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kitchen layout l shape

5 years ago

My husband and I are building a house. The framing is up and now we have to decide where our appliances will go and the cabinets.

My concern is lack of storage, that it’ll fee too long, and that narrow. I’d like there to be a focal point in the kitchen. Right now I’m nit sure what it’ll be. We’re getting a 6 burner over and 48” refrigerator.

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  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    With a stove that size, your range hood will likely be the focal point or at least could be if you do something decorative with it. Your dimensions look to be quite generous enough for a residential kitchen. I have a kitchen that is a standard 10 feet by 10 feet, and I made the most of storage in my renovation by using all drawer bases where possible and putting an extra shelf in each of the uppers. Your kitchen is significantly larger than this. If you cannot fit everything, then consider editing what you store or finding storage elsewhere for items used only a couple of times per year.

  • PRO
    5 years ago

    Make kitchen smaller, add pantry. I'd want the refrigerator closer to the stove.




  • 5 years ago

    Do you have a pantry? I don’t see it but maybe I’ve missed it. If not, what about moving the fridge towards the range and add a tall pantry cabinet in the end?

  • PRO
    5 years ago

    The focal point of any kitchen should be the cook and the food. Whoever designed this kitchen has sentenced you to 30 years hard labor, tighten up the work triangle.

    Spell check only works so far.

  • 5 years ago

    I agree that you need a pantry. Also, consider flipping the kitchen and dining area. Right now the only access to the deck is in the family room. I’d flip the dining and kitchen and put french doors from the dining room to the deck.

    At my house there isn’t access to the back yard through the kitchen / dining area and it makes me crazy. When we eat outside and have people over it’s a pain in the butt.

  • 5 years ago

    Keeping the window in the current location, since framing is complete, the range hood is the focal point from the DR, and window is the focal point from the LR. Fridge is moved closer to range, and an ROTS pantry is the focal point from the front door. The fridge is still outside the NKBA recommended max distance of 9' between appliances.


    In the plan above, the DW is in the prep/cooking between the fridge and range. I like a separate clean-up zone, so helpers can load or unload the DW, or gather dishes to set the table, without crossing the other work zones. If the window can be changed, to two windows, the clean-up zone could go on the short wall, with a prep sink in the island. Prep triangle is much tighter, but the DW and dish storage is farther form the DR. The range hood is the new focal point from the LR:


    NKBA guidelines

    New to Kitchens? Read me first.

  • 5 years ago

    There certainly could have been better thought to the Family Room placement to allow a more typical layout of Kitchen/Dining/Fam/Outdoor living. But it's done, and backhouse entry to the Kitchen is probably prioritized over coming through a switched Dining. So the easiest switch at this point after rough framing is Living and Office as they are the same 14x14. The Office can reduce to 12x14 to allow more Kitchen workspace. Here I show a broom closet and cabinets, but there are many opportunities in my head for different schemes with this scenario: leaving out the 2nd Office door, adding a coat closet across from the mudroom bench/a closet in the Office, moving the refrigerator over here (if don't mind the traffic through the workzone), pantry cabinets, beverage center, etc etc.

    At the very least, I show the refrigerator slid down in its original location so there is no line of sight from the front door, but maybe to a display cabinet, and also mirroring the front door swing.




  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    A couple of quick atempts to flip the kitchen and dining, the first with one sink, and the second with prep sink option. Both omit the connection between kitchen and office, and would require alterations to framing:


  • 5 years ago

    Thank you for your ideas! We can’t move any rooms or framing around, but I did adjust the “work space” and made a clean up station