be on the wall. I have a sink in the island in our rental and I hate it. My plan originally called for sink in the island. I moved it. Some have said you have no window. I said I have a prep sink. I am doing shelves above the dish sink and opening it wider than my sink. I also am putting lighting. Over that area. I need my island for cooking. Not for dirty dishes
funkycamper
11 years ago
Isn't there another discussion thread about this with a better layout to work with? Or maybe I have you confused with an identical floorplan?