We need to see a floor plan to be helpful. Include the surrounding/adjoining spaces please.

Thanks for your reply.

Are you using the formal dining room every day, once a week, twice a year? Today's casual life styles rarely require such formality. I'd move the kitchen that direction. With the additional space gained, the current dinette area could easily handle an extendible table for your special meals and guest occasions. Eliminating that angled peninsula would join the family & dinette into a spectacular entertaining space.

AFritzier were you thinking of something like this? It feels like we might need to create this galley opening to avoid walking around the expanded island to get in the kitchen from the family room. Forgive my crude drawing and white out!

Maybe this is what AFritzier was thinking? You could move the stove to the wall on the right and vent out the back wall.

Do a fridge and wall oven on the bottom wall.

decoenthusiaste i understand your point about the dining room. I have projects on that table half of the time! This dining room opens into a living/piano room which opens into the foyer. Wondering if that direction might be significantly more expensive? Thanks so much for the comments.

You haven't mentioned what your budget is. I assumed you're ready for a gut and re-boot. An extending table in the dinette would handle any and all projects, but you may prefer to let them lounge around a bit before completing them. I'm for optimizing for re-sale, and right now the entire area is very congested and a traffic nightmare, IMO.

That was a concern about my redraw as my main kitchen traffic pattern would be through a work station. We have not found that to be the case currently. Thanks again!

I find the issue to be the stairwell and hallway junction with the protruding peninsula. I do like the island with integrated table, but couldn't find a good photo to illustrate it for you, so I began to consider the other room as an option that will make your home more market ready for the next generation of buyers.

Pending budget I would be more inclined to relocated the kitchen to the dining room.

Thank Karen! Your version looks much better than mine.

Yes Karen's version is precisely what I was thinking in regards to island shape.

My silly computer and its quirks

I would be more inclined to relocated the kitchen to the dining room.

Hopefully I have attached picture of possible new layout as followup to advice received. Concerned about range being across from sink. Relocating to this location creates continuous 54” of counter space and outside vent possibility but could move back to current location beside refrig and stay with down draft and/or recirculate. End of island would be rounded or possibly 3 angled sides that mirror the bay window. Appreciate any thoughts on this proposal. Demo scheduled for July 1.

Here is an alternate version -separating sink and range but less continuous counter space.

Updated layout. Increased island width on one end with long radius transitioning to reduced width (smaller cabinets) in order to increase isle width while keeping island within 2" of bay center. Will this be enough to keep range and sink in same isle? Can I steal some cabinet space back? Should I just relocate the range to the traffic isle as in the previous picture?

retro’s, I don’t mind the range across from sink, and it has opened up wonderfully, but where is your dish and glassware storage? Where do you go when unloading the dw?

sorry rtross

autocorrect is is killing me!

Thanks D N! Right now we have dish and glassware in cabinets above DW - no longer an option! Not sure what is common when DW in island. I was thinking in the upper cabinet directly across from DW beside range (otherwise will be cookware/spices) or across the isle in the uppers beside pantry cabinet. I could move the range over there but will loose that 54" of continuous counter for prep and lock me into a down draft as we have now.

I know you know this, but look at your current dish/glass storage (cab width, #of cabs, #of shelves), decide if it‘s enough, and make sure you have at least that much space within two steps of the dw.

(Don’t ask me how I learned this!)

I am used to storing in uppers but maybe that lower cabinet opening into the isle off the end of island will be the closest. Geesh...so many decisions and no chance for redos! Thanks for the insight!