Is there ductwork or electrical above the cabinets between the two rooms? If not, then removing them would open it up a lot. Removing the peninsula and moving the cooktop next to the wall ovens would open it a lot, but you'd lose storage. Much depends on your cooking habits and what you require of a kitchen. If you rarely close the bi-fold doors, remove them to expose more wall area for a larger feeling. Changing the fan to a light/chandy would be a priority for me. Fans blow dust and cool the food when above a table or cooking area. You could gain wall space by closing the half moon opening to the other room and you could narrow the door to the foyer. With a bench against the closed wall and the table moved that direction you gain additional square footage for the kitchen. Is that a double window or a slider by the table? If you're up to exterior changes, that could be made smaller so the kitchen could extend that direction a bit.

Get rid of the island and install only a hood above your range (canopy style,) eliminate soffit above range wall and end your cabinets on the corner to the left of the sink. if you have to work with existing conditions and are keeping plumbing and electrical . if nor it can be re-configure doing the range on the wall directly across existing location, re-locate a counter-depth refrigerator on the opposite side of the double oven eliminating the pantry, make all but 2 base cabinets with drawer ( the sink base and one cabinet next to it for a double waste bin.

Are you remodeling the kitchens or just looking for some cosmetic fixes??

I would suggest - like others removing the cabinetry above the peninsula and doing the chimney hood and the changing that arched opening into a larger rectangle with nice molding around it.

If you are changing out the cabinets, then change the entire layout. Move the ref onto the wall where the wall ovens are and try to get the cooktop in the area where the ref was. Maybe do a thin island in the middle...hard to tell without dimensions.

Good luck!

If you're up for a moderate remodel (rearranging existing cabinets)...

• Move the cooktop (and its cabinet) to the far wall (where there appears to be a refrigerator space)
• To fit the cooktop, you may also have to move the base & upper cabinets next to the current cooktop to the new cooktop wall as well (to replace the ones there right now)
• Move the refrigerator to the same wall as the ovens
• Remove the cabinets over the peninsula
• Remove the corner cabinet over the peninsula as well...maybe replace with the current upper cabinet on the far wall
• Change the counters

Either:

• Leave the peninsula

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• Remove the peninsula and put in an island without seating (there's not enough room for seats). The island could be constructed from leftover cabinets

The Dining Room is so close that in-Kitchen seating isn't really needed

Are the cabinets in good shape? Are they worth keeping for 5 - 10 years or more?

The oven wall is probably load-bearing. Without signifant costs, your best bet would be a wide galley or keeping the shallow u-shape/galley configuration and rearranging things the way Buehl described earlier.

What's through the arched cutout?

Thank you everyone! With the tight space it's going to be tough to have an island and if we do put an island in we wouldn't be able to have any cabinets on the wall with the oven because it wouldn't be to code. So with that, is it worth having an island? Should we just do a large galley? Would there be enough counter space with a galley? I've always loved islands but the space is pretty narrow so not sure it its best.

We are also turn the arched wall into a pony wall because thats a family room. This would of course be if its not load bearing. We are also opened to closing the slider near the arched wall off and making it a window to possibly expand the cabinets and kitchen.