Hi Aletia: couple of questions about your plan (see attached marked up plan): 1. Is the area circled and highlighted in red the end cabinets you’re concerned about seeing from the Family Rm.? 2. Are you sure you want your fridge so far from your main sink - in your old home, did you use the small sink in the island for prep.?

Couldn't you use a stub wall at the end of the cabinets on the fridge side? I'd move the ovens to the end, to provide counter space for landing for the fridge. If someone is at the island seating when you need to open the oven doors that will create a conflict, but how often will that happen?

I think your aisles are adequate, and I like the separate prep and clean-up zones. The prep sink should face the cooktop wall, which won't leave landing space to the right, but you can start with items on the counter under the TV, then move them to the sink.

The shallow pantry is a great use of that bumped in area. Is the corner susan 36"? Will you have a microwave in the oven stack?

Honestly i don't think your kitchen as designed right now is very efficient.

You have the prep sink on the corner which means you'll take food out of the fridge and where do you put it before washing and prepping it?

Your counter overhangs facing the double ovens doesn't really give you enough space to walk around if someone is sitting in those seats and what happens then if you're trying to take food out of the ovens?

Additionally at a counter height island, you need a minimum of 15" of leg room for seating. So without that leg room, those sitting there will be sticking even further out into the aisle.

3'5" is NOT nearly enough room between the island and the sink. Minimum for a ONE PERSON kitchen, is 42". A two person kitchen, meaning more than you working in the kitchen, ideally needs a 48" aisle. I can tell you from experience that having made my new kitchen aisles that wide, it's heaven!

The ovens are not in a good place. Imagine having to cross the aisle with a hot casserole just as kids are barreling in from the entry by the pantries.

If it were me, below is how I'd rearrange your kitchen for better work flow.

Sink is in the same location.

I moved the fridge to the right of the sink and DW. This isn't as critical as getting the ovens out of the path of oncoming traffic so if you feel they'd work better next to the pantry, that will then give you more storage to the right of the DW.

I made the corner cabinet a dead cabinet so instead you could get wider base cabinets which are much more efficient use of storage.

I moved the double ovens to the end of the counter run where the cooktop is. Now it's easy to go from one to the other while cooking

I turned your island so now the prep sink faces the cooktop. And left space on both sides for prep.

I got rid of the seating on the side and made your seating 15" deep on the back

I did uppers only along the cooktop wall.

Thanks all.

@Sharon Brindley Designs, the area you circled in red is the what the KD suggested for "ending" that run of cabinets, with an agnled base and open shelves above. I just don't know if I like it, or it there are really any other otions. For some reason it just doesn't feel like a good transition to the family room part of the room. In our prior house we did use the island sink as the primary prep, so it faced the fridge as we show here in this one. It seemed to work well for us because one of us could be working there while the other was over at the cooktop without getting in each other's way. At the same time, this is a bigger space, which does put the fridge further away than we had before.

@mama goose_gw zn6OH, we're not sure about moving the ovens even further over, your point about landing space is a good one. The double oven setup is a Bosch unit, with Speed Oven on top (so doubles as the microwave) and regular oven below. We had not considered the idea of the stub wall; that might work and create a corner in the family room area where something could go. The corner susan is a 36".

@cpartist, thanks for your detailed thoughts as well. Some really good points. We don't really expect too many people sitting at the island on the oven side - there are just two of us, and the community is a 55+ so won't be kids running around on a regular basis (and we don't have grandkids yet.) The prep sink could certainly move over giving more room on the corner side for things to land. Good point about 15" overhang; we can do that by adjusting the size of the cabinets. We can also shift the island a small amount if we need more than 40-41" we have now between it and the sink. In our prior house remodel we went from about 35" to 40" and it seemed like an expressway for us, and worked well. But we have wiggle room here to do more, especially if we narrow the island a bit. Really appreciate your sketch/rework ideas. Real food for thought.

Would love if anyone has ideas about whether to put cabinets/bookselves around the fireplace - obviously would stick out. If so, should the be the same color as the kitchen cabinets (probably some kind of gray.)

Thanks again!