out of the 4 I'd pick A. I do most of the cooking at home and I have to have the Fridge, Sink and Stove close by. Your other 3 options has at least 1 of the 3 at the other end of the kitchen making food prep and cooking a PIA.

We have a galley and would like it to be open concept as every time we host, the kitchen is the place where everyone congregates. Galley's aren't meant for that.

D looks good. The main challenge will be that your stove is far away from both your sink and your fridge. If you cook a lot, that might be a pian. Otherwise, I think it makes good use of your space.

I'd pick B or D, mainly bc I need counter space to prep meal prior to cook on the stove.

are you going to use IKEA to build your kitchen?

edit - I'd pick B, bc the sink is close by.

and the kitchen event is currently on.

can you knock down any walls///make hole to open it up?

Yup, that kitchen seems pretty small.

can you take out the bottom walls so its open to your hallway and play from there?

I like the last sketch as well. Everyone eventually crowds around the kitchen, it never fails.

Can you do a quick sketch of how the bottom hallway and living room connect to the kitchen? So I guess just add in the rest of the main floor so I have better idea for flow.

I have an idea that may work.

better yet.

snap a pic of your current kitchen so we have a better visual of the current layout with the walls.

Better yet, sell the house and move to Durham so you can have a normal size kitchen

I don’t like the whole house to be exposed from the front door, just a personal preference.

this is why the seating area (lack thereof) is a big issue for me.

Where do you eat your meals now, in your dining room? Do you want a "breakfast area" ie an area for a kitchen table?

i'd swap those two counter surfaces on either side of the range. you'd want the larger one next to the fridge for when you'll grabbing a whole bunch of stuff out.

how much space is on either side of that peninsula? might be better to just move those cabinets north and south with the open space in the middle?

Because the kitchen is a mess right now, we eat on that wooden dining room table that c2k posted. I don’t like it, would rather eat in the kitchen like we used to. The left side of the kitchen had a round table with 4 chairs before and that was the main eating area all the time.



I agree on swapping the counters around range, but for safety you need minimum 15” I think on either side, the piece between range and fridge now is 10”. Unless I shorten the other 30” to a 24” I can’t swap them out.

I see what you are saying on rearranging the cabinets north and south, that will make it way too tight for a seating area.

Here is my attempt at sketching the peninsula that would potentially go on the left side of the kitchen:

After spending way too much time on ikea's kitchen builder and trying out layouts, I would go with the last route. It makes the best sense for what your looking to accomplish.

Try this.

Do you really need a formal dining room? It's a room that we hardly ever use and with the attached layout, you should be able to get a decent sized table in the kitchen that can seat 8 ppl.

I don't think I would make some built in seating honestly I would prefer none or just a table.

No wonder she is featured on CTV and HGTV all the time

Risky, do you bring inspector after to bless all the shit you do?


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I am not big on the microwave over range look at all, reminds of me of peasantry. We don't have a microwave anyway, so it's not an issue. Keeping everything super simple and practical here, as you can see it's a small kitchen and practicality and space use are number one priorities.

Oh.. I thought you were going to do it like Rollerboy's renders.
So how are you going to do the range hood?

I went this route:


No cabinets above the range. Pretty much the same range hood too with a bit different backsplash.

That cabinet above the range hood is pretty useless. Too small, too high to be really useful and you usually end up running a went tube through it anyway.

Well look who decided to show his face in the Ontario forum

In for more pics. How long since you first started to tear it out? How was the wife through the process?

I'm currently house shopping and she's wanting turn key... argh.

I put a small TV inside even though I was really reluctant about it, I wanted a TV to watch my surveilance system from that wasn't the main one