Don’t even ask me how much time I burned up thinking about this…a total waste of time considering it will be YEARS before we can afford to remodel our kitchen. But, as I am prone to do, I couldn’t help but day dream about possible layouts…here’s one.
Here’s what I hope the basic wall layout will look like…this simply has one wall removed from what is there now. You can see it sketched on the floor…currently it separates the dining area from a small main floor laundry. We’re crammed into the dining area, so I’d like to remove the wall so we can get a bigger table in there, and relocate the laundry elsewhere in the house. All plumbing and window locations stay the same in this design to control costs. You will notice that in the corner of the dining room I’ve added two tall skinny windows…I have no idea how cost prohibitive that might be, but I thought it looked cool so I put them in.
Here’s the layout after I dropped in some cabinets…moved the refrigerator over a smidg, and added a little bit of an island. The dining area I spoke of is to the left. On the other side of the room, past the refrigerator, is our living room. Oh, and the stove/sink wall is south facing, if that helps.
Some close up views of the various sections.
View of the island…ignore the wierd ‘door’ looking thing on the upper cabinet. From the left I have a 30” base, 15”, 15”, and a 24” base. The 24” base would likely be a 3 drawer unit, while the 30” would be a door/drawer unit, probably with rollout shelves in it. The two 15” would be for trash/recycling.
This is the back of the island. I was thinking about using a couple of wall cabinets as 12” deep bookshelves for the back of the island. Here I’ve got a 24” and a 12”.
So, there it is…I think I’ll post these over at Ikeafans.com too and see if I can get a little bit of feedback on this particular design. One final image facing southeast with shadows turned on to show the effect of those corner windows.
