Help with kitchen plans, is there a better solution?

[aisteb]

Hi,

Could I pick your brains please, what would you do. I am attaching my drawing of the kiychen layout if it makes sense to anyone but me and our floor plan for context.

We will have a low window between the two runs of cabinets, and a low radiator under the window. The area in green and red will be a solid wall of tall units boxed in to the ceiling.

We are lowering the windowsill but we cannot move the window to the right or make it narrower and if we were to have standard depth cabinets on the left they would block the window by 2".

I really really want the hob where it is drawn so I could face the dining room as I cook.

If I was to move it to the middle of the peninsula to make all cabinets shallower on that side it would mean someone would be sitting too closer to the hob. Stripped areas are voids and the two at the peninsula will be seats. Also would mean routing the extractor to the opposite wall and would make the prep area on peninsula too small for my liking.

I don't want it on the other side to close to the sink and no working triangle.

I'm thinking of having just one shallower cabinet as I have drawn and to put hooks on that worktop recess to hang tea towels, to make use of that cut out bit.(screw hooks to wood worktop).

What would you do? Could have a breakfront worktop with just the cooked and the thin units protruding but not sure if that would look better?

Is there some option I am not seeing? TIA

I might have misunderstood your drawing, but it doesn’t look like you are facing the dining room as you cook? You’re facing a brick wall?

I don’t like the bit where #2 kicks out in front of the window, it looks messy. I’d make that whole run of units a straight line and put the hob on the peninsula.

Are you having the dining room extended out to the back wall of the kitchen and opening the two rooms up into one? If so, just have the peninsula run in a straight line instead of having a shaker base unit by the window.

It's a beautifully neat plan - what's the key and excuse me probably being dim, what's the scale? You've lots of space so have larger cupboards and pan drawer units for storage.

Shallower not shaker!

No, not extending the dining room, so yes facing a brick wall but still in the direction of the dining room and can see most of it and see the kids be up to no good or talk to whoever is sitting at the island :)

The kitchen is 2,4m wide and 4,8m long.

Would breakfront worktop look better as per attached?

We are also joining kitchen and dining room and our floorplan of that area is mirror image of your plan. Currently I am thinking between these two options in my plan. If you consider moving hob to opposite wall, it could be similar to the plan I have but yes you would loose facing dining room part.

Yes you could move it to the opposite wall as long as there’s enough room to keep it sufficient distance from the window and the sink (I believe you need 60cm clearance).

Or you could keep it in the current position and just choose a linear hob to fit the narrow cupboards?

Would you have enough space on peninsula to cook? I always seem to need more space around hob than sink for prep, but that could be just me, as I keep preping while cooking.

That's my issue if I move it to the middle of the peninsula I will have only 90cm on the wide part of the peninsula (to the left of the hob) and if I move it to the other side only about 60cm either side of the hob. And I like to spread out whilst I cook and to prep besides the hob, chopping something whist stirring something in the pan etc.

My gut feeling tells me that if we have a funny shaped worktop we will get used to it and not notice it after a while anyway. But also same gut feeling saying I am overlooking something

I looked at those linear hobs online and I don't know I feel about them. Reducing the depth of the peninsul would also mean loosing 2 cabinets of pan drawers as they don't come in reduced depth.

This is about to give me a nervous breakdown haha

Excuse my typos!

drawers come in about 6 different depths depending where your getting your kitch from

Looking at DIY kitchens and Units Online, they don't list 46cm deep drawers on their websites Also going for an inframe kitchen which generally has limited selection in terms of kitchen cabinets so maybe that's why I didn't see shallow drawers.

the depths are not because of the kitchen you select the depth is from the drawer runner available, infram also have the same depths open, you should call them.
most drawers are 450 deep anyway but if the unit is 460 you will need a 400 deep drawer

I think it looks fine. Unit near the window could be a small pull out with some bespoke drawers in, cut down from a 400 drawer unit. They should sell you just the fronts, you can get different length drawer boxes from other suppliers.

Also with a square edged worktop, have a nice S curve rather than a step it will look fine.

Or in fact just make it open shelves /slots for trays, chopping boards etc, then nothing to get obstructed by the radiator

Yeah it was meant to be a unit with open shelves as anything else will be obstructed by the radiator. Thanks NotMeNoNo, made me feel better about this. I really am overthinking it perhaps.