I think your drawers look great.

It's fine. Where is your trash?

Looks good!

Ditto: no such thing as too many drawers. Yours is pretty much our configuration, except bar top is to the left, and our corner unit is on a diagonal. We just made sure the middle set was different enough from the flanking banks of 3-drawers to not seem too matchy-matchy. Plus, this gave us a bit more flexibility in terms of storage. Going with full-height doors beneath the sink also helped visually break things up.

Oh good, I'm glad you're liking it. I AM trying to max out drawers over doors. The trash is the tall cabinet directly to the right of the sink. Thanks for making sure I had that in there!

javiwa...thanks for the pic. I'm a visual person and that helps confirm our decision. We could make that middle set 2 drawers or the long one 4 drawers but I do like those little narrow drawers so I think I might keep them. ALso, I think I can break that top long drawer into 2 smaller ones and that might break the look up more.

just make sure you have three inch fillers each on each side of corner. Another option is to convert the 12" drawer into a door with corner pull out or Lemans. This will use some of the dead corner for storage.

I made sure I maximized almost every inch of my dead corner.

I don't think there are too many drawers, but 12" drawers aren't very useful--there's only about 9" internal width. What will you store in the 12" and the 27" wide drawers?

What can you store in 12" wide drawer bases?

• Pot holders
• Foil/Plastic Wrap/Plastic Bags
• Electrical "stuff" -- extension cords, etc.
• Prep/Cooking tools -- ladles, turners, large spoons, etc.
• Trays
• Cutting boards
• "Junk" drawer

However, I recommend doing something a bit different on the peninsula:

• Take a 27" cabinet and turn it 90 degrees
• Install it so it faces outside the Kitchen and against the wall
• The 27" cabinet makes use of the formerly voided corner and the extra 3" acts as the filler needed on the Kitchen side of the peninsula. (Better than a corner susan and much, much better than a blind corner cabinet.)

That's what we did....

Cabinet facing out side the Kitchen is on the left:

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This is what it looks like on the Kitchen side. (We ended up needing more filler than we thought b/c of the warming drawer handle, so we had to add another 3" of filler. If I had it to do over, I would have used a 30"W cabinet turned 90 degrees.)

I still don't think there are good options for blind cabinets. But Buehl...thanks for the suggestion...that is exactly what we are doing so we don't have to deal with the blind on one end. The other..well, it's still blind but I have enough storage now that I'm not worried about it. I put the once a year things there or nothing at all.

12" drawer...plenty of ideas...most likely my kids stuff so it is easy reach for them to do themselves:
water bottles - those small Tupperware containers that get lost everywhere else - measuring cups - small mixing bowls

My thoughts were more small/med drawers than one large drawer to maximize organization and separation.

30" wide is what we had but then we had about 9" more of wasted peninsula space. We had options: 36" wide drawers (felt like they were too big), 27" & 12", 30" & 6" open shelf, 30" & 9" open shelf.

Anybody have the Rev a Shelf baskets that they like? I could slide those in instead of one of my drawers for variety but not sure about it. I'd likely use them for potato storage?

27" drawer will be mixing bowls, cake/muffin trays, pots and pans

Extension cords, junk drawers, and stuff for kids are good ideas for the 12" drawers, but all the other things on buehl's list, I'd want closer to the range and prep area. Also, good idea to make the pots/pans drawers as wide as possible.

I'd want the trash pull-out between the sink and range, under prime prep space. I have a Rev-A-Shelf drawer over my trash pull-out, but it's hidden by the full-height door. It works well for rolls of plastic wrap and aluminum foil. I have to pull out the trash door to access the drawer, but it's a great use of what would be wasted space.

ETA, I hadn't seen the whole layout when I posted, but noticed your other thread, after. I have a 12" trash pull-out, which is sufficient for our family of five. You might consider putting it on the end of the peninsula, where it would be more convenient to the cooking zone, and put the 27" drawers on the inside corner. I didn't read the suggestions on the other thread, so it might have already been suggested. (Or you might have changed the whole layout, due to suggestions made.)

Mainly I did the large trash can because I'm tall and didn't want to bend over every time to pull it out! Perhaps moving it though, which is a new idea-TY-is a good thought. I put the long drawers where they are for the same reason...thinking pots would be in them and it would be convenient to the cooktop. So, I suppose it is a 50/50. :)

I reall love our new 18" trash pullout with a drawer on top. We store silverware in the top drawer. It has two trash cans inside for trash and recycle. A tall trash without a drawer might not be any higher up as some manufacturers mount the bins on the bottom.

Here's the other issue with your current trash location. You will be standing at the peninsula a lot for prepping and feeding kiddos, and will it feel awkward to have the trash opened behind you? I would probably put the trash at the end of the peninsula so that you can prep and put waste directly into the trash from there.

Sorry, I meant the handles were higher up thus making it easier to grab. But I do like the idea of maybe moving it to the peninsula, or at least closer. I thought it should be by the sink...but no?

I can't seem to get these photos upright but hopefully you can see them okay. I posted them on a different thread I had started with a diff question but now thought I should put them here too since some of the posters were different. Anyway, this is what we have laid out. I know it isn't ideal for everyone but it is sooo much better than what we currently have. Keeping within budget we didn't rearrange too much or take down walls. Oven is in front of door but before the fridge was there blocking it anyway. My kids are bigger and the door can close if I need to. The stove is across from my sink which is how it is now anyway and we are used to it. I think I'll put in a pot filler above cooktop to alleviate to much back and forth to sink. Distance b/t peninsula a opposing counter is 40" so plenty of clearance compared to our 30" current set up! And we have a pantry...which did not exist before. I can tweak things out for the next week. I may move the trash to the peninsula as someone mentioned might be a better locale.

There is no such thing as too many drawers!

In theory, yeah, drawers are great! However, when I inventoried everything I need to store in my kitchen and then started sketching out cabinets /considering what actually works ... I'll have roughly 60% drawers, 40% cabinets.

I still don't think there are good options for blind cabinets.

Agreed. Corners are just problems, so the question is, Which negative can you best live with?

What can you store in 12" wide drawer bases?

I have no love of 12" drawers. Too much space is lost in the necessary hardware. 18" is as small I want a drawer ... or a cabinet, for that matter of fact. If you're designing this kitchen, you're in control of this. Either steal 6" from the breakfast room, or shift something sideways, or whatever.