EDIT: Basement door is 3ft across not 60”

THIS is why I wish things could be deleted on here. Basement door actually 68” across. I was looking at the wrong pics. Blah sorry.

And your fridge is how many steps from the sink? You'd need an alternate prep sink at the other end of the room to prevent schlepping food all the way across the room to prep under water. There's a logical layout that involves Ice (fridge and pantry - places where you store food) Water (sink - where you wash foods) Stone (where you chop and prep) Fire (range/cooktop/ovens - where you cook food.) That's the route you take through the meal preparation for your household. Those elements need to fall into the work pattern. Put the fridge where the range is in #2 and remove the uppers left of the window so light coming through that window can flow into your space. Put the range right of the basement door. If you've never considered induction, you should. A cooktop could go right of the basement door and a wall oven with micro could go where your plans show the fridge. Micro near dining will be handy and will keep snackers out of your work area when they want to make popcorn. Use the end of the space that's past the beam for a breakfast area and a full wall of pullout pantries (with or without wall ovens.) Use more drawers, rather than shelves behind doors to gain additional accessible space. You'll thank me later.

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I do appreciate the response, but this is why I qualified that I was just looking for feedback on range placement. I am aware we are “breaking the rules” with sink so far from fridge. Not trying to be difficult or not open to feedback, but I have my reasons on that. And prep sink unfortunately not in budget. Neither is separate wall oven.
But interesting thoughts on the range being to left of basement door! The fridge is there now and I HATE how it sticks out, but a range wouldn’t stick out, so definitely a thought...
thanks!

I think I said "right" of the basement door for the range.

I wasn’t sure what perspective you were using. If looking at basement door, the right is a walkway so that won’t work. I assumed you meant left, when looking at the door. Apologies

I was looking from above on your floorplan, so right (on the sink side of the room. I basically see everything "east" of the beam as the working kitchen and everything "west" of the beam as a breakfast area and pantries.

Option 1. Someone I know just installed option 2 with the hood offset where a beam was passing through. It did not look good, at all.

Option 2. Option 1 would work if you took away the upper cabinet that’s on the right-hand side of the beam, replacing it with a window to match the other window.

Consider a counter depth refrigerator, that way you can keep it close to the sink. It will result in a huge difference.

I'd probably center the range and hood between beam and window. I'd probably place smaller cab right of range so not to block light from single window[or open shelves]. I'd move fridge to the right with counter on left of fridge as a drop zone will be appreciated in that spot.

I was thinking almost the same thing as herbflavor (and working on a plan):

Thank you all! The problem we have right now is that all of our kitchen is to the right of the beam. It’s just too small and cramped. We’ve lived with it for 5 years. We need more storage, but we also need a long run for a prep area, since we can’t get an island in here. So I know the layout isn’t ideal, but it gives us those two things.
Thank you @mama_goose and all!!

A pullout by the range for utensils is a great idea.

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Pullouts and drawers instead of shelves, will double your accessible storage!

Thanks again. Love the ideas you’ve all presented. This weekend will be spent discussing many of the ideas proposed here to my husband. Thanks to my Houzz community! :)

Have you considered moving the refrigerator closer to the beam and putting in a drywall pantry b/w the door on the left and the refrigerator? It would significantly add to your available storage and help make your refrigerator look more "built-in" (and higher end).

[Drywall pantry -- ~27"D reach-in pantry that has drywall walls and floor-to-ceiling 12"D shelves. Not pantry cabinets as they're less efficient and provide quite a bit less storage.]

I like option #1 because of the beam.

I am fine with option 1 also. Once your new kitchen is installed, you will not be looking up at the ceiling. Skipping the details, but we have a funky place in our kitchen near ceiling height I initially thought would drive me crazy. I never notice it and no one who has been in the kitchen has ever mentioned or asked about it. And I think you will appreciate the open space between range and window.

Where is your hood exhaust duct located? We have had a number of posts on this forum with people not realizing their range placement was not directly under where the the exhaust duct is. That means an additional elbow is required for the duct, and depending on the type of hood, an awkward issue as to how that elbow looks in the kitchen or whether it can be hidden. Also, the more turns your exhaust duct makes, the noisier it will be.

@ Shannon_WI It’s not ducted so thankfully that doesn’t need to be a consideration! (Electric range)