kitchen sinks 1 large bowl or two separate bowls - any feedback?
yvonne oliver
5 years ago
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yvonne oliver
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Proposed floor plans! Any suggestions/criticisms? Kitchen distances??
Comments (16)Well thank you everyone! I've been persuaded that the 100mm gap is worth losing a fraction of space from the living room, so have implemented this change. Also have moved the hob onto the island to make it more sociable when cooking. It's interesting hearing people say about the dishwasher being too far away, as currently we have to walk around a peninsular when you first get into the kitchen to get to the dishwasher (as we haven't moved it) so in actual fact, I think it'll feel closer than we are used to, so I don't think that's something we'd necessarily change. Plus it's only 4 steps from the DW to where the end of the island will I think be. @Townhouse - thanks for the offer, but unfortunately nowhere near harrogate most of the time, but will bear it in mind if we're up that way! @Laura, thanks for getting back to me, I've changed it to the 100mm on the "working" side of the kitchen. I think you're right, and your family has height I could only dream of, when I'm only 5'3! and J & Townhouse, I've also been considering the benefits of having the fridge/freezer closer to the island, and having the pantry at the end. Part of me can't decide what is more useful to have closest! And yes, with the island I wasn't planning on having units on both sides the whole way along, to allow space for chairs/legs to tuck under :)...See MoreUtility/Kitchen design feedback
Comments (23)@arc3d I dug out the very first design we had drawn up for the ground floor and interestingly the kitchen space isn't too dissimilar from your proposal, with some adjustment to door placement. It would be very nice to have enough room to clearly separate seating from dining furniture and I'm not sure it's possible in the current plans without doing as you suggest. Referring to our existing plans, my thinking was to move bench seating with dining table (extendable 6-8 person) to the party wall and seating to bay window area as @rinked suggested. Hopefully that would free up space for a small 2-seater sofa facing windows and couple of chairs with a side/coffee table. Note, the reason we introduced a double step-in to the external wall was because although not captured in the plans, the passageway tapers towards the house and we want to maintain a 700mm to run bicycles and wheelie bins to the rear. I think a side window in the kitchen wall was omitted because it faces our neighbours brick wall; maybe we could add one retrospectively at head height to the planning application, to reflect the side window in the extension: @rosemonde Below are the submitted plans for the other floors and external elevations for comparison to your house (- ignore the stair direction on 1st floor; this will be flipped but there's a separate application for the loft under PD so the plan here shows the current stairs). I should also add that we plan to change the walk-in wardrobe in 2nd floor plans so that the entrance is opposite the en-suit, with drawers along length of eaves and wardrobes along length of partition; we feel this will give us more bed placement options (e.g. facing the rear window) and make the walk-in section less cluttered. Our current layout is awful (we recently purchased the house knowing we'd do this work); the kitchen is where utility is planned, there's a horrible lean-to conservatory where extension is planned and a similarly nasty lean-to utility to the side, the current bathroom is oddly split into a bath and separate shower room (with two adjacent toilets split by the partition) and loft space is a bedroom with non-reg stairs, floor joists and ropey dormer window. We're making the study 2m wide as well to make it a more practical size (it's currently 1.4m) and potentially use it as an overspill 5th single bedroom if necessary: Hope this helps you with your own plans and feel free to PM me if you want further info :-)...See MoreHelp deciding between two kitchen plans please
Comments (12)So.. tweaked your second layout a bit to try and improve the looks and lines. Hence the island is smaller. Plus side: the dishwasher won't be such a triphazard when open. With kids walking around (aka suddenly behind you ninja style) you want some freedom of movement. Upper units on the sink wall. Free hanging range hood above the stove (or built in oven and cooktop?). Symmetrical drawers alongside stove. Plates, bowls, cutlery next to sink, close to dishwasher. Trash bin below sink. Tip: Pick 3 drawer type base units, add a blind shallow drawer in the lowest drawer of the 91cm unit, great for small stuff. The drawer is too deep to fill up anyway (will become too heavy)....See MoreSink in island - two dishwashers?
Comments (11)Given the enormous bifold I don’t think you have any reason to believe a smaller roof light would be insufficient. Separately you might need a creative solution to having no ceiling over the island to put electric lights into. Because at night you will need light in your working/socialising area of your kitchen you might want to invest in a portable lamp- these amazing miners lamps are available online and have a solar panel on top to take advantage of your oversized roof lantern during the day....See More
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5 years agoThis thread makes me smile, my husband and I argued so much about kitchen sinks it resulted in separate bedrooms for a night! We came up with a solution, we bought the blanco silgranite subline sink in pearl grey which has a small step up so you can rinse vegetables in the step but do large dishes in the sink. Most things go in the dishwasher but the things that don’t are often the large items that need a good soak! We have an insinkerator food waste disposal underneath which is useful too.
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