[quote NeedAHoliday2021]@M0RVEN microwave will be multi purpose Neff grill/oven/microwave above the oven. Bins are in the utility - family of 5 cannot fit our rubbish in one cupboard without needing to empty it twice a day.
Light switch needs to be by the entrance as you walk in the room so the side it’s on (right side as you walk in) is where there’s no space for it and the left is covered by the door as you open in. Behind that door (at a right angle) is a cupboard under the stairs with a full height door, then tall radiator, then door to utility. I can’t see where to move it to and neither could the designer.[/quote]
Re bins - you need at least a food waste bin in the kitchen near the sink and the dishwasher. Trust me - otherwise you will end up with a food waste caddy on the worktop. You are not going to walk into the utility room to scrape the plate of throw out a tea bag every time you put an item in the dishwasher.
You can put a light switch on the side of a wall or full height unit. Or on the architrave of the door. Have you asked an electrician if you can move it rather than a kitchen designer ?
Would it work better to rehang the kitchen door? I can’t tell from the photos.
It’s just it sounds like you are planning the whole kitchen around a light switch and they can usually be moved relatively easily. The labour costs to do this will be very small compared to the overall cost of your kitchen.
And it would give you a bigger larder if you could have it over on the right , where it looks like it could be 1200 wide.
And that area of worktop would be much more useful to you over to the left of the sink than where it is now on the other side of the kitchen, where it will end up being a dumping ground or for aesthetically pleasing objects ( depending on your style !).
Then the area to the left of the sink could be two larger wall units for crockery/ glasswear, cutlery drawers, your DW below and a bin under the sink . That would look neater and be more useful that that small wall cupboard.
If you do a lot of cooking and have a large family I’d have two dishwashers. Then you will never have dishes piled up on the worktop waiting for space and your kitchen will be tidier.
IME many kitchen designers get very caught up with the appearance of the kitchen eg tap must be exactly in the middle of the window and all units must be symmetrical. So they take that as a starting point and you end up with lots of small units and small areas of worktop ( more expensive and annoying to use ) just to make that happen.
You want fewer, larger units and bigger continuous areas of worktop.
You need a large single bowl sink , not two small ones. You won’t wash up much as you have a DW and presumably another sink in the utility room.
You’ve only got ? 500 of worktop to the left of your draining board, that’s not big enough for anything except a kettle.
I know it’s boring to think about now but the most important thing about a kitchen is functionality. You need a kitchen that works for the different tasks that you will do and some things together.
So for food prep you need worktop, knives, sink, fridge, food storage and food waste all close to each other.
For cooking you need oven, hob, microwave, pans / dishes and worktop.
Then dishwasher , sink, food waste, cutlery drawer and crockery storage.
Kettle, tap, mugs, tea, coffee, spoons.
You get the idea. Walk around your kitchen plan and do these imaginary tasks. Set it up in the garden with cardboard boxes/ random objects if you need to.
Have you thought about that corner base unit and what you are going to store in it ?