Good pick up on the "Mood Room," I'll have to get that fixed.

I wish I knew what the original layout of the house was like, but it has been added on to and renovated so many times that the original details are lost.

Interesting idea to put the kitchen in the bedroom. I hadn't thought about that before. Thanks!

Even before I saw the new design, I thought there was more room in the dining room, to become the new kitchen.

The updated kitchen seems tight and squeezed in.

Have you consider swapping the Diningroom w/ the kitchen?

Note: I'm not an architect. Just a person who cooks a lot.

Hate to say this but nothing about your new kitchen would work in terms of it being functional. Aisle's need to be a minimum of 42" to work. Additionally, try visualizing cooking a meal in what you have designed and you'll see what I mean in terms of extra steps, and if more than one person is in the kitchen how difficult it will be for both to move around one another.

I also think you should consider moving the kitchen to the bedroom area and making what is now the kitchen into the breakfast room. And to do so, I'd open up the whole space by taking out the closets in the bedroom.

I would highly recommend reading through the links in this thread to understand the best way to layout a kitchen. Of course with your home being an old house, you have more constraints than a new build, but it can be done more efficiently. It may not be 100% ideal, but the idea is to get it to be the best it can be. :)

New to Kitchens? Read Me First

Thanks for the suggestion huango. We hadn't really thought of moving the kitchen to the dining room, that a good idea. I wonder what to do with the bedroom then, already have a lot of bedrooms in the house.

Thanks for your honesty cpartist. That's what I was afraid of.

We do have some constraints with the age of the house.

Do you think making the connection from the main kitchen to the breakfast room wider would help?

What about eliminating or changing the island?

Thanks!

Seating for 12 in a 13x14 space is asking for a miracle, IMO. I started working on this before I read any of the other responses--it's probably not what you want, but I'll post it any way:

Wow, thank you mama goose! Very helpful to see a different layout.

Any idea what might be original? Is there a 1970s permit you can pull to see where the previous kitchen may have been?

Honestly Michael, I think what Mama just came up with is far superior. Now your breakfast room takes full use of that wonderful bay window. Your dining table can now extend to seat enough people, and while your kitchen is small, it works better.

I personally would switch the ovens with the fridge in Mama's plan and move the sink down more towards the prep area. Then you have the ideal work space from fridge, to sink, to prep, to cooking.

our house was a jumble of add ons from an 19th century cabin to a 1948 ranch. Demo was so fun because it can tell the story of your house. i bet demo on this place will reveal quite a bit. very exciting.

My first thought was same as mama_goose -- move the kitchen to the extra bedroom. I think flowing the kitchen between two rooms as depicted on your proposed floor plan would make for very awkward day to day living and would always feel like a compromise. If you have the resources to do it right the first time I would do so.

I now am going to call my mud room...attitude adjustment or the place to find a good mood room! A powder room as you enter the home may not be a wise choice. Pantry is not communicating with propose kitchen.

I don't mind the powder room as you enter the house, but I don't like that it will be looking out into the living room/dining room. Frankly if you have the full bathroom at the back of the house, I don't think you need a powder room at the front. It's not a huge house. Additionally, I might switch the mudroom and the pantry so the pantry is closer to the kitchen, but I shouldn't talk.

I'd like to suggest reading the "Layout Help" topic to see what information would be really helpful (see end of post). E.g., what can be changed/what cannot be changed? Just plopping down a layout and asking for help isn't enough...we need to know what we have to work with. Right now, people are making suggestions with very little information to know if the suggestions make sense or are even possible. I do agree that your "new" layout is not very functional. Have you considered moving the kitchen to any other space - not just the bedroom, what about the other bedroom or the Dining Room?

I think your mud room could also be improved. In fact, I think you might want to take a step back and look at the entire floor and how the various rooms relate to each other and the flow - which I'm not sure is being adequately addressed here. I'm itching to redesign the entire floor! :-)

Other questions:

Why do you want a "breakfast" room? Do you really need two types of table seating?

You say you "already have a lot of bedrooms in the house" - how many? Where are they? What about full bathrooms?

Do you need two bathrooms on this floor?

What other rooms would you find useful? A library/study/den? Does anyone work from home?

What is the composition of your family?

Is the wood deck area your family entrance? Is this where the groceries are brought into the house?

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Please check the following resources:

Kitchen Design FAQ threads - they will explain things like work zones, aisles, island/peninsula seating, etc. These threads will help you understand questions/comments you will receive.

Layout Help - FAQ for asking for layout help. It has a sample measured layout as well as a description of the other information we need

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Layout Help:

How do I ask for Layout Help and what information should I include?

• http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2767033/how-do-i-ask-for-layout-help-and-what-information-should-i-include

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Kitchen Design FAQ threads:

Kitchen work zones, what are they?

• http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3638270/faq-kitchen-work-zones-what-are-they

Aisle widths, walkways, seating overhangs, work and landing space, and others

• http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3638304/faq-aisle-widths-walkways-seating-overhangs-work-landing-space-etc

How do I plan for storage? Types of Storage? What to Store Where?

• http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3638376/faq-how-do-i-plan-for-storage

Ice. Water. Stone. Fire (Looking for layout help? Memorize this first)

• http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2699918/looking-for-layout-help-memorize-this-first

Can the middle rooms be removed/reconfigured?

Is that an existing powder room or an existing closet "above" the kitchen?

why do you want to move the stairs?

I'm also curious why you want a breakfast room when the dining room table is right there. What would the breakfast table space provide that the dining room isn't currently providing?

Is there a nice view out the back? Seems as if the windows in the pictures are all looking at neighboring houses. If possible, it would be nice to get a more spacious, green view happening from somewhere in the main living areas.

While there may be better ways to reconfigure your rooms, if I'm reading your room dimensions correctly, opening the bedroom to the kitchen may work, too.

I flipped the existing PR with the new pantry and moved the fridge next to the pantry. Extended the exterior kitchen wall to the new breakfast room about 2' and moved the range there, There's now a 2nd reach in pantry in the breakfast room. I'm thinking MW can be in the pantry next to the fridge along with anything you'd need while cooking and the other pantry can hold anything you'd need during breakfast and baking.

Unfortunately, I couldn't fit a good size island in the kitchen, but have a peninsula instead.