Help please gurus: can I fit our desired kitchen design in this space?

5 years ago

Hi All.

My wife and I are coming to the end of a big project and the kitchen - which I know should have been resolved sooner - is still a cause for debate. We have decided where the services will go, but we're trying to make the space both more useful and (visually) interesting.

I've already agreed that my wife can have a lower peninsula with the sink within so she can take in the view. The main driver is (for me, as I'm very tall) for worktop food prep space that _isn't_ against a wall/cupboards and (of course) as a pure galley it would be quite/too wide so it needs to be broken up somehow in any case.

In short - can this style of "G" design (see photo) fit within the space (also, see photo), or are we trying to do too much? (The space is 3m 64cm reducing to 3m 44cm after the steels. The intent is to encroach slightly into the rear space. The open prep space would be on the bit in the middle. The range cooker will be on the left (where the yellow gas pipe is)).

How wide/narrow can the top-right "corridor" sensibly be? (to open up the middle)

Many thanks in advance all for any help/advice you can give.

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Jonathan
5 years ago
Personally I think you need a great independent kitchen designer. I think that you will conclude that there isn’t enough room for what you are planning and it would be difficult to work in.
I offer an alternative.
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Stephen
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5 years ago
Thank you so much Jonathan for taking time to draw something out.

Your alternative is close to a path we did consider, but the cooker is dual fuel and moving the gas to the r/h side now is a no-no. Moreover, the external wall is on the left side (as you look at the picture) and this is where the extractor must go given the way the beams run. Practical considerations eh!

Re Independent help. I agree, and we have gone down this path (with independent shops), but all the designs presented so far have been...uninspired.

Just to be absolutely clear, as I think my sketch is a little confusing, in my own example there are no units proposed down the right hand side; just a f/f at the nearest end. In this respect, I'm not quite sure where the space saving would be between your own and mine, but I'm likely just being a bit dense? (Do ignore the circle on the end of the "G"; that was a draft suggestion from my wife which I didn't erase from my sketch!)

Many thanks again.
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