Please help me with our Kitchen Layout. All opinions appreciated

9 years ago

This is my first time posting on the kitchen forum. My husband and I are building a house and I have been posting on the Building a house forum. We now have some preliminary plans drawn up and need some help with layout. Below is a little about us and what we need.

We are building on 28 acres but hope to add an additional 20 acres in the future. We will be farming, and raising a few cows, and chickens. We live in a very rural town and need plenty or room for freezing, and canning food. You will notice on our plan a huge walk in pantry. This space is for housing a large double freezer, possibly an additional refrigerator, pantry, and storage for large kitchen gadgets and serving dishes.

I want tons of windows to enjoy the views. (remember I have tons of storage in my pantry)

I plan on using mostly drawers on the lower cabinets.

I know this is not a very detailed plan for the cabinets, but I am mostly trying to nail down the placement of appliances.

Thank you for your time.

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amoore1205
Original Author
9 years ago
This is a snapshot of the eating porch and vaulted porch off living room.
Kiwigem
9 years ago
I think it looks very workable, though for my cooking style I would want the oven closer to the cooktop.
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bpath
9 years ago
I Love all the windows!

It doesn't look like you have a lot of room for upper cabinets, so will you also have dish storage under the island, in dish drawers or something? I'm imagining making sandwiches, snacks, breakfast. The dishes are probably near the dishwasher, but most of what you need (meat,cheese,milk, lettuce) is way on the other side of the island.

Then when your clear the table, you are walking around the probably-open dishwasher to get to the disposal in the sink. So the DW should probably go on the other side of the sink, with dish drawers in the island across from the range.

You're on a farm, right? You might want a utility sink in the laundry or mud room. ( I miss my old double concrete sink!)
blfenton
9 years ago
Pull-out trash by the prep sink.

Consider where you are going to put all your cooking and baking condiments - oils, spices, vinegars, flours, sugars, etc. If you are doing without uppers, that's fine as long as you have those things handy and don't have to always be walking into the pantry for those items.

Wandering where I wasn't invited - closet in the foyer? Perhaps it isn't shown on what you have posted and is elsewhere. Now I'm just being nosy and looking for the powder room.