We bought this house almost a year ago. We knew when we bought it that we would do a fairly extensive remodel of the kitchen/full bathroom/sitting room on the main floor. We wanted to live in the house for a period of time so we could make better decisions on what exactly we wanted to do. Due to the housing market in this area there wasnt before nor is there now any house we would consider buying instead of this one. We are approaching this adventure with only our wishes and convenience and love of cooking as our primary concern. I will post a graph paper drawing of the current floor plan.

We have considered staying within the current footprint of the house but we also are considering adding on all across the back of the house as that is the only way to increase the sitting room ,which we really desire.

We are retired . We both cook and bake a lot. We have family get togethers regularly and everyone cooks. Our grandson loves to cook as well and is here helping quite often.

We make 3 meals a day. We make all our bread and pasta and do wok cooking many times a week. We cook for others as gifts as well.

We are going to have a 36” Bluestar gas cooktop, we would rather have a separate single oven instead of a range and are looking at the Bluestar French Door electric. We want a 30” single bowl sink . If we keep this footprint we will get a counterdepth fridge of some type but if we go with an addition we will get the Twins by Frigidaire.. have had before and love them.

Hopefully this is enough to get started. We can change anything and everything but the bathroom location but bathroom will have shower not tub and can be rearraneed . The kitchen radiator can be converted to below counter fan /heat and windows can be changed. Mudroom is too small to help with kitchen increase and we are considering having the bathroom door open into it since it’s awful having it open into the sitting room. The closet in the dining room can be reopened into the kitchen as a walkway as it used to be in a previous floor plan of the house. It could also be a pantry on the kitchen side or... it is 5 feet wide inside the space . The PO closed it off and tore out the original kitchen and builtins. I can post pictures of the current kitchen and adjoining spaces. Thank you for any and all suggestions and I welcome questions.