Kitchen plan critique

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Wise people... please can you share your experienced kitchen design wisdom? We have a large room with a dining area at one end and U-shaped kitchen at the other. One of the ends is a peninsula/breakfast bar which we use a lot - mostly for drinking wine at - but serves well to separate the room into dining area and kitchen area.
It's just two adults, no kids, but we are short of storage. Not really short on worktop space though to be honest.

We have a design from a kitchen co and they immediately went with an Island. We had actually never considered one - just assumed we would refurbish with a similar layout and just gain some extra cm of units along the long wall. I am coming around to the idea based on how much extra storage we will get (and how nice the computer generated images look!), but DH is worried that 1m isn't enough of a gap and that we'll find it cramped and annoying.

I agree that 100cm feels like it might be a pinch when the dishwasher or oven are fully open, especially as there are drawers opposite the oven. I was going to mask it all out and put some chairs in the space to get a feel for it, but they will bump up against the peninsula (which is removed in the plan) so that will feel worse than it would really be.

So I'd love your thoughts on whether you think the plan makes sense. Should we fall for the lure of an island or stick with our 1990s breakfast bar and enjoy lots of empty floor space? Would increasing the gap around the island to 110cm be the solution?

Help!!

Initial thought, could you turn the island into a peninsular which starts under the stairs? You could still get seating, and would give storage.
And wouldn't cramp the rest of the kitchen.

We just had a new build house and kitchen and the regs required 1.2m between kitchen and island. We have a range snd I can't see how anyone could cope with less. ( bending down and opening doors etc for the range )
Where is your main fridge freezer?

Thanks both!

Cestunestilo that is very interesting about building regs. I have seen 120cm recommended a lot online, but not that it was now the requirement. Very interesting.
We have freestanding fridge and freezer in a utility right next to the kitchen, so a small under-counter fridge in the kitchen for milk and condiments is all we need.

Hadalifeonce we have a small sofa under the stairs and a dresser next to that, so couldn't have any units on that side.

It's all a bit blurry on my phone but it looks like you have 1000 on one side of the island and 1400 on the other. Is that right? Could you not just even it out a bit? Or otherwise your island could be 1m rather than 1.2m deep couldn't it?

I think you def have the space for it and they do add so much storage. I've been trying to squeeze one in to my kitchen plans but it just won't work so having a peninsular but my kitchen is smaller than yours. Only 4.16m deep

We had the same issue and in the end went for a peninsula with corner cupboards and cupboards along both sides. We have normal sized cupboards next to the wall on and then narrower ones at the outer edge that the worktop overhangs to create a breakfast bar.