Hi all! I appreciate anyone willing to read about my kitchen layout whoas and offer any feedback.

I live in a small home built in the 1970's with a sunroom addition off of the kitchen/dining area. The sunroom is cute and quirky and we like it but the transition between the two spaces has made it difficult to figure out a suitable kitchen layout. The sunroom opening is basically framed by a beam on the top and little walls on the side, so it makes it hard to have the kitchen flow into the space. Plus the tongue and groove ceiling is sloped, there are 2 doors and there are windows all around so we can't put any appliances in. Currently, I have an awkward L-shaped island that bridges the two rooms in a weird way, but gives me plenty of counter space. The biggest thing is the sink is on the opposite side of the island from the kitchen! Super annoying. I walk around the island in circles 500 times a day. We currently have a small dining table with benches pushed against the wall adjacent to the kitchen area and a little loveseat and another countertop in the sunroom.

I will post pictures of the layouts in the comments.

Our first design is a U-shaped kitchen in one corner of the space. It creates a good workflow, but it limits counter and cabinet space and is kind of boring IMO. It doesn't do anything to bring the two spaces together and I would also have to walk around the kitchen to go out to the the left side patio, which is where we have a seating area and the door to the garage (laundry/extra kitchen storage, etc). Also, we would have to turn the shoe/broom closet into a pantry, which would be hard but doable. We also thought about making the peninsula an island (so access to door was better) but I think would give me even less counter space, and we'd have to push it farther into the walkways.

My second outside of the box idea comes with some big pitfalls but I think its the most creative use of both spaces. The most major cons are that the fridge is about 15 feet from the sink, and the sink would be facing a wall instead of in the island, but I think the only way I would be ok with this layout is if the island were more like a large, counter-height butcher block table that did double duty as workspace and kitchen table, so a sink in the island would defeat the purpose. I think we could manage to fit a 7'x4' (ish) island/table.

Alternatively, we could make it an actual island with a sink and barstools on one side and bring the fridge over to that side of the kitchen. We would have to give up either a pantry (well the shoe/broom closet would become a pantry) or a kitchen table, being as though the island can't double as a table.

Does this make sense to anyone? I am likely waaaay over-thinking it, but I really want to love my kitchen and we have so many odd limitations that I'm just trying to think of every possibly option!

Thanks in advance!