This is a galley kitchen. You can gain better function by deepening counters to 28-30" from a common 25.5". The extra work zone space is very valuable.

I'd investigate and demo an induction range. Frigidaire or Bosch.

@sarahachevalier - I will respond in order, thank you!

The opening at the top middle in the picture I posted is the door to the dining room. (Unfortunately it can't be a pocket door because the wall is bearing.) At the bottom right is the back door, leads outside. The opening at the top left is a tight and low hallway.

1. The sink is close to the wall, but in the final layout not that close - there will be enough room for a drying mat or rack in between the sink and the wall. It could certainly go under the other window, although that is less ideal for a lefty like me. (My righty husband might prefer it that way, ha.) The layout I posted was based on measurements they took after demo but before framing-in...I should have an updated version reflecting the framing soon.

2. We are going to have drawers in between the trash cabinet and the corner one, but I'm curious, why do you prefer drawers to a corner cab? Doesn't that lead to wasted space in the corner. I think the plan for the corner cab is a super susan or some sort of pull-out susan.

3. Unfortunately, the angled cabinets on either side of the stove are a necessity. On the fridge side (left of the stove), the fridge (which is a French door model) can't open enough without the angled cabs. And on the right, there isn't enough clearance, we think we would end up with bruised hips from the corner.

4. Fridge is not in the middle of a cab run. It is sunk into a niche. To the right of the fridge is the stove run. To the left of the fridge is a structural beam and then to the left of that are some shallow cabinets/shelves and a little counter space. That's where our microwave and some auxiliary space will be. But there is a beam and a little wall in between the fridge and that space, and the cabs and counter are shallow. The space there requires some creativity and isn't ideal because of the dummy/door situation directly adjacent. Other suggestions would be good!

5. No way to store anything inside the dummy unless we have it stick even further out into the kitchen. It is already very tight, you're likely to smack your head on the inside of the dummy when you use that door. Also, the window over the dummy is on the low side, so that countertop is just shy of normal height.

@dan1888 - that is an excellent idea. The space in between the two sides of the galley is very wide and I think we would really benefit from extra deep counters!

We have a deposit down on a Jenn-Air induction range...I have used induction burners before but have never lived with an induction range before. It feels like the only option for us since gas is not feasible, I don't want propane and I hate electric ranges. Have you lived with an induction range? Love or hate? (Put briefly, we can't have gas because the local gas company has an ongoing labor dispute and they are not doing conversions until ~June-July at the earliest.)

sarah and dan have good suggestions. I'd also put the sink under the other window, and make it a straight run, so that the DW can go to the left. I'm right-handed and my DW has been on the left for 24 years--one becomes accustomed to whichever side it's on. When I use the DW at my father-in-law's, it seems awkward, although it's on the right, because it's different than mine.

I pulled the cabinets out on the sink run, and pulled the fridge out on the other wall, to allow you to use all 24" deep drawers. I added countertop and a drawer base in the corner, with filler in front of the stub wall. You can barely clip the countertop on the outside corner by the hall, with a minimum of filler on that side. I have a 28" wide entry to my kitchen, from the LR, and I have the corner countertop clipped. Both corners are clipped on that run in my kitchen--I like clipped corners in a cottage/bungalow kitchen. You can also do the same on the counter by the back door.

@mama goose -- thank you for this. It's definitely something to consider, whether we would be better off without the L in the corner (although it's a more substantial L than this initial plan shows). My thought with the sink location was more about the amount of counter space to the left of the sink and less about the d/w, but this is food for thought. Definitely planning on putting an open shelf or two on the wall between the back door and the counters. Do you think if we clip the corner leading into the hallway, we won't need to do the 45 degree angle? Would the clip be enough to keep us from whacking ourselves on it?

The dummy cabinet is really difficult. I'm attaching some more renderings to make it a little easier to see the problem (don't mind the random "cabinet" writing - that is the dummy, my PDF conversion software is wonky). That stub wall can be as big as we want it to be because right now the kitchen is down to studs, but I think if we pull the fridge out more or add drawers or deeper cabs to the left of the fridge, it will block off the window too much.

Do you think if we clip the corner leading into the hallway, we won't
need to do the 45 degree angle? Would the clip be enough to keep us
from whacking ourselves on it?

I don't recall anyone hitting his hip on the clipped corner in my kitchen. Our extended family dinners are served buffet-style from that counter, and everyone comes through the narrow door on the right from the LR. This is an in-progress pic of the corner on the right side of the run:

(The cabinets are vintage, bought from a Craigslist seller, and while I'd love to have all drawers, I also love these old cabinets. I used all drawers on the other side of the kitchen, to make up for the inconvenience. My house is a bungalow, built in the late 1920's, and comes with it's own quirks. ;)

The following pic is the other end, after cabinets were painted and doors were replaced. The narrow cabinet on the end was built to fill in the gap because the vintage base didn't take up all the wall space--as you can see, that cabinet actually has a narrow, angled corner, to match the clipped counter corner. That angled section lines up with the stub wall; although I could have made it a 'dummy' section, it has a little alcove in front of the stub wall, where I installed some left-over adjustable shelving track. Small shelves hold plastic Tupperware cups that I no longer use, but that my kids can't seem to give up, and they're easy for the grands to reach. I keep cutting boards and baking sheets in the deeper section of the narrow cabinet:

So, you could have a clipped corner, rather than the 45 degree angles, and lose less space in the base cabinets, but seeing the renderings, maybe pulling the fridge forward to match the cabinet bases would restricted the area between it and the stub wall by the back door.

I think I'd omit the stub wall by the back door, unless you have constant traffic from that door. How many months of the year do you have frigid weather? Omitting that wall would open the kitchen to light from the door, and improve traffic flow, and it would gain you a few more inches of counter and base cabinet space.

Making the sink run straight, instead of an L, will give you space for another drawer base, which will be more useful than a corner susan, and relocating the sink to the other window will put it and the DW closer to the DR entry, and you have a wide section of prep space to the right. It would also keep the DW out of the main prep space, so a helper could load the DW while you are prepping. If you omit the stub wall by the back door, and pull the fridge forward, you also gain counter space, and a drawer base, to the left of the fridge.

Another idea would be to center the sink between the windows, with a shorter upper cabinet above (or open shelves). You'd have ample space for prepping on each side of the sink, and dishes could be kept near the DR entry, so a helper could also unload the DW, or gather dishes to set the table, without interfering in your prep and cooking tasks. In that case, you could still have the L (green rectangles), but I don't think it would gain you that much useful storage space over an extra drawer base. You would gain the extra upper cabinet:

Your cabinets look great and I love the countertops. Gorgeous.

This is New England, so it's frigid 9 months of the year. I'm exaggerating, but it's at least 6 months. The back door is in real life going to be our main entry (it's right by the driveway) so I think we need that stub wall to block the wind and also to give us a faux mudroom with some cubbies for dog leashes and hats and things, corral the mud a bit.

Centering the sink is not a bad idea. The previous owners had it between the windows. We had planned to center it on the right hand window because I'm left handed and everyone seems to like a sink in front of a window. I'll mention that to our KD. It would be nice to have the two prep zones. It would also let us put the dishwasher on one side of the sink and trash on the other.

I'm attaching an updated schematic. This reflects the actual framed-out kitchen. The L is longer and there is one additional cabinet on the L wall (18" drawer base and upper), so I think it is probably worth keeping. Our current thought is to get rid of the upper cabinets in between the two windows in order to bring in more natural light. I'll also talk to the KD about the clipped corner on right of the stove, but I do think it might make the hallway too much of a tunnel.

Thank you for your excellent thoughts!!