For help: Post a floorplan, with window and doorways noted, and include accurate (to scale) measurements. Also, a few pics, if you have any.

We need a to scale floor plan of both reas in one plan. use graph paper show every window , doorways where those lead . Every meausurement clerly marked post here in jpeg format in a comment DO NOT start another post.Are you planning on a complete redo with new cabinets etc?

Certainly corner sinks exist. You can find pictures of them with google searches.

What you want as a kitchen workspace is really highly personal and has to begin with your needs but also mood. For myself, I'd probably swap the position of the sink and dishwasher, and (since I never need a lot of cabinet space, remove the upper cabinets, probably all the way down to the fridge. I'd want a pretty hood over the range. I'd be looking to see if maybe I could get a pantry at the far end of the room.

I love banquettes but if you don't want window seating, I'm not sure what you are envisioining. I wouldn't want peninsula seating, so I'd think I'd want to keep that counter space free for food serving and after-meal clean up. I'd probably change the under-counter area facing the window to be shelves holding dishes and such. And then I would have as big a table as I could, not built-in.

I see the added photo and it's pretty snazzy. Seating six seems sub-optimal in that photo. 5 looks like everybody has enough room.

You're jumping the gun -- live it in a while before doing anything to see what you really want or need to change once you're in there a while. I think it's quite a nice kitchen. Just needs a few minor fixes, not a major overhaul. Namely, backsplash, hood fan, new wall paint and hardware, and stainless appliances. I could work quite happily in there, what will all that spaciousness and ample storage space and nice flooring!

BTW: The green wall paint is only accentuating the orange-ness of the wood. Pick something in the cream family that harmonizes with the floor and I think you may find yourself liking the wood after all.

I would not change the footprint. It’s very similar to mine, and it’s a very efficient workspace. You’ll easily fit 2 people fixing food or cleaning up after dinner. Or the kids can pop in and grab something out of the fridge and they won’t get in your way. Does the door hide a pantry?

I can see wanting the sink closer to the stove, but the short arms of the U make that pretty hard to accomplish. You could do a corner sink, but you'd lose the cabinet above and still be crowded to put in a dishwasher on that side. In fact, the turn from sink to stove is just a step!

For sure, wall ovens would kill that corner and reduce your best counter space radically. There are a lot of ways to make things worse here.

Another vote for living there at least a year before doing anything as expensive as a complete redo. It's a quite nice kitchen in many ways, and how you imagine you'll use the space may turn out to differ from what actually happens -- kids may do homework on their laptops elsewhere in the house, you might love the current table area, or hate a different aspect of the layout, or find that you cook differently in a new space. Let yourself catch your breath and get settled, and you'll probably surface with a better view of how this kitchen does or doesn't serve your needs, and/or what other projects might be more important.

Yet another vote for living in it awhile before spending the kind of money it's going to take to accomplish what you are proposing. Moving/replacing the peninsula means replacing the floor. Buying and installing new cabinets means a new countertop and backsplash, too, and is big bucks, period. The current kitchen looks okay and functional and you'll have a better idea of what's needed with time. Agree that changing the wall color would help de-emphasize orange aspect of the wood, since that's an issue for you, and is relatively cheaply and easily done.

It's free to try it out and see what you do and don't like about it.

(In other words, live with it a while so you can be sure the layout is actually bad.)

I hope everybody remembers this thread and photos the next time someone comes asking what color to paint their kitchen walls when they have honey oak cabinets and people start saying "green".