When the Prep & Cooking Zones are so far apart like this, a prep sink is usually needed to make the zones work efficiently...sometimes just to function at all! Right now, you have to cross a very wide aisle (> 7 feet) and through a very busy thoroughfare just to empty a pot of boiling water. Not very safe! Nor very functional! The reason NewbieRemodeler's layout works so well is b/c she has the Prep & Cooking Zones together (the prep sink on the peninsula) and her Cooking Zone and range are protected from traffic (again, the peninsula does this). Also, notice how much workspace she has in the right places...around the range and on the peninsula. Your workspace is very spread out and you do have a lot of it, but it's not in the right places. Ideally: Prep Zone...works best when it contains a water source and is next to or across an aisle no more than 48" wide or so from the Cooking Zone. Trash & recycle bins should also be in the Prep Zone. If across from the Cooking Zone, the aisle b/w them should not be a busy aisle (i.e., no through-traffic and very little other kitchen traffic). Cooking Zone...works best when next to/across from the Prep Zone (see Prep Zone). It's also nice to have a water source nearby as well as trash & recycling nearby. Cleanup Zone...works best when separated from the Prep & Cooking Zones. This can be on the opposite side of the sink in a one-sink kitchen from the Prep Zone or it could be in a completely separate location (the latter usually only works well if you have two sinks). Obviously, it also needs a water source and the DW. Right now, you have the Prep & Cooking Zones separated by an aisle more than 7 feet wide...much too far. While having the Prep & Cleanup Zones together isn't bad (see above), in this situation it doesn't really work. Here's one idea that might work. I have other ideas, but I don't have time right now to draw them up...I'll work on it some more later, if you like. [Let me know.] One idea, btw, is to switch the table and kitchen...but that depends on how high off the floor the bay window is as well as how flexible you are with water, etc. Are you open to a banquette? A banquette might solve some problems regardless of the table/kitchen configuration. So, how high off the floor is the bay window? .. [You could reduce the prep sink to an 18" sink base and gain those 6" for either an 18" cabinet on the left or a 21" cabinet on the right.]

Thanks Benjesbride, there is already a pocket door there that we may keep in place, but just widen slightly. The reason is that it can be pulled mostly shut when laundry is running but my two small dogs access that area. A full door instead, with swing will come just short an inch or so of the dryer door. Right now the light switch for the laundry is on that short piece of wall between the pocket and the pantry and the one for the kitchen is on the LR side of the pantry, as well as on the supporting wall of the U where the cooktop is (which will be demolished). We are hoping the water line for the fridge can be brought through the wall after the pocket ends, since obviously nothing can be in the pocket. There should be enough room. Looking at your drawing, the whole pantry could be removed and that area reworked for traffic, and the pantry storage be placed elsewhere. But it doesn't separate the laundry enough from the living spaces. I will have to play with that, there is a bunch of electrical and another support post in that wall on the LR side. I think the support post next to the kitchen is about where you drew it, 5 feet in. So your idea of cabinetry there and widening it out is a good option. The regular size fridge made sense, but I think we both want a more shallow unit after many years of digging stuff out of the depths of our current and past models. But perhaps we could still use a 30" depth counter on that side and put the fridge back where it currently stands. Thanks for your time, it is helping me to have people provide more options and for me talk my way through what would work and what won't!!

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