What are the dimensions?

Do you not find the island always in your way?

Completely inadequate budget. Less than 1/3 of what is needed to tackle this. And it’s a bad design that is completely unsympathetic to the home’s heritage. It might as well be in a suburban tract house, other than the built in fire risk that even they wouldn’t do..

You need to use what funds you have now to hire a Kitchen Designer. Create a master plan. One that works for a home that age. Then keep saving to implement that plan.

I’m just tickled to have your thoughtful input. Please see
responses below.

Emilyam819-

I added dimensions to new layout.
The island is a roller that we already use. We love it. It is a great place to
put fridge items and groceries. It’s also a nice barrier to keep visitors out
of my work space, and give them room to help with prep. When loading dishwasher
it’s pretty tight. But sometimes I roll island over a bit to make space during
clean up time.

We tend to prep on island or
peninsula. The counter next to fridge has toaster and becomes husband &
kids junk pile. I’m tempted to turn it all into pantry in hopes that they would
dump junk elsewhere. I just hate to
think of where new junk pile would end up.

Build beautiful-

1.
Ideally you'd like a little counterspace on
both sides of stove currently any hot item that spills goes right into your
breakfast nook floor.

We are planning to keep the stove &
hood in current spot to save costs. The load bearing wall right next to it is
was a brick exterior wall ages ago. I agree that adding counter to the right
would be great, but it doesn’t seem feasible as the stove just fits to the side
of the window and we have a trap door in the breakfast room that we need to
occasionally access. I’ll attach an updated floorplan with walls marked.

2.
In
the updated version of the breakfast nook, everyone has their back to the
windows.

Agreed about the backs to the windows in
the breakfast nook. Perhaps I’ll just keep table & chairs.

1&2
Alternate: Can you extent the wall to the breakfast nook, if not adding
counterspace on the stove side, it at least keeps hot stuff off the floor and
allows for the updated layout to be mirrored & lets people face the window.

I wish we could, but given their load bearing
walls, I don’t think it’s feasible in our budget.

3.
The
bar seems to have cabinets on both sides, which means neither side would be
full depth & someone sitting at the bar would have to move to access them.
Alternate: Swap your pots for your pull out trash/recycle and people won't have
to get in your cook-zone to throw something out.

The bar currently has a pony wall, the
cabinets facing out were a floorplanner user error on my part. I’ll keep the
wall and maybe face it with some interesting craftsman tile to stave off all of
the shoe scuffs that we have now. I added a new floor planner rendering with a
tile option- but our pattern would be different.

Thank you for the great suggestion
regarding trash. In my old kitchen I loved having trash and dw flanking sink,
but I think you’re correct that it would just be too awkward here.

4.
9"
pull-out pantries can look cool, but you already have a spice island and all
that you could fit in 9" would be a broom. Altlernate: Extend that side of
breakfast nook wall & relocate the existing pantry door to the kitchen
side. You'd pick up some extra storage shelving where the exist'g door is &
not have to leave the kitchen to get kitchen supplies.

I added 9” pull out to give space between
wall & fridge. I have spices in drawer as well as hanging in pantry now, so
I’m confident we could put it to good use and I think I would find it less cumbersome
than 12”x 24” pantry. I’ve included new
floorplan where loadbearing walls and trap door are in red. Those need to stay.
The laundry room wall could move: I’ve colored it green. You have me thinking
about maybe changing laundry access so I could possibly move pantry to kitchen
side.

I agree $20K is light, but our 20yr old ikea cabinets are falling
apart and hubby insists on replacing this year. I may have to forgo the 48”
fridge, but I’m still hoping to find a steal at our local scratch & dent
spot. I’ve sourced a decent semi-custom
cabinet line that will run about $5500 installed. But that doesn’t include the
laundry room. Maybe we’ll finance the fridge…

GreenDesigns-

I appreciate you taking the time to
look at my plans. I agree the house has had some unfortunate alterations that
we would not have chosen ourselves. The lackluster remodel is why we were able
to afford this house in our dream neighborhood. After living with it for 12
years, we actually like the way the open concept functions for our family and
our lifestyle. As much as we would love
to spend $60k on a new kitchen, it’s just never going to make sense for us. Thank
you for your suggestion. I’ve had disappointing experiences with “designers” in
the past. But I agree that kitchens are quite a specialty and I will investigate
some local resources.

Thank you again everyone!

Hello again shannonallsworth ,

You are NOT off base with your budget. I guess I missed the memo, I thought our job included finding solutions & guiding our clients; not chastising them for doing something other than, 'design work,' with their lives.

With that being said, I'd be happy to share some actual solutions to bring this project in, for free. Just shoot me a message right here on Houzz. My Houzz representative assured me these forums are meant to help people.

Thanks,

-frank

Build Beautiful

20K and your wish list is just not going to happen. An builder grade or IKEA kitchen will cost more than that. That's the average cost of just cabinets in an average mid grade kitchen redo. Or just appliances in an upper end redo. And you have much grander than average wants. You have upper end wants, not average. That kitchen you want costs 130K.