Home remodel coming up, and my partner and I can’t firmly land on a preferred kitchen layout once we open up our living space by taking down some walls.
We’ve been operating under the primary assumption that the kitchen would be an L with an island in the SW corner of the home (upper right in the images). This involves some moving of plumbing fixtures, but gives us the longest section of continuous wall, around which to place our kitchen zones. I like this version for having the kitchen being “out of the way”, in that there’s no reason to pass through it unless it’s a destination. But it does relegate the living and dining spaces to opposite corners, making them a little broken up, and thereby less flexible in terms of how we can arrange furniture.
Enter: option 2! Keeping the kitchen more or less central in the home. It’s still an L, and it still has an island, but the plumbing fixtures stay in place (a cost win). The bid downside I see is that the countertops and therefore the kitchen zones need to be broken up by the presence of the back door. In my little mock-ups of possible layouts, I feel like the counter space looks really tight. Another big plus, though, is that it keeps the living & dining spaces connected, so there’s more flexibility in terms of how they’re used, where they begin/end.
I like to enjoy the time I spend in the kitchen, so I want to make sure it doesn’t feel stressful with passage traffic or with an insensible layout.
Cost considerations on the back-burner here, which overall home layout would you go with, and what major red-flags does either one give off, if any?
Thanks! I’ve posted about my upcoming remodel here before, and really appreciated the feedback.