Much as I can appreciate the visual/ pretty aspect of 3D renderings, if you truly want help from the many excellent pros that contribute their time to answering dilemma questions, you need to do your bit and take time and effort to submit a fully scaled measurement of the actual space with all that affects the space, windows , doors, plumbing , etc and ALSO, how the space relates to other rooms in the home.

thanks! I just added fully scaled measuremnet and a scaled picture of the whole floor. Is there a way to draw on graph paper online? I just took a photo of my graph paper design and it's not as clear as the one posted in the read this for new users. Thanks

Hi Herb, I have been searching for online remote kitchen designers without a lot of success. Houzz wants to match me up with local pros. I found Mark Tobin and Liz Blanco on youtube and sent them queries. Any ideas of how to search or for specific design pros?

@herbflavor Hi Herb, I have been searching for online remote kitchen designers without a lot of success. Houzz wants to match me up with local pros. I found Mark Tobin and Liz Blanco on youtube and sent them queries. Any ideas of how to search or for specific design pros?

start a post "help I need an online kitchen designer" it doesnt need to be local...you want plan/design input... ...you'll execute the plan by yourselves and w local help so I dont know why they'd stay in the local loop w response. You might call to SCHERRS as they at least review plans sometimes refine / suggest w their kitchen component production and sales.....they may have a list of people who get more involved w designing remotely and lots of detail work still in planning stages. I think youd be a good candidate for a remote style designer as you have earmarked quite a few things .....goals/ questions/ concerns / plans under review etc. Ikea may just be too bare bones for your scope. Id like to see your plan evolve a little more before you pull the trigger.

The fridge seems too close to the peninsula to access freely.

@tracefloyd do you think 4' is too c

lose to the peninsula to open the frig door? Thanks!

Sorry not a pro so it's hard for me to tell....just commenting on what I can make out from the plans.

We redid our kitchen and ended up with our fridge a little too close to the island and had to reverse the door swing on it but it still is tight. So I am a bit sensitive to the issue lol.

Tried to have a better look, but just can't read your dimensions.

A big no from me for that corner appliance garage. Not a fan of the ref being to the left of the wall oven/micro. The wall cabinets look haphazard.

Can you post better dimensions? Just draw it out and write the inches - large.

When you say the mechanicals have been approved, does that mean you can't move things around?

Love the idea of your colors !!

Hi Debbi, Thanks so much for your comment. I am going to now upload the same drawing with bigger text. we can't move the sink. electricity could be moved. the kitchen is not sheet rocked yet.

I played around with your design - still can't really read the dimensions so this is my best guess. There are a couple of areas you need to think about. The walkway between the ref and the peninsula. The pantry could go to the end of the run which would help but a lot of times we try to keep the w/o and ref separate ( you can see all sorts of comments about someone flinging open the ref door when the oven is open and dinging the door ) . The other thing that needs to be considered is how far down the peninsula goes. You need to leave adequate space to walk through to the living room and the possibility of expanding the table for large gatherings. This plan does not give you that. You will be able to fit a 6ft table.

Hope this helps to give you some ideas! Make sure whoever you are working with puts in the WHOLE room and puts a table in place ( in a size that you need ) since it is a critical walkway.

Good luck!

So, in order to have a spice pull-out by the dishwasher, you're throwing away the corner?

Threw together an intial layout, let me know what you would change.

I need a to scale floor plan of the empty space done on graph paper show plumbing if can't be moved and post her ein a comment in jpeg format. Show every window , doorway where those lead DO NOT start anothe rpost . I cannot read even one meausrement so I hve no idea how everyone else is asnswering. Appliance garages are just plain silly . IMO a kitchen is first and foremost an operating space where things used all the time are accessible not hidden. If you want real help you do start with what you won't do keep an open mind so you get the best info from pros here .

@Rabbitt Design May I ask what you use to do your renderings? It looks awesome!

I'm just plain Jane 2020 renders.

Thanks!

@Debbi Washburn whole thing was recorded here:

@Patricia Colwell Consulting Chief Architect can scale a drawing based on one dimension, which I could read the largest dimension in the screenshot, so I should be within 1%

@Rabbitt Design Thanks for showing that. We are designing with 2020 so the rendering is not as good unless you really take tons of time to finesse it. One of these days I'll try to make them better!

Jeez, I find Ikea.com's kitchen design tool to be terrible. It won't let me edit my layout. It won't let me add a window or doorway after I click the "Next" button. You can't go back and fix anything. I don't understand how anyone uses this POS.