It sounds like a plan. I would suggest putting the sink on the dishwasher wall so you can rinse/load/clean from one location.

Also - try posting on the kitchen forum. They take their kitchen planning very seriously overthere! And, check out bayareafrancie's kitchen. She did a great job of hiding her DW.

Hi, how tall are your ceilings?

I love the look of your cabinets on the wall by the window, with the smaller uppers. I'd like to have that in my kitchen remodel, but two designers so far haven't seen fit to include them in their designs. :-)

How tall are your long upper cabs and how tall are the small ones?

Thanks in advance!

Have you considered completely redoing you kitchen floor plan so it works better with the stove ref,and dishwasher. You could easily save the doors or reuse them in the pantry so they wouldn,t be lost. I lived in this house for three years with a cabinet layout really close to yours (except my uppers weren,t even wideenough to put a 11 inch plate in) We finally tore the whole thing out and reworked the floor plan and the same space is so much more funtional now. I was able to reuse the solid woodcabinets elsewhere in the house.

Thanks for the responses.
ACC - I thought about the sink on the dishwasher wall, but ruled that out because I want that counter to double as a place for extra platters and such during parties, before moving them to the kitchen or living area to serve. I'll also use it as my laundry folding area. By putting the sink on the short wall to the right of the doorway (behind the stove), I'll be able to load the dishes directly from there to the open dishwasher without even moving a step because the door will be open and the racks pulled out. I posted to the kitchen forum also, thanks for that suggestion. So far, I haven't found bayareafrancie's photos yet.

LaKoala, I love having the small cabinets over the tall ones. They are great for storing hardly used stemware, tea pots, vases, canning jars, etc. I will definately use that same format in the butler's pantry too. I did a rough measurement and the top ones are about 18" long and the long ones are about 36", for an overall height of 54". If you can, I'd make the designer include both rows of cabinets!
Remember, they are working for you.

Madeyna,I'd love to see photos of your new kitchen and how you changed it up. Could you please post here? My upper cabinets won't hold my dinner plates either :( but I resoved that issue by using my grandmothers housier cabinet. I have a set of everyday dishes (12 place settings), a set of fall dishes (4 place settings), a set of clear glass dishes (8 place settings) a set of floral dishes (8 place settings), 16 dessert dishes, a set of china (12 place settings) and fancy serving ware all stuffed neatly into that one piece of furniture! That is one piece that I definately want left in my kitchen, along with the antique stove that my hubby and I rebuilt. Because of wanting to keep those pieces in the room, I'm afraid that limits my ability to rework the workspace. Also, the old stove houses all my baking pans and cake pans, hot pads, cookie sheets and on top my staple grocery items. It doubles as a desert serving area when we have parties and an extra prep center during the other times (I have a big silicone surface I roll out on it to cover over the burner covers).

Thanks a bunch.
Terry

I,ll go look for you thread on the kitchen forum. I see several fixs for you kitchen that would allow you to gain counter and cabinet room but keep the existing cabinets.

Hi Terry, thanks so much for the cabinet measurements and the encouragement to ask the designer for what I want. It is my kitchen after all! :-)