I’ve a gathering scheduled with the contractor in seven days to debate our kitchen addition, and I really feel like I’m additional away from making a choice now than I used to be final Friday. I’ve provide you with two very totally different kitchen layouts, and to be fairly trustworthy, I like them each. I feel I’d be fairly proud of both one. One is far smaller than the opposite. One is an enormous rectangle, whereas the opposite is an extended galley kitchen. One solely extends to the again of the present kitchen, whereas the opposite extends to the again of the present kitchen and music room. And each of them have professionals and cons. So let me present you these two very totally different kitchen concepts.
The Smaller Galley Kitchen
This was my authentic concept that I shared final Friday once I shared our general plan for the home now that we’ve cancelled the large addition. Principally, this kitchen could be an extended galley kitchen added to the again wall of our current kitchen. The prevailing kitchen will turn out to be a eating room.
This kitchen is roughly 10′ x 20′, so 200 sq. ft. Right here’s the final flooring plan of simply the kitchen offered by the IKEA kitchen planner. When you flip this picture 90 levels to the proper, you’ll have the proper place to overlay onto the home flooring plan above.
So on the kitchen flooring plan drawing above, the cased opening on the proper results in the eating room (i.e., present kitchen). The doorway on the wall to the proper of that results in the laundry room (i.e., the present pantry). And the door on the left wall leads exterior to the deck. That door can also be very near the top of the wheelchair ramp from the carport, so I’d a walkway of some kind from the wheelchair ramp to the again door of the kitchen.
So with these explanations, right here’s yet one more have a look at the general flooring plan and the format of the kitchen. On this one, I simply copied and pasted the IKEA kitchen planner flooring plan onto my home flooring plan.
Listed here are some screenshots from IKEA’s kitchen planner of this format. The sink could be on a wall of home windows that appears out to the deck.
The doorway on the finish of the kitchen that leads exterior would have glass in it in order that it might let in some gentle. I’d most likely use a 9-lite door like we’ve got in our toilet, and like I even have on the aspect door of the studio.
I don’t have all the cupboard particulars labored out (i.e., what number of drawers I need in every cupboards, and what sizes of drawers I need the place). I can work out these particulars later. However I do envision having the tall pantry cupboards with pull-out drawers on the outside door finish of the kitchen.
Right here’s a view of the vary wall, which is the wall on the proper aspect if you stroll into the kitchen from the eating room. The door on the proper would result in the laundry room.
And the trying again the opposite route, that is the cased opening to the eating room. I positively need a cased opening as a substitute of getting it utterly open to maintain issues per the remainder of the home.
I put the fridge simply contained in the kitchen for simple entry.
Right here’s just a little bit of a better sight angle of the sink wall with the home windows.
And yet one more larger view trying in the direction of the outside door, which, once more, can have glass to let gentle in.
And listed below are the 2 2D drawings of every wall offered by the IKEA kitchen planner. First up, right here’s the sink wall with the home windows.
And right here’s the vary wall with the laundry room door on the proper aspect.
And now right here’s the second risk…
The Bigger Rectangle Kitchen
This kitchen is 21′ by 13′, so 273 sq. ft. This kitchen extends to the again of the eating room (i.e., present kitchen) AND the music room. On our flooring plan, it seems like this…
And right here’s the ground plan of simply the kitchen from the IKEA kitchen planner.
Clearly, this kitchen is greater, so it permits for fairly a bit extra storage. Possibly that’s good, or perhaps that might simply temp me to build up stuff I don’t really want. I don’t know. However it’s a far more open plan. Our present sunroom extends again 13 ft, so this kitchen could be the identical. That helps me to get a good suggestion of what this kitchen would really feel like.
So right here’s a go searching. You might need to refer again to the ground plan above to get your bearings. From this view, the cased opening on the left goes to the eating room, and the cased opening to the proper of the fridge goes to the music room.
On this wall there are two doorways. The one on the proper is the laundry room, and the one on the left is an exterior door that results in the carport wheelchair ramp. That door would have glass to let gentle in.
And naturally, I put home windows on the sink wall. Regardless of which design I am going with, I’ll have plenty of daylight. This design permits me far more room for the tall pantry cupboards with pullouts, which I placed on both finish of the sink wall. I’d additionally use higher cupboards to create a shallow storage cupboard unit on the wall between the 2 doorways, similar to I did in my studio with the paint swatch cupboard.
And naturally, I needed to make this wall symmetrical.
After which right here’s the opposite finish of the sink wall, with extra tall storage and the outside door that leads out to the deck.
And at last, the vary is on the wall to the left when coming into the kitchen from the music room.
Right here’s the kitchen flooring plan from the IKEA kitchen planner.
Right here’s the 2D drawing of the fridge wall with the cased opening to the eating room on the left, and the cased opening to the music room on the proper.
That is the vary wall with the outside door to the deck, which might have glass to let gentle in.
And at last, that is the drawing of the sink wall with the home windows and tall storage on the ends. Once more, I haven’t thought by means of each element of what number of drawers I need, and what dimension drawers I need the place, so pay no consideration to these particulars proper now.
Earlier than I even begin fascinated with these particulars, I simply have to decide on which kitchen format I need. I have to have a choice earlier than assembly with the contractor subsequent Tuesday. So it’s both a smaller 200 sq. foot galley kitchen, or a bigger 273 sq. foot open rectangular kitchen. There are issues that I like about every one, and issues that I don’t love about every one. When you had been in my footwear, which one would you select?
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