If you plan on having cabinets on both sides of the kitchen you will not have enough room for an island. Base cabinets are 2 foot deep, you should have 3.5 feet space between island and cabinets. 4 ft (cabinets) plus 7 ft of floor space leaves you only a 1 ft wide island. Just an FYI. When you take a wall down between a kitchen and dining room. Your home decreases by one room. You will only have an eat in kitchen and a living room instead of an eat in kitchen, dining room and living room. I don't know if you plan on listing your home in the future or if this is your forever home.

So you’re planning a 100K remodel? 150K? 200K? Because that’s the direct path from those ideas. It ain’t $198 and done. It only involves every single system in your house, and all new flooring too.