Working final details for my galley layout
Hi everyone, I've been on this forum forever (originally under a different user name.) After way too much deliberation on my part, we were finally set to renovate our small galley kitchen last fall. Then, our contractor's firm fell apart, and after a few tense weeks, we got our deposit back and decided to wait till spring. We've been meeting with a contractor that has done a lot of work for close friends, and whom they have found incredibly reliable and reasonably priced. So now the main question left is to finalize the details of our layout.
We have an odd galley, bounded by load-bearing walls on both short ends and on a slab. It functions as a corridor between the front of our house and the much-used living and dining rooms that were originally an addition at the back. We cannot widen or move the kitchen, or just sell the house as one GWer kept advising. We have 2 young but crazy tall boys so space is key.
After a lot of wonderful GW input, we decided to bite the bullet and pay to open up one wall, trench the slab to move the sink and gas range. Most appliances are bought (GE Caf� gas range & hood; KA CD 36" fridge). We also have a corner banquette from Ballard that arrived a month or so ago, pictured on the layout below as cabinets.
This was our plan, which reflects a lot of prior GW commentary. There will be a pocket door just to the right of the refrigerator that allows access to the laundry and utilities. We're not using Ikea, but it's the only software I've mastered after all these years.
SO here are my questions:
1) I know it's okay that the sink isn't centered on the window, but I'd like confirmation from GW anyway. The current KD and the one who worked with the previous contractor both got very agitated when I insisted on shifting the sink further from the range. In fact the layout I've pictured reflects I switch I'm proposing to the KD - he originally put the 21" trash cabinet between the range and sink; I've switched it with a 30" base drawer that he had at the end of the run next to the dw. You will be able to see the sink from the front door (sorry, small close-in metro house!) but you'll never actually look at the entire wall straight on, so I don't think it's a big deal that the sink is not centered.
2) Again, just looking for confirmation: the plan has the fridge recessed on the interior wall next to about 66" of shallow cabinets, almost hutch style. I KNOW this is a huge loss of countertop, but I've convinced myself an extra foot of aisle space is worth it since this gets TONS of traffic. But am I kidding myself? Just by way of comparison, if we left the sink and fridge where they are currently are, we could save some money and headaches, and we'd have something like this (with about 38" between the sink and the opposite counter, as we do now):
3) Whatever we do, we need to figure out what to do with the short interior wall that will be left separating the banquette space from the galley portion of the kitchen. We could theoretically run the cabinets around the corner, but there is a coat closet there that needs space for the door to open, so we'd only be able to use about 30-40." Right now the contractor has proposed just leaving a short "knee" wall adjacent to the bank of 12" deep hutch cabinets. I know there is an awesome galley on here (BrooklynGalley) that did something like this, but I'm very uncertain about how it will look. Any advice?
Fwiw, this is the banquette already in place with a glimpse to the kitchen entry that will be opened up. The angle is basically what you see when you walk in the house.
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