I don't think a door into the dining room is going to be the best - think of the shopping! Have the door swing into the utility room from the kitchen on a left hand hinge so it is then opening onto those cupboards (or whatever you've drawn in the top left corner of the utility room) and the outside door just rehung so it's a left hand hinge. You could lose a little bit of room from it and get a tiny bit more kitchen space. You are going to need space between the fridge and the counter so that the fridge door opens properly (I can't see that in your plans, but it might just be me). And jprzym utility rooms are great (although I recently heard someone refer to them as "futility rooms"). We use ours for most of what Justin said, plus as a pantry and for storage of kitchen equipment we don't use all the time.

Hi Joe, We don't do any island specific cooker hoods, however we do have a 60cm integrated which would need to be boxed in. Here's the details in case this is of any help... You can see it on our website here: https://www.fisherpaykel.com/uk/kitchen/cooking-appliances/cooker-hoods/60cm-built-in-integrated-cookerhood.HP60IHCB3.html I have also photographed the 90cm one we have in our showroom to show you how we have used one of our integrated cooker hoods. Good luck with your renovation! :)

Sorry Mat not sure if I follow. Are you having storage put in by the door? There is no storage labelled on your plans. If so, then visually speaking, the room starts from where the floor starts not from where the wall behind the cabinets starts. So if you have the same distance from both sides i.e. from right wall and from the left cabinet, it will still look symmetrical. Do you see how the room starts from the door of the cabinet and not from the splash back behind the sink? Here the column between the doors looks the same size as the wall next to the cabinets, whereas in reality the wall is at least 60cm wider. Again here the door appears to be in the centre of the room but in reality the wall on the left hand side is much wider because it carries on behind the cabinets. The designer has cleverly placed a T.V. there to stop the eye from noticing the rest of the wall. The same effect can be achieved with floor to ceiling cabinets. Was that what you were asking about or have I gone way off?

I think the layout needs improving anyway. The stove is very close to the corner, so I'd definitely want that moved more towards the right. Which means you'd have to have a narrow cabinet to the right of the stove. If it was my kitchen and wanted to do it on a budget, I'd check out Ikea or DIY kitchens. I'd probably go for tall cabinets along the wall across from the window. In those tall cabinets an integrated fridge freezer, microwave/oven and loads of storage. You could then lose the upper cabinets. I'd also want corner cabinets with clever pull out storage and drawers wherever possible. If you really, really, really want a breakfast bar, you could then have stools instead of a cabinet under the countertop, where the microwave and freezer/fridge (?) are now.