Apologies I’m new to the app and didn’t realize I started a poll!!

You need a kitchen designer for this hot mess. This is not a crowd sourcing project.

Is the flooring that you're laying in the kitchen the same as in the adjoining room?

No it will be all new flooring, throughout both rooms

Sigh of relief! What kind of remodeling were you thinking? You can re-post your pictures here in the comments.

So I was trying to think of ways to rearrange the cabinets and match a good color to the new floor it will have

But the big cabinet on the left is the pantry. But I HATE it, so I’m thinking I could build a corner pantry where the fridge is, and put the fridge about where the big cabinet it, and then do different cabinetry through the kitchen and of course a stove hood

Is that a pantry with the door to the left of the stove? Are you planning on painting the cabinets?

I do plan on painting but possibly updating them all together if someone could give me a better design

Don’t do gray floors. Or herringbone. That’s your first design mistake. Hire a Kitchen Designer to keep from making more.

I have to say that although I prefer the more natural wood tones of your existing floors, at least the new floors have some warmth to them.

Please take the time to draw out a measured floor plan, including all doors, windows and openings. You'll get lots of ideas for updating. Do you have a budget for doing so?

First thing I thought is to move the stove from where it is to the pantry wall. That would do wonders for the workability of the room!

Auntthelma, I was thinking the same. It's just so far away from the rest of the working and prep area. Then center the fridge with cabinets on either side. Then you would have a drop zone for putting things away in the fridge and pantry.

I actually like the warmth of the floors too but they were not installed correctly, very creaky and most likely 10+ year old laminate, scratched and holes in them, the previous over put vinyl peal and stick tiles over the laminate in the kitchen and then underlayment on top of that then there was glued down Linoleum, so I had to tear up the laminate. I’m not doing herringbone those were just the only pictures I had on hand, I’m confident enough in my experience to completely remodel any part of my house, so thank you all for your helpful suggestions but I just wanted to see if anyone could photoshop me some sort of different layout for the kitchen I will post measurements In a little.

UPDATE*** Sorry this took so long but you know life gets in the way!! Here are updated pictures with the newly installed floor, and a very bad layout rendering. But one thought I had which I wanted to explore would be taking out the ugly wall and really opening up the kitchen to enable us to install an island. Thoughts please! Thank you

Layout

I’m sorry if these are illegible

You've been busy. The floors look nice. Is the wall loadbearing? If you open it up, you're going to have to pull up flooring to add new. I'm no pro, but I would consider pulling the stove and fridge over to the 138" wall to make an L shape kitchen that's very efficient and to fill the other side with reach-in pantry cabinets with rollout drawers for tons of storage.

Another option, which I think would be even better, would be to move just the stove and center the fridge on its current wall, surrounded by storage. You would want to leave 1 side as a regular cabinet for a drop zone for groceries, and make the other side enclosed pantry storage. You may even be able to accomplish that using your existing cabinets, having them painted, and then ordering new doors for just the top cabinets that match the bottoms without the arch. They're full overlay and they look to be in very good shape. You would have to measure all the cabinets out to see how they would fit.

Awesome ideas!! I would have to see a layout or some photoshopping to really get the idea, I don’t know if the wall is load bearing I would have to ask someone. But what do you think about the top cabinets being glass like a window pane, hopefully that would reflect more light and really brighten up the kitchen, also any color ideas for the cabinets? As well as counter tops?

I think you should flip the fridge and the stove/MW with the pantry wall opposite......will give you more room for cooking........and I would spend money flipping them before I invested in flooring.....get the kitchen right; it looks 'odd', but that is not your fault.....just get it right.

Welcome to the Kitchens Forum, Matthew!

You seem to be doing quite a bit.

So, how much of a Kitchen remodel are you planning or at least willing to consider? Replacing cabinets? Re-using existing?

The fact that you're redoing flooring means you need to consider the impact on the cabinets. You say there are 4 layers of flooring, have you checked under the cabinets? If it were me, I'd want to replace the cabinets along with the flooring. The cabinets have to sit at the same height as the flooring, so trying to do the flooring around the existing cabinets is not a good idea, especially if you ever plan to move anything -- you want the flooring to be in the entire space, not piecemeal around existing cabinets.

The existing layout is far from ideal. The fact that the range is in the middle of what might be a busy path is one big issue.

If you just want to rearrange the current cabinets, you will be limited in what you can do. If that's the case, then please give us a list of all cabinets, their sizes, and what sides are finished.

What would be helpful....

Fully-measured layout of the space. The one you posted is a partially measured space, but key measurements are missing. See below for what I've been able to determine based on what you posted and what's missing. The "??" next to a measurement means I'm not certain what you meant. Include trim in window & door/doorway measurements. If something cannot be moved precisely locate it. See sample layout at the very end.

Sketch of the entire floor. This lets us see how the Kitchen relates to the rest of your home and how traffic flows in, around, and through the Kitchen.

Other questions...

• Tell us about you and your family and how you plan to use your Kitchen. All-adults? Empty Nesters? Children (now or in the future)?
• What appliances (& their sizes) do you plan to have?
• Where are you flexible? Can walls/windows/doors/doorways change (move, change size, add, delete)?

The above and more are discussed in the Layout Help FAQ.

• Layout Help FAQ: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5500789/faq-how-do-i-ask-for-layout-help-what-information-should-i-include
• Ice.Water.Stone.Fire, a humorous discussion of Kitchen design: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2699918/looking-for-layout-help-memorize-this-first

Also see...

• Work Zones, What Are They?: https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5500762/faq-kitchen-work-zones-what-are-they
• Aisles Widths, Seating Overhangs, etc.: https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5500771/faq-aisle-widths-walkways-seating-overhangs-work-landing-space-etc
• Storage Planning: https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5500787/faq-how-do-i-plan-for-storage
• New to Kitchens? Read Me First: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5500754/new-to-kitchens-read-me-first

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Here's a basic layout of what you posted. The letters are the various dimensions we need.

A = 138" ??

B = 16"

C =

D =

E =

F =

G =

H =

I = 43.5" ??

J = 96" ??

K =

L = 98.5" ??

M = 28" ??

N =

O =

P = 89.5" ??

Q =

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Sample layout

Oh island makes more sense there but it take some space away from your living Room or dining Room Just don't make it any bigger than the wall cause I don't think that opening is that big

Unfortunately, I don't have the technical skills to do a layout but I would put a cabinet with countertop next to the basement, then the fridge, then the pantry you have on the long wall now.

I would center the stove on the wall where the pantry is, surrounded by cabinets so you have plenty of prep space.

You could measure all your cabinets to see what you could fit where. I like to keep drawer bases on either side of the stove for storing pots and pans.

As far as glass, you could do some with glass but remember that you're going to be storing other things in them that are not so pretty so I wouldn't necessarily suggest doing all glass.

Cabinet color and countertops would depend partly on the wall color. Are you planning on keeping the gray in there?

With a fully-measured layout, we can show you some possibilities as well as rule out things that won't work.