In a small space a walk through corridor like the one you have next to the kitchen is a bit of a waste of space. it would have been better to put the kitchen at the far end with a dining table at the window seat. this way the living area would feel bigger. The utility room can stay with an entrance through the shower room. This is not a major change to do. Check out what we do, we specialise in floor plan design. We’re always happy to help if you need any further advice. If you’d like one of our floor plan design experts to help you optimise your space - visit our website: www.betterspace.co We offer a low, a fixed-price package that include tailored design, furniture layout recommendations and a professional floor-plan drawing as well as a 3D package which includes a 3D floor-plan and photo-realistic images that will help you visualise your new design. You can use promo code ‘houzz’ for a further 15% discount!

Okay, so here are my concerns with the current layout: with no space to the other side of the sink, where will the dirty/clean dishes go. In our house, we put dirty dishes on one side and when unloading the dishwasher, put stuff that still needs to be dried off on the other side. But you may well have another system of loading/unloading. Also, items that can't go into the dishwasher need to be somewhere when dirty and then put somewhere when clean. So, in my experience a sink needs counterspace on two sides. You do need somewhere to put appliances, like the toaster/kettle, coffee machine or maybe a stand mixer? If they are behind doors that aren't pocket doors, you'll be working in a 'confined space', which doesn't seem very practical. I've been through the whole thought process recently and we've decided to do without doors in front of the breakfast counter. Very happy with that decision. I'll post pics so you can see how it looks. We also have kitchen doors that lead to the pantry behind the tall bank of cupboards. We've put the ovens above each other, because one oven we already had and the other one is new and a slightly different design. This left space for two pull out larders, one either side of the ovens. Then we have a tall freezer, tall fridge, double doors to the pantry. We also have a separate coffee corner. Hope this helps.

Thanks for all the comments. Yes we have hired a designer already and she did 5 different design concepts for us- we narrowed it down to those two. I posted on here as sometimes it’s just really nice to get a completely fresh perspective and I know how knowledgeable and helpful everyone on here is 😄 I took the comments from here and we explored another 3 designs and have now settled on what we think is the best overall layout. We will still need to decide what exactly goes where in the kitchen (and I am sure I will be posting for help and opinions on that too) but for now we have decided how to zone the room 😄

He solution is to not have the fridge on the door wall….. don’t put anything there, then put the fridge and oven opposite the window.