Kitchen layout for narrow, longish, room

[BlackMoonlightGhostsandRoses]

Have a slightly challenging 'blank canvas' (sort of) for a new kitchen, but am struggling with layout. Basically it's an 18' x 10' room, with an additional 3' x 4' alcove. Sounds good but is proving tricky. Pictures on profile if anyone has any ideas?

We will be having a built-in oven/separate hob and free-standing fridge/freezer, but no absolutes other than that. Oh, other than we'd like to be able to eat in it as well as prep food.

All suggestions very gratefully received!

Could you explain a bit more about the space... The 5500 mm wall isn't open to a dining room I take it. The plan view doesn't suggest so but the image above confused me. You've got two external walls (A and B) and I'm guessing the aperture on the 1850 wall is door to hall? Alcove is under stairs?

If things are as I think, I'd want to square off the space in which to eat. I'd leave the wall-A end, including about a third of each adjoining wall, free of fitted units to have the table and chairs there. Then I'd do galley layout for the other 2 thirds: two straight runs of units facing each other. The one under the windows would be solely base units, and would turn corner into the alcove. I'd put hob and sink in that run.... Maybe washing machine tucked away in the alcove. Then opposite, I'd get all my high-level units and equipment: fridge freezer, built in oven, tall larder units if you want them. Maybe have a base unit+wall unit combination towards end, as it does give a bit of worktop space for toasters and kettles near the breakfast table. And if you feel you really need extra storage, do wall-units-as-base-units continuing the run into your eating area.

I think I would put units in a long run along the wall with no windows, possibly with the fridge on the short wall next to the alcove. I might partition off the alcove to house washing machine (and boiler if necessary) plus have a few shelves for bits and pieces or make it a walk-in larder. Large table in the middle of the room.

I think at 10 ft thevroom is too wide to have units down each wall.

Have a look at my profile, my kitchen is 2.5m wide and we extended it so it went from being 2.8m long to 6m long.

We put a 40cm deep breakfast bar down the other long wall and it is 2.1m long so we can eat in the kitchen but we tend to only eat breakfast in there and use our dining room for lunch and dinner.

The breakfast bar is fab for doubling up as worktop space.

My sister blocked a window off as it wasn't needed in her kitchen and it allowed her to utilise the wall. I don't know if this is an option for you, especially that tricky one in the alcove.

I agree with BrownSauceSandwich larder units hold an incredible amount of stuff and depending on how much space you have to the left of the window on wall A, you could run some larder units which would incorporate your oven along the wall with no windows on it.

Ideas - thank you!

BrownSauce - you're right, the 1850 wall does hold the door into the hall. The alcove isn't under the stairs though - there is currently a horrible small dank passageway to the back door that we are going to knock the partition on and 'cheat' the space into the kitchen instead. It does mean though that the wall doesn't slope. There's a loo under the stairs at the moment - I'd like to move it to the (soon to be) ex-corridor, but the corridor isn't long enough.

Lala - larder is a consideration.

Potterer - I love the way you've done the fridge & oven section - not sure if the window wall side on ours has space for it though - DH is checking.

That section of the kitchen is 600mm larder unit, 920mm wide space for the fridge freezer (with a 920mm high wall cabinet on its side to act as a flyover) then another 600mm larder cabinet which houses the microwave but it could of course house the oven. Total 2120mm.

We went with 600mm cabinets in the rest of the kitchen as we like symmetry. We have that exact alcove but on an angle which is the utility.

Will try to upload some more pics on my profile to show that. Your door to your hall is also in the same place as mine.

Doesn't fit in the space between the window and door. Well, it does, but then anything else on that wall is too tight.

On the plus side, we have now purchased some v nice white goods - salesman's face lit up when I said we needed everything, and then fell again when I started negotiating. - Think he thought we were of the 'oh, we'll just take it' variety...There are times I like surprising people.

OUr kitchen is a very similar shape. We have the dining table (rectangular) on the left of the door as you walk in. We have a French dresser opposite, on the right as you walk in. Then we have units along the wall after the dresser and along the back wall. On the other side we have a free standing fridge freezer and some open shelves. Works quite well. Other people in our street have the dining area towards the back and the units at the front.

Jelly - so does that mean your fridge/freezer and the shelves are on the same side as the table?

Yes. Although looking again at yours the backdoor is the other side, so our table,shelves and bin are along the wall before the back door.

Ah - more playing around on our part then - although it's starting to get easier as the new back-door and the re-instated pantry window went in today, so I can 'see' more of the space.