In the bedroom section, this might be called an "over bed table" that fits across a queen or king sized bed. Has wheels so it can be at the foot of the bed, or rolled over the bed when the person is sitting for reading or eating in bed. Perhaps someone on Houzz can be more specific. Looks like a good idea!

What shelves are you referring to?

Happy New Year to All - In 2015 without changing the size of our one-story home, we moved walls, furniture, and stuff to create a new master bathroom from two small ones and add a new totally new one, along with upgrading our storage closets. Not an unusual thing to do to a 60s house but we were inspired to keep working. Imagine that! As a result we decided to put "our house on a diet" and now we are cleaning out/giving away much of the stuff we moved for the remodel rather than putting it back where it was. A daunting task at first but we feel good about "the weight" we have lost, and it has made definitely the entire remodeling process a lot more enjoyable. Cheers!!!

1) Expanded (from 54" to 60") aisle. Because you basically now have a U shaped kitchen, this was a good move. I might get 66" aisle but would need to move beer/wine fridge in main kitchen and prefer not to give up that much drawer space. You might want to see if you can nudge it a bit more since it is a U shape. I believe in NY I have 72" and it's still a bit tight but workable. 5' is still a bit tight. Thanks, cpartist! Oh, btw, how do you know I'd bump into someone with 54" aisle? you told me to ask ;) Your welcome and LOL. 2) Created 19" and 27" landing spaces on either side of 36" induction cooktop. This required moving the 30" wall oven below the cooktop and installing speed oven above counter (thanks, again cpartist!) NOOOO!!! You do not want a wall oven below the cooktop. A wall oven opens too low to the ground meaning you'll be squatting down just to look inside. Again, ask me how I know. Instead look into getting a slide in range and not a separate cooktop and oven. 3) Lowered wall cabs at sides of cooktop (thanks, cpartist!) You're welcome. - 15Hx36Wx32D (by DW) - 12Hx36Wx32D (by DW) - 15Hx30Wx26D -- 3 of these to left of fridge - 15Hx27Wx24D on cooking wall - 15HX19Wx24D on cooking wall I'm not following. What do you mean 15" high. I would do a 3 drawer stack mostly. Otherwise where will you be storing things like silverware, utensils for cooking etc? Most of those are a good width except the 19" cabinet. What will be in there? Feedback I tried or considered but decided against: - Closing off the back wall. Ingenious but doesn't work for us. Mainly because we don't experience the problem it was designed to solve -- our current kitchen is broken up by same hallway but the only traffic to/from laundry are by the cooks. Plus we don't want to walk so far to 2nd fridge (and ice dispenser) and other butler's pantry items. As long as it will always be just the two of you then you'll be fine. If you anticipate that changing (for example when kids start to drive) you might want to really rethink it. - Opening peninsula end to make it an island. I don't see the value in encouraging that traffic pattern and wondering if posters assumed the kitchen continued to the other bank of cabinets? To clarify, those cabinets are for family room blankets, a few cookbooks, and the beer/wine fridge. No the advantage of a L shaped layout with an island is that there is never a bottleneck in the corner. Especially with such a narrow U shape like you have. I have a 6' U shape in my NY apartment and while it works for 1 cook, when DH is "helping" we are constantly getting in one another's way and creating a bottle neck. In my house in FL, I have an L shaped perimeter with an island and we are never bumping into one another. One can just easily move to the edge of the island if need be. Another thought. If one of you was at some point temporarily in need of a walker for example, it's so much easier in an L shape with and island to move in and out of the space. The opening on the left side wouldn't have to be wider than 36". - Spice drawers vs. pullout (I actually prefer drawers but my wife likes the pullout... We could easily add a spice organizer to an existing top drawer as her reading prescription gets worse ;) The reason for drawers is it's so much more difficult to see the labels unless she's planning on labeling the tops. I'm personally too lazy to do something like that but YMMV.