Floor plan? Dimensions? Something for context?

I would not build a home with a windowless kitchen in the middle of the house, specially a semi-enclosed kitchen. Will the house be one story? If it is and you insist on keeping this layout, then definitely plan on adding a skylight.

If you build a shorter wall adjacent to a space with windows, you can keep the spaces separate but still get some natural light.

Wait, you are building a home from scratch and choosing to put the kitchen in the middle with no outside walls? Why?

If you post a plan of your whole first floor I be there will be some great ideas that people provide for a better layout.

I too loathe an open kitchen!

IMO kitchen with no windows always abad idea and in this case for sure could be btter planned on an outside wall where a window is possible and the venting for a range also better .Post the floor plan here in a comment in jpeg format. If you do not like an open kitchen that still can be properly designed to have natural light .

I have a kitchen with no windows. It's not as horrible as some think. Key is ensuring it's not completely closed off and natural light comes in from elsewhere. It's not what I would have chosen, but it's how the house came so there it is. But if you're building a house, I see no reason to put in a windowless kitchen in the interior of the house.

Can you post the floorplan? I would help if we could see exactly how the kitchen is going to relate to the surrounding spaces. When you said it is going to be open to the dining room that was promising, but then you said the dining room opens to a sunroom. The roof on the sunroom is going to significantly cut down the amount of light getting to the kitchen. While you can have artificial light to compensate, think hard about whether this is going to work for you. If you're a short order cook and don't spend much time in the kitchen maybe it will be fine, but for a lot of people this would be a deal breaker. If you keep it this way I would have white cabinets and a light countertop.

Without of floor plan showing kitchen location and layout as well as knowing your style makes it difficult to give valuable suggestions but here are a few...

A windowless kitchen probably leads the list of lest desirable things in a house. I can’t imagine why someone would deliberately pick such a design if one were planning a dream house.

I am wondering if there are code restrictions on windowless kitchens.......that being said , go down to the city planning department and ask about basics that houses have to have before you start planning and show them your plans.....only takes an hour or two. Plus there are a zillion house plans in every square foot variation that will allow you to see if you have the money to build what you want. And if budget is involved try to see some model homes to see what your dollar can get you. Good luck.

There is no national code requirement for a window in a kitchen. Many row houses or multi unit buildings have windowless kitchens.

But in my urban area, a window is required if there is no externally vented range hood. If there is no window, an externally vented range hood is required.

The no window requirement or the no vent requirement are based upon the age, configuration and size of local housing stock.