Since you already posted this on your other thread, please delete this one - the history is important for those wanting to comment, and two identical threads is confusing.

@AnnKH, since you found both posts, but haven’t provided any constructive input, I’d honestly like to hear what you think about our remodel. Sorry if you’re triggered that I started a new thread to gain new perspectives.

One thing I’m seeing is a common misuse of the waterfall edge. Please don’t feel bad about this, and keep it if you want it, but you only see the waterfall if you are standing in front of one of the two refrigerators. From every other vantage point you’re looking at the back of it, which is much less attractive and makes the overhang feel hemmed in..

Speaking of the refrigerator set-up, it looks like one is a freezer. You are not going to love having them in separate locations, it’s really inefficient.

Other items: this may be personal preference but I don’t like corner sinks so I straightened it out. I also moved the door to the laundry room. You have plenty of other options for the location of your wine fridge. I hope this is helpful.

Use one fridge . get a large one if you need to. put a freezer in the utility room . place your kitchen sink along a wall but not in corner. And once the freezer is off the kitchen wall place cooking appliances namely oven and mwave on one of the kitchen walls not in the entertainment bar area.

Separating the fridge and freezer will be very annoying to use. I don’t know whether the plan or elevation is more accurate, but the elevation shows a lot of tiny, inefficient drawers and doors.

The tiny uppers above the windows are useless for storage, busy-looking and will make the ceiling feel shorter. You’ve designed it so the island isn’t prep space but with very short contiguous counter runs. The laundry room door needs to move past the end of the island. Most people hate corner sinks. I still don’t understand designing the space so that your only entertaining seating is at the island, which is in a configuration that prevents the people sitting at it from conversing with each other.

Like:

- The big windows -- wonderful feature. Do consider your window coverings -- those big windows'll be wonderful in the daytime, but after dark they'll become big black empty boxes.

- Cabinets to the ceiling -- always the right choice. Looks calm and finished.

- The washer/dryer are nicely placed against an exterior wall.

Dislike:

- The marble countertop, which leans traditional, while the cabinets are more mid-century modern -- they're not friends -- and cabinet fronts in this style tend towards wood-tones; white is unexpected.

- That eating countertop /overhang needs support.

- You're over-doing the seating -- people in the center seats won't be able to easily access the stools, so they'll not be used. Sweeping around all those chair legs will be frustrating. Your whole family doesn't want to eat Waffle-House style -- downsize to just a couple stools for yourself while you're cooking or 1-2 people sitting /talking to you. Plus you have the small table literally within reach.

- Solid no to bringing in light blue.

- The white and blue seem to be tossed around rather haphazardly. Have you heard of the 60-30-10 balance? Color is not my greatest strength, but I think what I dislike is that your three colors (white, blue, brown) are basically equal in proportion. Ideally you'd have 60% one color, 30% a second color, 10% an accent color. Look this up /view examples, and you'll see that this division works.

- I think you've over-done the glass-front cabinets -- especially over the big windows by the sink. I'd consider an open shelf for display over the sink. I'd go with solid cabinet fronts on either the main cabinets OR the small uppers.

- The L-shaped island creates a lot of empty space in the middle of the kitchen. This is wasteful and allows for a lot of space for dribbling /spills as you walk between the two cabinet runs. I'd rather see a simple straight island placed closer to the L-cabinet run against the wall.

- The oversized cooktop -- who really needs six burners? It's a space-waster and a storage-stealer. It adds the need for an oversized range hood. And for no purpose.

Questions:

- Is that a pocket door between the kitchen and the laundry? Good -- but do consider that you can't add coat hooks by the back door.

- Where's your trash can? Your recycling?

- What's your pathway from the car to the refrigerator and pantry? Pathway to the outside trash can?

- Where are your spices?

- Where is your stand mixer?

- Where is your fire extinguisher?

- Where are you storing glassware and silverware? Those are the two things that're always a pain to put away -- you want them both to be near the dishwasher, and you want the glasses to be between the dishwasher and the refrigerator.

One thing I’m seeing is a common misuse of the waterfall edge.

Agree. It brings neither beauty nor function to the space. If you love this look, it should be placed so it's viewable from the rest of the house -- not from the kitchen's work area.
Speaking of the refrigerator set-up, it looks like one is a freezer.

I'd keep the refrigerator in the kitchen and move the freezer to the laundry room.

I like the sketch EAM44 drew because it allows you to walk from the laundry room to an open pathway; the original image has you running straight into the island. It also straightens out that L-shaped cabinet area -- corner areas are always more expensive /less efficient, so that smaller back run will give you more usable, functional storage than the original idea.
I don’t like corner sinks
I'm ambivalent about corner sinks, but IF you're going with one, you've laid it out right: You have a buffer cabinet between the sink and the dishwasher, and you have those huge windows.

Consider that a corner sink creates a cave underneath, so definitely place a large Lazy Susan at the back + add lighting INSIDE that cabinet. Corner sinks can work, but the details must be right!

busy-looking

Busy -- yes, I was searching for a word or phrase, and this is it. The eye needs space to rest.

I haven't read through the other thread, but since you said that you want people to start here and comment on this design for new perspectives that's what I'm doing.

I prefer Eam's design to the one with the split fridge and freezer.

I'm not a fan of the island shape or placement.

• With people seated at the island, your walkway from the right is cramped, especially if someone is using the microwave (see yellow path below, and green line for pinch point)
• Your main prep space, between the sink and cooktop, is limited.
• Where will you put a trash pullout that's handy for both prep and clean up?

If it were my kitchen, I'd consider:

• A rectangular island, deeper than the one you show, with seating along the back side only.
• I'd want it close enough to the range wall and sink so that it could be used for prep space. This would also give you a more clear walkway behind the island seating.
• I'd consider a trash pullout in the island opening either toward the sink run or the range run, to be handy for both cleanup and prep. Either direction will impinge on aisle space in one aisle or the other, but I don't see a way around that. I'd make the aisle between fridge and island wider.
• I understand that your skylight might be driving your island placement decision, but your current placement makes the island space less useful IMO. In addition, I'd prefer pendants or other lighting above the island rather than the skylight, because nighttime.

Mockup

The layout would be much more useable if it had all the key measurements on it. None of the really useful measurements are included. We can guess, but guesses are rarely correct. Could you please repost with a fully-measured layout? the following is from the Featured Answer of the "New to Kitchens? Read Me First!" thread. [https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5972404/new-to-kitchens-read-me-first-2020-interim]

Please post a fully-measured layout of the space under consideration and a sketch of the entire floor. Both can be either hand-drawn, computer generated, or drawn up with computer/app tools.

By "fully-measured", we mean a layout with the widths of each wall/window/door/doorway and the distances between each wall/window/door/doorway labeled. See a sample below. If something cannot be moved or changed, label it precisely on your layout (see post in sample) and tell us why it cannot be moved/changed -- we may have some ideas for you.

The sketch of the entire floor lets us see how the Kitchen relates to the rest of the home. It doesn't have to be to-scale, but it should accurately show how the rooms relate to each other and should include all interior & exterior doors. In addition, it will help us see how traffic flows in, around, and through the Kitchen. Label the front entry and family entry. The family entry is usually a garage or side entry, but it might not be. It's helpful to know which door you use to bring in groceries.

Regardless of how you draw it up (by hand, computer, etc.), please be sure all measurements are labeled. (Note: Computer generated layouts often lack key measurements and, sometimes, measure to/from things like the middle of a wall or the middle of a window. Neither are useful. Measure each item and the distances between each item.)

Other questions...

• Tell us about you and your family and how you plan to use your Kitchen. All-adults? Empty Nesters? Children (now or in the future)?
• What appliances (& their sizes) do you plan to have?
• Where are you flexible? Can walls/windows/doors/doorways change (move, change size, add, delete)?
• Do you have a basement under the Kitchen or are you on a slab?