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2 plans for a kitchen - which is better?

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 19:38

They are on my profile 2 floorplans and 4 views of each

DH would like to watch telly while washing up - I don't like to wash up so I'm in the mood to appease him

But the other one is better isn't it?

Can you improve either at all? Do I have to go conventional?

Help me please?

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 09/02/2012 20:36

Not you- him!

Ok - you have my creative juices going.

So is this your main eating room or is it just for family meals?

Do you need the peninsular or is it just to break it up visually?

How much free space is there on wall B?

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 20:41

Main/only eating room

We currently share - so this will be our space - just 3 of us

Wall B is 30 cms wall 1.8 french doors then a built in bookcase to hide all the pipes

I don't need a peninsular but I don't want a corridor - DH carries baskets of wood through it 2/3 times a day in the winter

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ImpOfThePerverse · 09/02/2012 20:46

Does it have to be either exactly?

The shape of 1 looks better but I'd put the sink against the wall not on the peninsula.

I'd drop the peninsula completely in 2 so the table wasn't so boxed in.

Overall I think you'll get a better, more user friendly kitchen if you have less in it, I'm not sure there's really enough room for a peninsula at all.

Where's your current kitchen and why are you moving it to this room (if it's not too much of a nosey question)? Smile

EverybodysSnowyEyed · 09/02/2012 20:48

I was just wandering if you could do one of those half round table/half counter thingys at the end so that it doesn't feel like you are compromising the kitchen for the dining table

Personally, I don't think it will feel like a corridor without the peninsular

How about instead of the peninsular getting a butchers block. I'm getting one that is the same height as my counters with the same top so it can be an extension to existing work surface, storage and pushed away when not needed (against 15 and 16 in your pic)

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 20:54

Imp it doesn't have to be either.......but I'm stuck

Everybody - bit worried about the butchers block won't it always be in the way against the fridge? & I'm not sure exactly what you mean about the circular counter thingie - I have the table already

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minipie · 09/02/2012 20:55

Go with option 2.

Change the position of the TV. Put your TV on the wall immediately to the right of the sink (under wall cabinets numbered 13/14 on your plan, and above the dishwasher).

Mount it on an angleable arm or bracket.

That way, DH can angle it towards him when he washes up. When the kids want to watch from the table, you can pull it all the way out (so it's as far out as the front of the dishwasher) and angle it towards the table. Then afterwards it folds back neatly against the wall.

ta da!

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 20:56

Sorry everybody I was on the wrong kitchen

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 20:56

Oh minipie - possible, very possible

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 20:58

When I said "Sorry everybody I was on the wrong kitchen" I meant EverybodysSnowyEyed rather than everybody iyswim Blush

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ImpOfThePerverse · 09/02/2012 20:58

I keep trying to rearrange them in my head.

With option 2 would you be able to have the peninsula in front of cupboards 6&17? It wouldn't box in the table or cut off cooking/washing/preparing areas but might be too sticky-outy for the fridge door.

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 21:00

No because the door from the lounge would hit it - I think anyway

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 21:01

You can play with the Ikea planner if you want......

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TheMouseRanUpTheClock · 09/02/2012 21:01

Yes the pics helped, made me more certain that option two was better.

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 21:02

I took them down as it makes our house look a mess Blush

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TheMouseRanUpTheClock · 09/02/2012 21:04

You have a lot of possessions, nicely stored in pleasant baskets. What is the stuff on the ceiling?

ImpOfThePerverse · 09/02/2012 21:06

It's meant to be a bit messy in the 'before' pics, it makes the 'after' look even better by contrast! Grin

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 21:14

We have material drapes to keep it cooler in the summer & warmer in the winter

Remember it is a business space.......which actually makes it worse Blush

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 21:15

The only thing I am fixed on is the colour of the walls (which oddly enough is the colour of my bedroom walls)

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ImpOfThePerverse · 09/02/2012 21:21

How about kitchen 1 but with the cooker in position 2&3, the sink where the cooker is in the picture and a telly on a bracket where 19 is? Maybe with the peninsula a little bit smaller?

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 21:32

The sink has to stay on that side & I don't think we could see the telly from the table that way

But thinking laterally is good

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 21:47

From the door to the garden:

TV
Dishwasher/Wall unit
Sink
Cupboard/Wall unit
Drawers/Wall unit
Cooker/cooker hood
Drawers/Wall unit

With the fridge freezer behind the table, then 2 x 600 units/Wall units - drawers prob with the narrower unit at the end

Pictures to follow?

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 09/02/2012 21:57

look forward to seeing them!

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 22:08

They are a bit fuzzy - but I think you get the jist of it

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 09/02/2012 22:17

why do you need a double sink?

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KatyMac · 09/02/2012 22:19

'Cos DH washes & rinses - washing up takes ages when we go on holiday (caravan) & he only has one sink

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