Nothing wrong with a second sink in a large kitchen. They come in all sizes, shapes and materials. It's the faucet and its placement that determines if the sink is a convenience or an obstacle.

When the architect suggested the fridge in the pantry (there is a pocket door between the pantry & kitchen), I was very skeptical. But, it has made the kitchen much more streamline without a protruding fridge. It will also allow me to bring groceries in through the galley kitchen to the pantry, where I can put away cold & canned items with ease. It has also provided me room for a large bookshelf w/ladder in the kitchen (that goes up to the 2nd floor) where I'll have easy access to cookbooks, clay cookware and chotchkes that I haven't been able to have on view. Separating the fridge from the working kitchen...an idea that's different, I know. But, I've come around to liking it.

and if you move the stove into the pantry as well... then it will be easier to cook and your kitchen will be even more streamlined!

pulling your chain a little, sorry. but that is whats happening here... we have a kitchen with kitchen things and then we want it to be a dining room too and then there isnt room for the kitchen things or we dont want to look at the kitchen things so we squirrel them away into a small room and feel very clever. when really if the pantry was just in the kitchen to start with it would be a hellishly wonderful room to cook in!

A kitchen is a kitchen!! It makes no sense to cramp major appliances in a pantry. That is a smaller kitchen next to what? A big room with cabinetry for dishes and a lot of counter top? Or is that a living room, just minus the couch and chairs?! You can do integrated appliances that literally disappear alongside cabinetry in a kitchen!! Bet the arch has no kids and fewer friends. Sorry, but................seriously!!

If you want a second fridge, or second DW/ cleanup area for huge messes and out sized entertaining that's a separate issue. But daily....?? This will be a total pain in the you know what, and you sweating away with no view and your friends trying to cram themselves in there with you. Hope you like caterers. . JMHO : )