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kitchen layout, prep sink, flow... please help!

7 years ago
Guys, would really like to hear your opinion In one of the most popular subjects here... kitchen layout!
So, this is a rebuilt and unfortunately I have to work with the space we have and that’s a bit narrow...
We were able to recess the fridge and that is giving us some extra space to go with a pretty big one, but we are concerned about the island.
I’ve read multiple threads here, we have considered a peninsula, but yet we felt the triangle would be too big, and as I do all the cooking in the house, I like the idea of isolating the prep area from the cleaning area, so we went with the a skinnier island (3’), but that would be a problem without the prep sink...
So my questions to you are the following:
1)prep sink position - should it be moved to the other corner and face the main sink so that we have more landing space from the fridge? Or keep it as in the floorplan? Also the sink size should be 15-18” max to have space next to it to work with a chopping board.
2)kitchen is going to be 140” wide with the fridge fully recessed (I know the drawing shows it sticking out, but it won’t), so we’ll have approx 38” in the two sides of the island which is narrow but manageable in our opinion, I wouldn’t go any thinner with the island (wish it could be 40”) and the peninsula wasn’t approved either so I wanted to hear your opinion on how it is.
3) dishwasher may be moved to the other side of the main sink to attend both the prep and the main sink - what do you think? Ahh, u/c microwave is 24” not 30”...

Anyway, I appreciate your feedback and I’m ok with any of them, I’m not locked in this design, I actually feel more like we are in a deadlock and was hoping to have some support from the outside!
Thanks a lot!

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